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Speed Bump

County could remove roadblocks to adding speed bumps to local streets

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
August 26, 2024
The Macon-Bibb County Community Enhancement Authority build this house at 231 Moughon Street Lane in 2020. Four years later, it is vacant with trash on the porch, boarded up windows and tall grass.

Macon authority created to fight poverty in Pleasant Hill can’t say how it spent millions

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
June 24, 2024
Macon Housing Authority offices at 2015 Felton Avenue.

Macon Housing Authority plans first-ever development outside Georgia

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
May 13, 2024
Standing on a trolley loaded with representatives from land banks across Georgia, River Edge Behavioral Health CEO Cass Hatcher points to the construction site where a tiny homes development for unhoused individuals who have mental health challenges is being built. The tour of housing developments in Macon on Wednesday was part of the annual Georgia Association of Land Bank Authorities summit.

Georgia aims to grow workforce housing amid statewide housing shortage

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
December 8, 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 Youth's 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
Heaven Upshaw-Peters, foreground, and the rest of the graduates in the Bibb County Teaching as a Profession program, during their Signing Day ceremony recently.

Bibb County public schools’ graduation rate is the highest in a decade

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
October 12, 2023
Staff and board members of the State Charter Schools Commission visited Cirrus Academy on Aug. 23, 2023, to discuss the school's eligibility for renewal of its charter contract. The current two-year probationary charter expires in June 2024.

Cirrus Academy faces new scrutiny from State Charter Schools Commission

State charter school given deadline of Oct. 15 to address issues
Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
September 20, 2023
Cirrus Academy in July 2016.

Cirrus Academy works toward compliance after notice of violations from State Charter Schools Commission

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
September 14, 2023
Superintendent Dan Sims at a Bibb County Board of Education meeting on Aug. 18. 2023.

Bibb Schools targets truancy in aim to improve academics

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
August 21, 2023
Peachtree Recovery Services' Vice President Todd Rhoad, second from left, presents a report on pedestrian "hotspots" in Macon to a few members of the Macon-Bibb Pedestrian Safety Review Board who attended the monthly meeting in June 2023.

Five ‘hotspots’ for pedestrian deaths, injuries identified in Bibb County

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
June 21, 2023
Poplar Street Farmers Market is set to open its first market Wednesday, June 7, from 3-6 p.m.

New farmers market set to open in downtown Macon

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
June 2, 2023
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