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[Video] A woman’s place is in the kitchen for inmates at the Bibb County Jail

Samantha Max, Report for America corps member
February 22, 2019
Kingdom Life Pastor Dominique Johnson says food and faith can bring the Macon community together.

‘It’s not about the food,’ says Macon pastor. Church meals bring bring people together

Samantha Max, Report for America corps member
February 20, 2019
Mercer University third-year medical student Ayana Graham tends her plot at a community garden behind Centenary United Methodist Church in Macon.

This Mercer University medical student is bringing fresh veggies to Macon’s food deserts

Samantha Max, Report for America corps member
February 9, 2019
Edwin Pierre-Lewis, a native of Haiti who attends graduate school at the University of Georgia, uses a buck call as he hunts deer west of Athens. He learned to hunt as part of the Field to Fork program and has become a mentor, now teaching others how to hunt.

Hunting enthusiasts fear the sport is dying. Can ‘locavores’ save the age-old pastime?

Samantha Max, Report for America corps member
December 10, 2018
Milledgeville, Ga., 10/30/2018: Cafe Central soup kitchen which serves more than 500 weekly in Milledgeville is one of the beneficiaries of the Georgia Wildlife Federation Georgia Hunters for the Hungry venison.

Over one million Georgia residents are hungry. Deer hunters are trying to fix that

Samantha Max, Telegraph/Report for America corp member
November 5, 2018

How To: Health Reporting with Samantha Max from Clare Reverri on Vimeo.

Breaking down the news

Samantha Max, Telegraph/Report for America corp member
November 2, 2018
The store closest to the closed Kroger only has snack foods on the shelf.

Six months after Kroger closes, what’s left for residents to feed their families?

Samantha Max, Telegraph/Report for America corp member
October 29, 2018
Shan Speilberg, director of dining for Flik Independent School Dining speaks with Isabell Tharpe Wednesday morning in the kitchen at Stratford Academy

How good can a cafeteria meal be? This is what an $8 school lunch looks like

Samantha Max, Report for America corps member
September 16, 2018
Brussels sprouts are cut in preparation for lunch Wednesday morning in the kitchen at Stratford Academy.

How good can a cafeteria meal be? This is what an $8 school lunch looks like

Samantha Max, Telegraph/Report for America corp member
September 16, 2018
This chef’s looking to his roots to put a new twist on soul food

This chef’s looking to his roots to put a new twist on soul food

Samantha Max, Report for America corps member
September 14, 2018
School nutrition manager Diane May puts together sack lunches Wednesday at Lakeview Primary School

Now serving: Locally grown peaches and hydroponic lettuce on the school lunch line

Samantha Max, Report for America corps member
September 7, 2018
Macon Food Story, Chapter 6: Meals on Wheels / Sherry Hatcher

Macon Food Story, Chapter 6: Meals on Wheels / Sherry Hatcher

Samantha Max, Report for America corps member
September 7, 2018
Macon Food Story, Chapter 9: How Georgia's farms rely on the H-2A visa program

Macon Food Story, Chapter 9: How Georgia’s farms rely on the H-2A visa program

Wayne Crenshaw and Samantha Max
September 7, 2018
Alexander II Magnet School kindergartener Rylee Davis, left, says she loves spaghetti as she goes through the lunch line.

All Bibb County students eat for free. That could be in jeopardy

Samantha Max, Report for America corps member
September 3, 2018
Alexander II Magnet School kindergartener Rylee Davis, left, says she loves spaghetti as she goes through the lunch line.

All Bibb County students eat for free. That could be in jeopardy

Samantha Max, Report for America corps member
September 3, 2018
Wesley Dawson, left, and Preston Evans bag bread for sacks of groceries to be given to clients at Loaves and Fishes. Screened clients receive over 3,000 bags of food every year in the program

Hundreds wait to receive a hot meal, but it’s uncertain when it might arrive

Samantha Max, Report for America corps member
August 13, 2018
Barbara Hatcher, who lives alone in McAfee Towers, enjoys a lunch at her apartment brought by a Meals on Wheels staffer. Hatcher says the human contact is at least as nutritious as the crab salad, fruit and chocolate milk meal.

Hundreds wait to receive a hot meal, but it’s uncertain when it might arrive

Samantha Max, Report for America corps member
August 13, 2018
Money In Hands

Macon-Bibb County employees get benefits on taxpayers’ dime

Samantha Max, Telegraph/Report for America corp member
August 10, 2018
An ambulance is pictured outside the Medical Center, Navicent Health, (then The Medical Center of Central Georgia) in this 2009 file photo. Federal law requires all Medicare-participating hospitals with emergency departments to medically screen and stabilize any patient in need of emergency care.

Treatment first, payment later — that’s the law at the ER

Samantha Max, Telegraph Report for America reporter
August 7, 2018
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