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The grave of Blanche Haywood. Until recent work by preservationists in the historically African American Oak Ridge Cemetery, the grave of the woman born in the 1840s was completely hidden by the understory.

[Photo] Unerasing the history of Macon's Oak Ridge African American cemetery

August 24, 2024
Jan Smith hugs members of her legal team after the final hearing before Georgia's Public Service Commission on the issue of whether or not a local railroad can use eminent domain to take rural land which has been in her husband's family since the 1920s.

[Photo] Sparta residents and the railroad they oppose get a final hearing

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
August 8, 2024
Students leave the Earth lodge, thought to be used historically as a council space, at the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historic Park in Macon in 2022.

[Photo] Oklahoma's Muscogee (Creek) Nation prepares to co-manage Georgia's first National Park

May 7, 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.

[Photo] Hundreds of cremated remains of unclaimed people scattered in Macon ceremony

March 29, 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.

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

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
March 12, 2024
Randy Bedingfield plays the piano during a November reception at the Daybreak Day Center, which offers an array of services to the unhoused in Macon. Daybreak is privately funded but a Georgia Senate bill would audit public funds spent on such services.

[Photo] A Georgia Senate bill asks for audits of homeless services. Why?

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
March 8, 2023
Danielle Jones is the McKinney-Vento liaison for the Bibb County School District where she and a small staff work within the limits of the law to provide stability for homeless students.

[Photo] Housing aid doesn’t always reach homeless youth. Here’s how educators aim to help

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
February 1, 2023
The cafeteria at Bibb County's Rutland High school in 2017.

[Photo] Bibb Schools enrollment hits five-year high

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
November 10, 2022
Tonithia Fernandez holds one of her two cats while also trying to pack up and move her home as a Macon-Bibb County excavator clears out another part of the encampment where she lived until Tuesday.

[Photo] Macon-Bibb County demolishes the same homeless encampment for the second time since June

Grant Blankenship, GPB News
August 17, 2022
Bibb County Schools Superintendent Curtis Jones is set to retire June 30, 2022, ending his seven-year tenure. The 67-year-old sat down with The Macon Newsroom and Georgia Public Broadcasting for an exit interview at Vineville Academy on June 7.

[Photo] 2022 in review: A look back at Bibb County education news

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
December 23, 2022
Middle Georgia State University third year teaching students, from left, Myah Anderson, Raven Moffitt, Emily Dent and Hannah Nichols work through techniques to teach fourth grade students the basics of fractions. Their final year in the MGA program will see them teaching full time in an area school.

[Photo] Teachers in short supply as educator pipeline slows to a trickle in Middle Georgia

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
March 2, 2022
A mix of pre-k and other students arrive at Ingram Pye Elementary School in Macon in November 2020.

[Photo] Demand high in Bibb County for pre-K, but space limited in public schools

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
January 20, 2022
Macon-Bibb County Mayor Lester Miller answers your questions each month through the Center for Collaborative Journalism.

Mayor explains plans to combat violence, resolve trash issues and pension problems

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
June 25, 2021

Mayor talks trash delays, off-road vehicles taking over streets, public safety and COVID-19 funds

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
June 11, 2021
Hiring more tutors to offer more individual instruction are among the ideas provided by school system staff.

[Photo] Bibb County Schools Asks Parents For Ideas For Spending $100 Million

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcast
April 30, 2021

Mayor targets commercial blight, warns of $15 million budget shortfall

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
April 30, 2021
Students, staff and faculty at Mercer University lined up for no appointment vaccinations in a historic basketball gymnasium after the school to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.

[Photo] COVID-19 Vaccines in Macon-Bibb County

Mandi Delong
April 1, 2021
Four mass vaccination sites are open in Georgia areas targeting high-risk populations.

[Photo] Four Mass Vaccination Sites Set To Open In High-Risk Communities

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Radio
February 20, 2021
People receiving shots during a recent drive-thru vaccine event in Cochran.

[Photo] How To Start Talking With The ‘Vaccine Hesitant’

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
February 5, 2021
Volunteers, mostly from the Single Moms Connect support group, prepare grocery boxes during one of the group's twice monthly food disbursals in Houston County.

[Photo] Cost of COVID: Food Bank Labor Dries Up

Grant Blankenship, Reporter, GPB
November 22, 2020
Bibb County students, like this student at Heritage Elementary school, were given laptops for at home, virtual school beginning in August.

[Photo] Cost of COVID: Mayor vetoes $765K to boost internet technology for Bibb students

Liz Fabian, Civic Reporting Senior Fellow
November 5, 2020
Voters wait in line at the Macon-Bibb County Board of Elections during early voting in the 2020 Presidential Election.

[Photo] $557K grant to boost Macon-Bibb 2020 election outreach

October 21, 2020
Trump Supporters at 2018 rally in Macon.

[Photo] Headed To Trump’s Macon Rally? Know The COVID-19 Risk

Grant Blankenship, GPB Reporter
October 15, 2020
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