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The Medical Center, Atrium Navicent Health

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The Medical Center, Atrium Navicent Health

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A crew employed by Stafford Construction works on a new home on Ward Street in Macons 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] Macon has millions for affordable housing development. A new nonprofit will decide how it's spent.

April 6, 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

February 28, 2023
Atrium Health Navicent Board of Directors Chairperson Starr Purdue holds a special edition of the Macon Telegraph and News that featured coverage of the Great Snow of 73.

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

February 28, 2023
New facade at Davis Village.

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

February 22, 2023
Cirrus Academy students work together on an art project.

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

February 17, 2023
little richard house

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

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.

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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.

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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.

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The Mentors Project of Bibb Countys Executive Director June ONeal takes blankets to a family of 8 living in a south Macon motel room in late 2022. ONeal 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’

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

November 16, 2022
A Central High School student hugs a column of bubbles in the sensory room on Oct. 25, 2022.

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

October 27, 2022
mulberry market

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

October 3, 2022
A look at the inside the Bibb County Librarys 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

September 28, 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

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.

February 1, 2022
Georgia Department of Corrections cadets and trainers before the 2010 ribbon cutting for the departments 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

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 publics 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?

November 23, 2021
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