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Standing on a trolley loaded with representatives from land banks across Georgia, River Edge Behavioral Health CEO Cass Hatcher points to the construction site where a tiny home development for people with disabilities is being built. The tour of housing developments in Macon on Wednesday was part of the annual Georgia Association of Land Bank Authorities summit.

Georgia aims to grow workforce housing amid statewide housing shortage

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
December 8, 2023
Danielle Jones, Homeless & Foster Care Liaison for the Bibb County School District, was named the 2023 recipient of the Sandra Neese Lifetime Achievement Award. The award was announced in early November at the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youths annual conference in New Orleans.

‘I love the work’: Homeless liaison for Bibb public schools receives national recognition

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
November 28, 2023
A former office building at 691 Cherry St., which was the Home Federal Building and, later, the Georgia Federal Building at the corner of First Street. The structure could become an apartment building in coming years.

How a new hotel, apartments, a restaurant and a health club may be coming to downtown Macon

Laura Corley, The Macon Newsroom and Joe Kovac Jr., The Telegraph
November 17, 2023
The State Charter Schools Commission at a regular meeting in Atlanta.

More charter schools are planned in Georgia. What will it mean for students outside Atlanta?

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
November 8, 2023
June ONeal, executive director of the Mentors Project, puts out blankets at her house on Nov. 4, 2021. The blankets were distributed to students in need.

What do Bibb County parents need? These Macon nonprofits want to help

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
October 31, 2023
Heaven Upshaw-Peters, foreground, and the rest of the graduates in the Bibb County Teaching as a Profession program, during their Signing Day ceremony recently.

Bibb County public schools’ graduation rate is the highest in a decade

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
October 12, 2023
A screenshot from Bibb County School Districts new anonymous web portal for tips regarding student safety.

Anonymous Tips Now Accepted by Bibb County School District

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
October 5, 2023
Bibb Schools Superintendent Dan Sims, background, speaking in Tattnall Square Park recently during the first of a number of after school fairs held to promote school attendance.

Bibb School finance committee begins ‘very important work’ behind closed doors

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
September 29, 2023
Bruce Elementary School Principal Kizzie Lott endures one of about 20 dumps of water on her head courtesy of students with good school attendance. It was one of the periodic rewards Lott gives students to incentivize them and their parents to prioritize school attendance.

Bibb schools grapple with spike in chronically absent students

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
September 21, 2023
Staff and board members of the State Charter Schools Commission visited Cirrus Academy on Aug. 23, 2023, to discuss the schools eligibility for renewal of its charter contract. The current two-year probationary charter expires in June 2024.

Cirrus Academy faces new scrutiny from State Charter Schools Commission

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
September 20, 2023
Robert Lee Cohen, 87, takes the MTA paratransit bus to a dialysis center in east Macon three times weekly. Cohen moved to Macon from Buffalo, New York, in 2021. Here you got to have a car to get around, Cohen said. The new technology will call Cohen before the MTA bus arrives so he doesnt have to wait in the elements. It would make things easier, Cohen said of the bus tracking system.

Real-time tracking by phone, Wi-Fi coming to Macon Transit Authority buses

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
September 11, 2023
Cirrus Academy governing board members conduct a meeting Aug. 29, 2023, via Zoom as staff and members of the public are present in-person.

Violations of state charter contract threaten future of Cirrus Academy

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
September 1, 2023
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