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A man was hit by a car at Cotton Avenue and Cherry Street in early June.

Macon wants to add ‘teeth’ to rules keeping downtown sidewalks clear

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
June 18, 2024
Bibb County School Board President Juawn Jackson.

Weapons detection equipment coming to all Bibb County public schools

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
December 15, 2023

Explainer: Stone Water Tank Construction

Kevin White, Center for Collaborative Journalism
July 3, 2023
Mercer engineering student Lauren Folsom tosses rocks to Michael Nierodzik, who is also an engineering student. The students were helping construct a stone water tank in the Sabana Bonita community of El Cercado, Dominican Republic.

Mercer Students Get Hands-on in the Dominican Republic

Amelie Horace, Center for Collaborative Journalism
June 26, 2023
Macon-Bibb County Mayor Lester Miller answers the public's questions each month.

Ask Mayor Miller: Public safety spending priority, tax rollback, river hazards and road work

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
June 1, 2023
Stage set for amphitheater as some new Macon Mall county offices to open this year

Stage set for amphitheater as some new Macon Mall county offices to open this year

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
May 9, 2023
The Friends of Rosa Parks Square Board walked through the redesign with the architects in the summer of 2021, but a contractor has not yet been hired or the money raised for the renovation.

Choosing contractor latest delay in planned Rosa Parks Square renovation

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
April 10, 2023
Affordable housing gets $7.5m boost in new Macon-Bibb loan program

Affordable housing gets $7.5m boost in new Macon-Bibb loan program

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
January 11, 2023
Dan Anthony Sims, the Bibb County Board of Education's sole finalist for superintendent, visits students at a Bibb County Elementary School on Monday, April 25, 2022.

2023 Preview – Part 2: School enrollment, building boom, road safety, delayed response times and Eisenhower improvements

Liz Fabian and Laura Corley
December 27, 2022
Stacy Jones lives in a small blue house at the dead end of Roosevelt Avenue with his 6-year-old daughter and 97-year-old grandmother. He said he feels like Pleasant Hill is being gentrified.

A state authority got millions to reduce poverty in Pleasant Hill. Has it helped?

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
December 14, 2022
The old Handy Andy store was torn down recently after Macon-Bibb Planning & Zoning denied the demolition in September.

P&Z denied Forsyth St. store demolition, so why is it gone?

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
November 22, 2022
Heavy equipment recently clears the construction site where the Macon Housing Authority and Depaul USA are building Central City Apartments that are expected to be completed at the end of 2023.

From hazardous site to workforce housing and homeless respite

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
June 29, 2022
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