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Gloria Hammond by Berry Creek, at the back of her property in Monroe County. She said the creek has changed a lot in the decades since the Plant Scherer Ash Pond 1 was created. “I don't see my mussel shells that I used to see on the sand,” she said. “I don't hear the frogs at night down here.”

What’s legal for closing Georgia’s coal ash ponds might hinge on one word: Infiltration

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
April 15, 2024
A map shows the location of the cloud-connected surveillance cameras belonging to Bibb County, as seen in the control room of the Bibb County Sheriff's Office. When their owners agree to add their private cameras, those will show up as tiny red dots.

Bibb County law enforcement wants residents to share their doorbell cameras

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
April 1, 2024
People scatter hundreds of sets of unclaimed cremated human remains around a small garden at Macon's Rose Hill Cemetery during a short ceremony on Thursday, March 28, 2024.

Hundreds of cremated remains of unclaimed people scattered in Macon ceremony

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
March 29, 2024
Macon-Bibb County Pedestrian Safety Review Board pamphlet and hat.

New software will help identify roads where speeding is a problem, Gray Highway to get pedestrian crossing 

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
March 19, 2024
Candidates for Bibb County sheriff, from left, Chris Patterson, Ron Rodgers, DeAndre Hall, Sheriff David Davis, Marshall Hughes and Chris Paul sit for a March 2024 forum during their runs for the office.

Candidates for Bibb County sheriff debate the roots of violent crime in Macon

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
March 12, 2024
United Way of Central Georgia's "United to End Homelessness" initiative director Jake Hall gives census volunteer Heather Sims a hand as she wends her way through a new to the census takers homeless encampment in Macon.

Middle Georgia homeless coalitions seek partners for new federal program

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
February 27, 2024
From left, Macon-Bibb County Fire Department Chief Shane Edwards, Bibb County Sheriff David Davis and Macon-Bibb County Mayor Lester Miller during the announcement Monday of efforts to hire part time patrol deputies.

Bibb County has fewer than half the patrol officers it had before consolidation. Why?

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
February 13, 2024
Mika Shills crosses Spring Street in Macon with the red light going her way by about 20 yards from the crosswalk a few hours after another pedestrian was hit and killed near the same spot. Shills is careful about crossing Macon roadways on foot but says nowhere is really safe to do it. "They'll speed up and try to hit you out here," she said.

U.S. DOT declines Macon’s proposal to fix one of its deadliest roads – again

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
January 12, 2024
A Bibb County sheriff deputy's car with blue lights activated near a pedestrian crosswalk on Jeffersonville Road in Macon.

Man hit by car dies weeks after crash, coroner says

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
January 8, 2024
A small fire re-ignited with hand sanitizer as an accelerate warms Conta Price's feet on a 28 degree morning in Macon in late November. Price said depending on who you talk to on the street, you will hear maybe Macon's Salvation Army shelter is open to single adults, or maybe it isn't.

As winter sets in, Macon-Bibb County struggles to shelter homeless people

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
December 13, 2023
Medical student Emily Hartley from Reynolds, Ga., talks to her neighbors at the ribbon-cutting for the Mercer Medicine clinic in Taylor County, bringing local health care to the rural area for the first time in a decade.

After sitting empty for over a decade, a health clinic in Taylor County is opened again with help

Sofi Gratas, Georgia Public Broadcasting
December 4, 2023
A shipping container, part of The Medical Center's temporary medical unit, gets prepared for transport to Atlanta in November 2023.

Shipping containers at Macon’s Medical Center depart for downtown Atlanta housing project

Sofi Gratas, Georgia Public Broadcasting
November 20, 2023
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