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East Bank community meeting participants use colored stickers to choose the types of urban amenities they would like to see included in development.

[Photo] East Macon residents ask developers to keep an eye out for them in the East Bank Project

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
November 22, 2024
Protesters were outside the Georgia Governor's Mansion on Oct. 3, 2023 to bring attention to violence and other concerns in Georgia's prisons. One protester carries a photo of Stephanie Widener, who died of sepsis in Georgia Department of Corrections custody.

[Photo] Protesters outside governor's mansion demand Kemp take action against prison violence

October 4, 2023
A supporter of Macon's Temple Beth Israel, center, is held back by law enforcement as the leader of a documented antisemitic hate group, left, attempts to disrupt a gathering at the temple on Saturday, June 24. The gathering was in response to the hate group's action at the temple the day before at the start of the Jewish Sabbath.

Hundreds gather in solidarity against antisemitic and anti-LGBTQ hate speech at Macon temple

Grant Blankenship GPB News
June 28, 2023
In structured literacy, students spend a lot of time learning how to break words down into bits of sound called phonemes.

A new way of teaching kids to read in Georgia

Grant Blankenship GPB News
June 20, 2023
Peaches ready for packing and shipping at Lane Packing, a peach farm in Fort Valley, Ga.

Georgia’s peaches knocked out by a 1-2 punch of climate trends and bad weather

Grant Blankenship, GPB News
May 25, 2023
A Mexican free-tailed bat emerges from a bat box mounted behind the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Macon recently.

How you can count bats in the name of science

Grant Blankenship, GPB News
May 19, 2023
The emergency room entrance at Macon's Atrium Health Navicent The Medical Center, a Level 1 designated trauma center, on July 16, 2020.

[Photo] Trauma care in Georgia is strained, and a rural review points to systemic failures

Sofi Gratas, GPB News
May 12, 2023
Researchers examine an evening bat while handling it for scientific measurements during a night of data collection on creek in Macon in 2015. The data collected that night is just one point in a just published seven year study of Georgia's bats.

[Photo] Georgia’s bat populations are crashing, but signs of hope emerge in some habitats

By Grant Blankenship, GPB News
April 28, 2023
Ballard Hudson Middle School students Jalexia Maloy, left, and Jayden Parker, center, collect food during their lunch period in their roles as volunteer workers in the Helping Hands Ending Hunger program.

[Photo] In Bibb County, there’s a pilot program of students feeding students. It’s looking like a success

By Grant Blankenship, GPB News
April 25, 2023
Builder Shawn Stafford looks at a photo of 835 Forsyth St. before the facade collapsed late Monday night in downtown Macon.

Macon-Bibb County considers blanketing downtown with surveillance cameras

Grant Blankenship, GPB News
February 17, 2023
Health workers work during a COVID-19 vaccination event in Cochran, Ga., January 25, 2021. The pandemic strained an already stressed public health system, one that $100 million in federal grants aims to repair and strengthen.

[Photo] Georgia’s public health system gets nearly $100 million for workforce and upgrades

Sofi Gratas, GPB News
December 7, 2022
Andrae Bailey, a consultant and advocate for people experiencing homelessness, explains the concept of "housing first" to nonprofit leaders in Macon recently.

On the cutting edge of solutions to homelessness in Georgia, it’s ‘housing first’

Grant Blankenship, GPB News
November 2, 2022
Mercer University President William Underwood, left, with Bibb Schools Superintendent Dan Sims, center, and Clayton Schools Superintendent Morcease Beasley, right, after the announcement of the new Mercer program to lure mid-career people into teaching.

A new degree program aims to draw mid-career jobseekers to teaching

Grant Blankenship, GPB News
October 5, 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.

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

Grant Blankenship, GPB News
August 17, 2022
Mika Shills crosses Spring Street in Macon with the red light going her way by about 20 yards from the crosswalk a few hours after another pedestrian was hit and killed near the same spot. Shills is careful about crossing Macon roadways on foot but says nowhere is really safe to do it. "They'll speed up and try to hit you out here," she said.

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

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
May 18, 2022
Students return for in-person classes on Nov. 9, 2020 at Ingram Pye Elementary in Macon, Ga. They went virtual again a few weeks later.

[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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