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11th annual Atlanta Juneteenth Parade and Festival Saturday, June 17, 2023.

Georgia Juneteenth celebrations break out from Atlanta to Dublin to Valdosta

Aaleah McConnell, Georgia Recorder
June 19, 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.

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

By Grant Blankenship, GPB News
April 28, 2023
Scott Seigel, the Market Preseident at Truist, speaks to press outside of the Atrium Health Navicent Beverly Knight Olson Children’s Hospital in Macon, Ga. on Tuesday, Aug. 23. “We couldn’t be more excited to see all the smiles on the faces this morning that the children had when they came up to have their picture taken,” he said of the chance for patients to take photographs with the Braves World Series Commissioner's Trophy. (Photo by Evey Wilson Wetherbee)

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta commits millions to grow rural pediatric care

By Sofi Gratas, GPB News
March 2, 2023
Central High School senior Gabe Deegan watches assistant teacher and parapro Madelynn Washington hold a stream of optical fiber lights in the school's new sensory room on Oct. 25, 2022.

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

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
October 27, 2022
The debate over the narrow exceptions included in Georgia’s abortion ban were at the center of a two-day proceeding focused on whether the state’s six-week ban on most abortions runs afoul of the state constitutional right to privacy.

Court witnesses debate role of exceptions in Georgia abortion law; judge’s decision to come later

Jill Nolan, Georgia Recorder
October 26, 2022
A new VA medical center is proposed for Gwinnett County to augment treatment options for metro Atlanta enrollees living in the northern suburbs. The Decatur medical center is a long drive for veterans on the northern end of Gwinnett. Courtesy U.S. Veterans Administration

Safety net hospitals in Georgia are at risk. Atlanta Medical Center is just the latest example

Sofi Gratas, GPB News
October 12, 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
Bibb Schools Chief Information Officer Kevin Adams informs the school board that more students are enrolled this school year than originally projected.

Bibb Schools enrollment headed in ‘a very positive direction’

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
September 16, 2022

Q&A with Bibb County Schools Superintendent Dan A. Sims

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
August 17, 2022
Bibb Schools' Chief of Staff Katika D. Lovett presents a proposal to contract with consultant company Gallup Inc.

Bibb School Board gives taxpayers a break, new superintendent hires consultants

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
July 22, 2022
Incoming Bibb Schools Superintendent Dan Sims presented his vision for the district at a meet and greet in Rutland High School's auditorium late afternoon June 21, 2022.

Incoming Bibb Schools Superintendent shares ‘#Built4Bibb’ vision

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
June 22, 2022
Dan Sims hugs his wife, Traci, after the Bibb County Board of Education voted 6-2 to appoint him to superintendent.

Dan Sims to ‘take the baton’ as next Bibb Schools Superintendent

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
May 10, 2022
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