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Billed as an exclusive, high-achieving public school, ACE struggles with lack of diversity, finances

Billed as an exclusive, high-achieving public school, ACE struggles with lack of diversity, finances

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
May 31, 2023
Academy for Classical Education Principal Laura Perkins, second from right, during a recent meeting of the school's governing board.

Finances in flux, future uncharted for ACE

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
May 31, 2023
Peaches ready for packing and shipping at Lane Packing, a peach farm in Fort Valley, Ga.

Georgia’s peaches knocked out by a 1-2 punch of climate trends and bad weather

Grant Blankenship, GPB News
May 25, 2023
Bibb County Schools Superintendent Dan Sims delivers a presentation to the community in June 2022.

Bibb Schools to dip into its reserve funds for tentatively approved 2024 budget

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
May 24, 2023
Chase Kitchen signed a letter of intent to be an intern at Middle Georgia State University through the Project SEARCH program. Chase, center, is pictured with his parents, Charles and Felisha Kitchen, and Bibb County school board member Lisa Garrett.

‘It gives him a start.’ University program helps Bibb graduates with disabilities take the next step

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
May 22, 2023
Georgia Academy for the Blind senior Daquan Brown with the 3d yearbook printed for him and other members of the Class of 2023 by Mercer University engineering students.

Mercer students continue tradition of creating 3D yearbooks for the blind

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
May 10, 2023
An ambulance is pictured outside the Medical Center, Navicent Health, (then The Medical Center of Central Georgia) in this 2009 file photo. Federal law requires all Medicare-participating hospitals with emergency departments to medically screen and stabilize any patient in need of emergency care.

Hospital appeals Bibb County jury’s verdict, case returns to Georgia Court of Appeals

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
May 3, 2023
This Macon Transit Authority bus shelter on College Street is among 6 downtown shelters that will feature art installations set to be unveiled May 5, 2023.

Macon Transit Authority halts planned bus fare hike – for now

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
April 26, 2023
Burdell-Hunt Elementary School students in 2017. The school is one of 11 Bibb elementary schools to be under-enrolled according to state rules.

Future school closures, tax increase among options weighed by Bibb County school board

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
April 23, 2023
Yellow Rock Farm owner, Paul Cardwell visits his female alpacas and llamas on his farm on December 5, 2022 in Macon, Ga.

Governor signs bipartisan legislation to conserve Georgia farmland

Jill Nolin, Georgia Recorder
April 23, 2023
Chiquita Dinkins teaches a unit on photosynthesis to students at Northeast High School in Macon. Dinkins, who was head cheerleader at Northeast as a student in the 1980s, is one of 18 alumni teachers at the school.

University system extends waiver of test requirements

Dave Williams, Capitol Beat News
April 21, 2023
Navicent Health, The Medical Center of Central Georgia merged with North Carolina-based Atrium Health in 2019. It is now called Atrium Health Navicent.

Jury awards former Navicent executive, surgeon almost $5 million in civil suit

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
April 14, 2023
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