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Dr. Matthew Jerles performs in the 2019 Macon Civic Club show at the Grand Opera House. This years production was canceled due to COVID-19.

[Photo] Cost of Covid: Civic Club show cancelled but the dough must go on

February 10, 2021
Furniture and other belongings sit at the curb after the Magistrate Court Sheriff’s office supervised a court ordered eviction on Del Park in late January 2019.

[Photo] Evictions resume in Bibb County despite some federal protections

September 18, 2020

[Video] A woman’s place is in the kitchen for inmates at the Bibb County Jail

February 22, 2019
Edwin Pierre-Lewis, a native of Haiti who attends graduate school at the University of Georgia, uses a buck call as he hunts deer west of Athens. He learned to hunt as part of the Field to Fork program and has become a mentor, now teaching others how to hunt.

[Photo] Hunting enthusiasts fear the sport is dying. Can ‘locavores’ save the age-old pastime?

December 10, 2018
Barbara Hatcher, who lives alone in McAfee Towers, enjoys a lunch at her apartment brought by a Meals on Wheels staffer. Hatcher says the human contact is at least as nutritious as the crab salad, fruit and chocolate milk meal.

[Photo] Hundreds wait to receive a hot meal, but it’s uncertain when it might arrive

August 13, 2018
Alexander II Magnet School kindergartener Rylee Davis, left, says she loves spaghetti as she goes through the lunch line.

[Photo] All Bibb County students eat for free. That could be in jeopardy

September 3, 2018
Wesley Dawson, left, and Preston Evans bag bread for sacks of groceries to be given to clients at Loaves and Fishes. Screened clients receive over 3,000 bags of food every year in the program

[Photo] Hundreds wait to receive a hot meal, but it’s uncertain when it might arrive

August 13, 2018
Alexander II Magnet School kindergartener Rylee Davis, left, says she loves spaghetti as she goes through the lunch line.

[Photo] All Bibb County students eat for free. That could be in jeopardy

September 3, 2018
Sharon Augustine, chair of teacher education, Mercer University’s Macon campus

[Photo] Want students to succeed? Hire more teachers who look like them, report says

October 20, 2017
People passing by the Macon Transit Authority bus stop in front of the Medical Center, Navicent Health, on July 5, dont bother a suitcase left there. The Macon-Bibb County commissioners cut funds for indigent care to the hospital in the most recent revised budget

[Photo] Taxes, paying for the poor and county funding: How do Macon’s two big hospitals compare?

July 12, 2018
New York Times Magazine investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones presents a keynote address during a program addressing segregation in schools Monday

[Photo] Segregated schools failing our children, keynote speaker says

March 14, 2017
In this January 2017 file photo, Frank Ringwood, left, and Nigel Johnson place the Hay House Lord Byron window in the ``Secret Room after removing it from the staircase hallway where it was damaged by straight line winds. Johnson said it would be taken to their facilities in New York for repair.

[Photo] Rare piece of Macon’s famed Hay House returns soon

February 8, 2018
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