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The Macon Newsroom

Linear Park in the historic Pleasant Hill neighborhood is separated from Interstate 75 by a barrier wall and runs between Walnut Street and First Avenue where Middle Street once was.

County seeks new name as part of $2M renovation for bungled Pleasant Hill park

Public may submit ideas online until Nov. 1
Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
October 17, 2024
Superintendent Dan Sims attended an assembly at Hartley Elementary before the school board meeting on Monday, Aug. 19, 2024.

Bibb County school board set to approve property tax increase

Maintaining the millage rate would yield $4.3 million in revenue
Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
August 20, 2024
Macon-Bibb helps secure Robins AFB, preps for construction around City Hall

Macon-Bibb helps secure Robins AFB, preps for construction around City Hall

County Commissioners approve new engineer, accept Boy Scout project at Theron Ussery Park and deny Bloomfield alcohol license
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
August 7, 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.

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

GDOT paid $180,000 to build a home for nonprofit created by Rep. James Beverly
Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
July 18, 2024
Brooklyn Bike Co. cruiser hits the streets of Macon's Vineville neighborhood

Events in Macon June 13-19

Tanya Ott, Center for Collaborative Journalism
June 12, 2024
United Way of Central Georgia's "United to End Homelessness" initiative director Jake Hall gives census volunteer Heather Sims a hand as she wends her way through a new to the census takers homeless encampment in Macon.

How many homeless people live in Bibb County? A new rough estimate is in.

Number of unsheltered people in Macon higher than previously thought, survey finds
Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
February 9, 2024
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