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Members of Keep Macon-Bibb Beautiful, the United Way of Central Georgia and community volunteers walk along Watkins Lane while participating in a Walking School Bus audit for Burdell-Hunt Elementary School Tuesday.

[Photo] East Macon students tread hazardous paths to school. Community wants to change that

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
September 26, 2024
A handful of Bibb County public school students boarded a bus at InTown Suites on Eisenhower Parkway early one dewy morning in August.

[Photo] Number of homeless students in Georgia grows while funding to support them shrinks

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
September 12, 2024
Janice McCrary uses the new medianettes on Gray Highway one sweltering afternoon in August 2024. The 59-year-old lives in an apartment at McAfee Towers and was on the way back from eating lunch at Dairy Queen.

[Photo] Macon-Bibb County gets millions to fix one of its deadliest roads

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
September 9, 2024
Illegal dumping on Center Street makes the road an obstacle course for drivers.

[Photo] Bibb County’s unending battle against illegal dumping

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
August 27, 2024
Superintendent Dan Sims attended an assembly at Hartley Elementary before the school board meeting on Monday, Aug. 19, 2024.

[Photo] Bibb County school board set to approve property tax increase

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
August 20, 2024
Janice McCrary uses the new medianettes on Gray Highway one sweltering afternoon in August 2024. The 59-year-old lives in an apartment at McAfee Towers and was on the way back from eating lunch at Dairy Queen.

[Photo] One of Macon’s deadliest highways is made a bit safer

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
August 13, 2024
Rodney Mason collects scoops of soil to test from the vacant lot in Kings Park Subdivision where he will grow indigenous cultivars in a neighborhood garden.

[Photo] Nonprofit using community gardens to reintroduce African food culture

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
August 13, 2024
The dormer of this house at 1783 First Ave. overlooks Jefferson Long Park and is down Craft Street from The Little Richard Resource House. The Georgia Department of Transportation paid CEA more than $180,000 to build it for a nonprofit created by Rep. James Beverly.

[Photo] Minimal oversight led to misspent money meant for Pleasant Hill, records show

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
July 18, 2024
The Buck Melton Community Center is now under the ownership of the Boys & Girls Club of Central Georgia.

[Photo] Macon community center sold to a nonprofit

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
June 21, 2024
U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff gets a demonstration of a hydraulic stretcher in one of the new Atrium Health Navicent ambulances from EMT Josh Humphrey and paramedics Kerry Sanders, back, and Jeannie Middlebrooks on Monday, April 22, 2024.

[Photo] Atrium receives $600k to purchase new ambulances for Macon, Middle Georgia counties

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
April 22, 2024
The Macon-Bibb County Board of Elections office in the old Macon Mall.

[Photo] A Georgia voter’s guide to campaign finance research

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
April 1, 2024
Cremains are scattered at Rose Hill Cemetery during a ceremony to honor deceased people whose cremains have for years been unclaimed and stored in county archives.

Cremains are scattered at Rose Hill Cemetery during a ceremony to honor deceased people whose cremains have for years been unclaimed and stored in county archives.

Cremains are scattered at Rose Hill Cemetery during a ceremony to honor deceased people whose cremains have for years been unclaimed and stored in county archives.

Cremains are scattered at Rose Hill Cemetery during a ceremony to honor deceased people whose cremains have for years been unclaimed and stored in county archives.

Cremains are scattered at Rose Hill Cemetery during a ceremony to honor deceased people whose cremains have for years been unclaimed and stored in county archives.

Cremains are scattered at Rose Hill Cemetery during a ceremony to honor deceased people whose cremains have for years been unclaimed and stored in county archives.

Cremains are scattered at Rose Hill Cemetery during a ceremony to honor deceased people whose cremains have for years been unclaimed and stored in county archives.

Cremains are scattered at Rose Hill Cemetery during a ceremony to honor deceased people whose cremains have for years been unclaimed and stored in county archives.

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