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Students make documentary about Ocmulgee National Historic Park

Katie Linkner
May 6, 2023
Allen Camp after his interview at the Daybreak Center on April 20, 2023. Allen is disabled and was unhoused for six months but is now getting into an apartment and paying expenses by working part-time and using his SSDI payments.

Who is Housing Insecure in Macon?

Olivia Scott and Cole Brockman
May 5, 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.

Program aimed at encouraging students to be teachers graduates its first class

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
May 5, 2023
$2.7M tapped for Macon road repairs; commissioners raise concerns over new GBI anti-gang task force

$2.7M tapped for Macon road repairs; commissioners raise concerns over new GBI anti-gang task force

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
May 3, 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
Researchers examine an evening bat while handling it for scientific measurements during a night of data collection on creek in Macon in 2015. The data collected that night is just one point in a just published seven year study of Georgia's bats.

Georgia’s bat populations are crashing, but signs of hope emerge in some habitats

By Grant Blankenship, GPB News
April 28, 2023
Dozens of neighbors packed into the April 24 Macon-Bibb County Planning & Zoning Commission meeting to oppose a new subdivision on Walden Road.

330 people oppose rezoning farmland for 164 new homes on Walden Road

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
April 26, 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
Keep Macon Bibb Beautiful Education Committee Chair Janice Habersham reads to second graders at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School.

Young students targeted in Macon-Bibb’s renewed anti-litter education campaign

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
April 21, 2023
The Macon Water Authority board and the utility's employees are under new ethics rules passed by the Georgia General Assembly.

Macon Water Authority’s new ethics rules take effect. Here’s what that means

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
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
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