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The Central City Commons development team is in final negotiations with a major hotelier for a new six-story hotel on Poplar Street between First and Second streets.

$130 million project, expanded Business Improvement District to boost downtown

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
August 14, 2023
Theft allegations concerning work at Allied Industrial Park surfaced shortly after former Macon-Bibb County Industrial Authority Chairman Cliffard Whitby resigned in 2017.

Alleged contractor corruption case ‘open and active’ at Ga. Attorney General’s Office

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
August 8, 2023
Commission spars over special event rules, adds public safety cameras, backs $18.5M in development bonds

Commission spars over special event rules, adds public safety cameras, backs $18.5M in development bonds

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
August 3, 2023
Macon-Bibb County Mayor Lester Miller answers the publics questions each month so send yours to mercerccj@gmail.com

Ask Mayor Miller: Tax rollback, new speed cameras, courthouse changes

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
August 2, 2023
The Indigo Girls, Emily Saliers, left, and Amy Ray, will play the Grand Opera House Sept. 16 in an Ignite the Night concert in conjunction with the Ocmulgee Indigenous Festival and Macons Bicentennial.

Indigo Girls at The Grand to benefit Ocmulgee Mounds park initiative, celebrate Macon200

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
July 28, 2023
Engineer Kelvin Seagraves, second from right, goes over the site plan for a proposed solid waste transfer station at 4300 Mead Road during the July 24 P&Z meeting.

PZ: Substance abuse recovery expansions approved, but transfer station design needs more work

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
July 25, 2023
Stores required to sell more food to get Macon-Bibb alcohol license

Stores required to sell more food to get Macon-Bibb alcohol license

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
July 19, 2023
a cup of coffee

Macon church builds community one cup at a time

Maria Padilla , Center For Collaborative Journalism
June 6, 2023
Ballard Hudson Middle School students Jalexia Maloy, left, and Jayden Parker, center, collect food during their lunch period in their roles as volunteer workers in the Helping Hands Ending Hunger program. Grant Blankenship/GPB News

In Bibb County, there’s a pilot program of students feeding students. It’s looking like a success

By Grant Blankenship, GPB News
April 25, 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
The Macon-Bibb County Design Review Board staff deemed the design of the Otis Redding Center for the Arts as inappropriate for the downtown historic district.

Macon musician Otis Redding III, son of legendary singer, dies at 59

GPB News Staff and WMAZ
April 20, 2023
A Bibb County sheriff deputys car with blue lights activated near a pedestrian crosswalk on Jeffersonville Road in Macon.

Sound but less fury: Georgia lawmakers leave town with betting, vouchers, med cannabis undone

By Ross Williams, Georgia Recorder
April 3, 2023
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