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[Photo] Billed as an exclusive, high-achieving public school, ACE struggles with lack of diversity, finances

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
May 31, 2023
Academy for Classical Education Principal Laura Perkins, second from right, during a recent meeting of the school's governing board.

[Photo] Finances in flux, future uncharted for ACE

May 31, 2023
Academy for Classical Education

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

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
November 8, 2023
The Medical Center, Atrium Navicent Health

The Medical Center, Atrium Navicent Health

A crew employed by Stafford Construction works on a new home on Ward Street in Macon's Pleasant Hill neighborhood. Pleasant Hill is one of the places carved out for work by a new, federally funded affordable housing non-profit group of which Stafford Construction is a member.

[Photo] 2024 Preview – Part 3: Guitar-shaped airport, new plan to attract business, pedestrian safety challenges and the fate of state charter schools

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow and Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
January 2, 2024
Items from a 1973 time capsule are displayed after it was opened at Atrium Health Navicent hospital on Feb. 28, 2023.

[Photo] Coins, stamps, the Great Snow of '73: Macon hospital's time capsules offer a glimpse of the past

February 28, 2023
Items from a 1973 time capsule are displayed after it was opened at Atrium Health Navicent hospital on Feb. 28, 2023.

[Photo] Coins, stamps, the Great Snow of ’73: Macon hospital’s time capsules offer a glimpse of the past

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
February 28, 2023
New facade at Davis Village.

[Photo] ‘We can’t build fast enough.’ Macon Housing Authority is funding, upgrading affordable housing

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
February 22, 2023
Cirrus Academy students work together on an art project.

[Photo] State charter schools in Bibb County flagged in report

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
February 17, 2023
Peter Givens stands near the entrance of a pedestrian bridge over Interstate 75 that connects the west an east sides of the Pleasant Hill neighborhood. The neighborhood was severed in the '60s with the construction of Interstate 75.

[Photo] GDOT promised better in Pleasant Hill after cutting it in half it with I-75. Has the state kept its word?

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
February 7, 2023
Peter Givens stands near the entrance of a pedestrian bridge over Interstate 75 that connects the west an east sides of the Pleasant Hill neighborhood. The neighborhood was severed in the '60s with the construction of Interstate 75.

Peter Givens leading a bicycle tour of the Pleasant Hill neighborhood in Macon where he was raised and to which he returned after a career in New York.

Peter Givens leading a bicycle tour of the Pleasant Hill neighborhood in Macon where he was raised and to which he returned after a career in New York.

The Mentors Project of Bibb County's Executive Director June O'Neal takes blankets to a family of 8 living in a south Macon motel room in late 2022. O'Neal says her program needs new mentors to fulfill its core goals.

[Photo] More mentors needed in Bibb County where ‘the streets call the children all the time’

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
January 10, 2023
A desire line on Pio Nono Avenue in Macon after it passes under Interstate 75. The spot is one of the most deadly for pedestrians in Macon.

[Photo] Hit-and-run pedestrian deaths have doubled in Bibb County this year

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
November 16, 2022
Central High School senior Gabe Deegan watches assistant teacher and parapro Madelynn Washington hold a stream of optical fiber lights in the school's new sensory room on Oct. 25, 2022.

[Photo] Every Bibb County School will soon have a sensory room. What are they for?

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
October 27, 2022
mulberry market

[Photo] Food Fight: Lawsuit imperils future of Wednesday farmers market

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
October 3, 2022
A look at the inside the Bibb County Library's new building at 5494 Forsyth Road. Friends of the Library spent months cleaning the building and organizing donated books to be sold.

[Photo] Bibb County’s newest library branch taking shape

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
September 28, 2022
Gerald and Debbie Miles enjoy time on the porch swing of their Warner Robins home after sharing how their lives changed after Gerald began electroconvulsive therapy to treat debilitating depression. Debbie said they shared their story about the treatment “to help other people” by letting people know about the treatment and removing stigmas associated with mental illness.

[Photo] Middle Georgia hospital uses electricity to treat depression

October 7, 2022
Two people on foot, one with a walker, negotiate the dirt path on Pio Nono Avenue in Macon after it passes under Interstate 75. The spot is one of the most deadly for pedestrians in Macon with five people killed within about a quarter mile of it since 2006.

[Photo] Pedestrian safety is their goal but Macon’s deadliest streets are out of their control

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
May 18, 2022
Georgia Department of Corrections Commissioner Timothy C. Ward, second from right, after the March meeting of the Board of Corrections in Forsyth.

Federal investigators are asking the court to force transparency on Georgia prisons

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
April 8, 2022
Chiquita Dinkins teaches a unit on photosynthesis to students at Northeast High School in Macon. Dinkins, who was head cheerleader at Northeast as a student in the 1980s, is one of 18 alumni teachers at the school.

[Photo] Bibb teachers have wish lists. The school district now has a way to fulfill them.

Laura Corley, Civic Fellow
February 1, 2022
Georgia Department of Corrections cadets and trainers before the 2010 ribbon cutting for the department's training facility and offices in Forsyth. A labor strike of the incarcerated would come about month later. GDC lost over 2,000 correctional officers in the following year.

[Photo] What’s behind the understaffing at Georgia prisons? Ask the staff

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
January 26, 2022
The trash was placed at the curb on Laura Ann Place off of Forest Hill Road earlier this month.

Public weighs in on $500M in proposed bonds for novel recycling plant in Macon. Most oppose it.

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
November 30, 2021
Macon-Bibb County Mayor Lester Miller answers the public's questions monthly. Send inquiries to mercerccj@gmail.com.

[Photo] Mayor Miller explains property tax cuts, redistricting, bond financing, blight

November 29, 2021
Students eat lunch recntly at Rutland High School. Rutland High and Rutland Middle School are the most racially balanced schools in the Bibb County school system.

[Photo] Fewer students attend Bibb County schools. What will it mean for the future?

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
November 23, 2021
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