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Commission enacts alcohol license restrictions, funds runway, homeless prevention, Bowden Golf Course equipment

Commission enacts alcohol license restrictions, funds runway, homeless prevention, Bowden Golf Course equipment

Macon-Bibb Commission puts restrictions on alcohol licensing for 20s Pub after owner closed Thirsty Turtle bar following shootings
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
February 8, 2023
In June of 2020, Macon-Bibb County commissioners got their first look at preliminary plans for a $10 million upgrade of the nearly 100-year-old Macon City Auditorium.

Glass lobby for City Auditorium at risk as SPLOST priorities shift

Amendments to 2018 timeline speed jail repairs, buy property near courthouse, improve parks and prep for Forest Hill widening
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
October 5, 2021
Bernice “Queen Bee” Cotton sees the Sept. 18 concert at City Auditorium as the ‘final chapter’ for the gospel singing Cotton Brothers Otis Redding helped make famous.

‘Queen of Gospel’ Shirley Caesar to pay tribute to Macon’s famous Cotton Brothers  

Pandemic-postponed Macon City Auditorium concert is ‘bittersweet’ after 4 brothers died of COVID-19
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
September 13, 2021
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