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Comedian Caroline Exum is no stranger behind the mic.

Events in Macon May 29-June 5

Tanya Ott, Center for Collaborative Journalism
May 28, 2024
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
Neighbors in opposition to a proposed business center on Hartley Bridge Road leave Monday's P&Z meeting when the developer asked for an extension to allow time to meet with neighborhood representatives about the project.

P&Z members support Otis Redding center, hear YKK expansion plans, postpone hearing on Hartley Bridge development amid opposition

Macon-Bibb County Planning & Zoning to consider Otis Redding Center for the Arts next month after Design Review Board staff balked at contemporary design in historic downtown
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
August 23, 2022
Macon-Bibb seeks enhanced homeless info, restricts coin operated amusement machines

Macon-Bibb seeks enhanced homeless info, restricts coin operated amusement machines

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
December 16, 2021
CCJ Top Takeaways: Macon-Bibb creates new holiday, ponders homeless survey, gaming machine limits

CCJ Top Takeaways: Macon-Bibb creates new holiday, ponders homeless survey, gaming machine limits

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
December 8, 2021
Bernice “Queen Bee” Cotton sees the Sept. 18 concert at City Auditorium as the ‘final chapter’ for the gospel singing Cotton Brothers Otis Redding helped make famous.

‘Queen of Gospel’ Shirley Caesar to pay tribute to Macon’s famous Cotton Brothers  

Pandemic-postponed Macon City Auditorium concert is ‘bittersweet’ after 4 brothers died of COVID-19
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
September 13, 2021
Bibb County Sheriff David Davis hopes a new Outreach Center will help curb violent crime after a record number of homicides in 2020.

21 things to look for in 2021 – Part 3

Liz Fabian, Civic Reporting Senior Fellow
January 3, 2021
Justin Andrews is the grandson of Otis Redding .

Humility Continues Legacies

Justin Andrews
Cass Herin, Emerald Gibbs, and Jenna Sanders
June 16, 2017

Faith, Love and Bars

Nadiyah Wilmore
Charlie Goldsmith, Janai Stinson, and Emma Stiefel
June 17, 2016
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