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There are also Macon residents who chose to ignore the signs. A pedestrian is shown after continuing through the roadwork in the rain. Photo credit: Angel Colquitt

Interactive map shows where pedestrians fatalities occur in Macon

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
October 17, 2024
Members of Keep Macon-Bibb Beautiful, the United Way of Central Georgia and community volunteers walk along Watkins Lane while participating in a Walking School Bus audit for Burdell-Hunt Elementary School Tuesday.

East Macon students tread hazardous paths to school. Community wants to change that

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
September 26, 2024
Janice McCrary uses the new medianettes on Gray Highway one sweltering afternoon in August 2024. The 59-year-old lives in an apartment at McAfee Towers and was on the way back from eating lunch at Dairy Queen.

Macon-Bibb County gets millions to fix one of its deadliest roads

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
September 9, 2024
Speed Bump

County could remove roadblocks to adding speed bumps to local streets

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
August 26, 2024
Janice McCrary uses the new medianettes on Gray Highway one sweltering afternoon in August 2024. The 59-year-old lives in an apartment at McAfee Towers and was on the way back from eating lunch at Dairy Queen.

One of Macon’s deadliest highways is made a bit safer

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
August 13, 2024
Rodney Mason collects scoops of soil to test from the vacant lot in Kings Park Subdivision where he will grow indigenous cultivars in a neighborhood garden.

Nonprofit using community gardens to reintroduce African food culture

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
August 13, 2024
Classmates watch as Mercer University student Grace Gasaway fits a functional near-infrared spectroscopy cap onto student Parth Patel's head. Unlike the stillness required for an MRI machine, researchers can map brain activity using fNIRS while participants are moving around, making it ideal to use on young kids.

Scientists have cutting edge technology to scan kids’ brains. But it wasn’t built for all heads

Sofi Gratas, Georgia Public Broadcasting
July 1, 2024
Attorneys and representatives for correctional health care provider, Wellpath, and for the state attended a hearing over the lawsuit at the Fulton County Superior Court on Monday, June 24, 2024. The new health care provider for Georgia prisons will start July 1.

Georgia prisons will soon have a new healthcare provider after contract was brought into question

Sofi Gratas, Georgia Public Broadcasting
June 28, 2024
Kids at the Boys and Girls Club on Anthony Road in Macon get their second helpings of fresh fruit and vegetables through the Happy Helpings summer food program recently.

Hungry Georgia kids now have another way to find meals this summer

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
June 27, 2024
A man was hit by a car at Cotton Avenue and Cherry Street in early June.

Macon wants to add ‘teeth’ to rules keeping downtown sidewalks clear

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
June 18, 2024
U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff gets a demonstration of a hydraulic stretcher in one of the new Atrium Health Navicent ambulances from EMT Josh Humphrey and paramedics Kerry Sanders, back, and Jeannie Middlebrooks on Monday, April 22, 2024.

Atrium receives $600k to purchase new ambulances for Macon, Middle Georgia counties

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
April 22, 2024
A vacant home in Pleasant Hill exemplifies the persistent problem of blight in Macon neighborhoods.

How Heirs’ Property is Affecting Blight in Macon

Eliza Moore, Reg Murphy Center
April 18, 2024
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