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New artwork will be added to Macon's Bicentennial Park before it opens in 2025.

2025 Preview 5 — National Park update, SPLOST plans, new downtown store

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
January 3, 2025
Macon Arts Alliance board member Justin Andrews gives the board a preview of the Otis Redding Center for the Arts that will open in March.

2025 Preview 4 — Otis Redding Center opens, Sardis Church red light, Mayor seeks 3rd term

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
January 1, 2025
Macon Arts Center owner Anthony Kirkland plans to build a movie studio on the campus of the old Whiskey River nightclub on Pio Nono Avenue.

2025 Preview 3 — New movie studio, closing schools, higher water bills, safer streets

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
December 30, 2024
Macon-Bibb County Mayor Lester Miller answers the public's questions each month. Send yours to mercerccj@gmail.com.

Mayor wants new downtown convention center, paved roads and a third term in office 

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
December 27, 2024
The old Hilton hotel was known more recently as the Ramada Crowne Plaza, as seen in 2012 from the intersection of Second Street and Walnut Street in Macon.

2025 Preview 2 — New downtown gateway, industrial pathways for students

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
December 26, 2024
Superman's alter ego, Clark Kent, center left, walks through the Daily Planet newsroom, which is actually the first floor of Macon's Terminal Station. The blockbuster movie opens in July.

2025 Preview 1 – Macon stars in ‘Superman,’ could lure World Cup soccer greats

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
December 24, 2024
Nimsy Gomez tries on a knitted shawl while going through clothes donated by United Farm Workers to a community of Latino laborers still recovering from Hurricane Helene east of Tifton. People were given the basics: food, hygiene products, baby formula and, with winter coming, warm clothes to help them endure the cold that will seep into trailer homes.

Georgia farm workers feel the burden of disaster recovery

Sofi Gratas, Georgia Public Broadcasting
December 19, 2024
Macon-Bibb calls for SPLOST election, approves grants

Macon-Bibb calls for SPLOST election, approves grants

Liz Fabian, Civic Jouralism Senior Fellow
December 17, 2024
The Georgia Public Safety Foundation will add a historical marker to the Macon grave of Georgia's first fallen state patrolman, William Frederick Black Jr.

Ga. Public Safety Foundation to mark Macon grave of first slain trooper

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
December 16, 2024
Kennnesaw State University architecture students present their final designs for a mixed use development in Macon's Greenwood Bottom neighborhood to residents and community leaders.

For Kennesaw State students, the first step in revitalizing Macon’s Greenwood Bottom is listening

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
December 11, 2024
At its Dec. 9 meeting, the Macon-Bibb Planning & Zoing Commission approved revisions to the Comprehensive Land Development Resolution that regulates zoning.

Downtown dog hotel approved after P&Z changes regulations

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
December 10, 2024
A photo overlooks Rosehill and Oak Ridge Cemetery on November 11, 2024.

Histories Within Rose Hill Cemetery

Karaline Houston
December 10, 2024
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