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A blight-affected Macon property sits alongside illegal dumping as a Code Enforcement officer patrols the area in January 2024.

Endure Blight or Take Flight? A Community’s Persistent Battle with the Issue

Kendall Ross, Reg Murphy Center
April 18, 2024
Bibb County School District CFO Eric Bush presents preliminary budget information for fiscal year 2025 at the Board of Educations first work session on March 11, 2024.

Bibb County school board mulls employee raises, potential school closures in budget meeting

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
March 12, 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.

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

Grant Blankenship
March 12, 2024
From left, Macon-Bibb County Fire Department Chief Shane Edwards, Bibb County Sheriff David Davis and Macon-Bibb County Mayor Lester Miller during the announcement Monday of efforts to hire part time patrol deputies.

Bibb County has fewer than half the patrol officers it had before consolidation. Why?

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
February 13, 2024
A Bibb County sheriff deputys car with blue lights activated near a pedestrian crosswalk on Jeffersonville Road in Macon.

Man hit by car dies weeks after crash, coroner says

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
January 8, 2024
A small fire re-ignited with hand sanitizer as an accelerate warms Conta Prices feet on a 28 degree morning in Macon in late November. Price said depending on who you talk to on the street, you will hear maybe Macons Salvation Army shelter is open to single adults, or maybe it isnt.

As winter sets in, Macon-Bibb County struggles to shelter homeless people

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
December 13, 2023
Danielle Jones, Homeless & Foster Care Liaison for the Bibb County School District, was named the 2023 recipient of the Sandra Neese Lifetime Achievement Award. The award was announced in early November at the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youths annual conference in New Orleans.

‘I love the work’: Homeless liaison for Bibb public schools receives national recognition

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
November 28, 2023
The State Charter Schools Commission at a regular meeting in Atlanta.

More charter schools are planned in Georgia. What will it mean for students outside Atlanta?

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
November 8, 2023
June ONeal, executive director of the Mentors Project, puts out blankets at her house on Nov. 4, 2021. The blankets were distributed to students in need.

What do Bibb County parents need? These Macon nonprofits want to help

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
October 31, 2023

Rutland Varsity Football Highlights

Riley Knox, Student
October 10, 2023

This Week At The Macon Newsroom (October 2nd, 2023 Edition)

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
October 2, 2023
Bibb Schools Superintendent Dan Sims, background, speaking in Tattnall Square Park recently during the first of a number of after school fairs held to promote school attendance.

Bibb School finance committee begins ‘very important work’ behind closed doors

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
September 29, 2023
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