Micah Johnston is the Sports Editor for the Macon Melody. When he’s not fanatically watching baseball or reading sci-fi and Stephen King novels, he’s creating and listening to music. He graduated from Central High School’s IB program in 2018 after four years in the Sugarbear Band, then graduated from Mercer University’s Reg Murphy Center for Collaborative Journalism in 2022. Micah worked at the Macon Telegraph as a general assignment, sports and crime reporter before joining the Melody.
The Patriots kept the lead and ran out the clock on Toombs County, riding the energy of the impassioned crowd to secure a 65-54 win in the Final Four of the GHSA Class A-Division I state tournament Saturday night and advance to the championship game in Macon next weekend.
The shoulder-to-shoulder crowd at Thompson Stadium in East Macon, likely one of the biggest turnouts the joint had seen in decades, warded off the cold in a variety of ways during the Northeast Raiders’ dominant semifinals performance Friday night.
A Macon federal gangster trial last month connected to an Athens murder used an anonymous jury for safety reasons, court documents show, a rarity in the Middle District of Georgia.
The federal government cited Fort Valley State University’s veterinary science department for six violations during an annual inspection in February, marking the third time in three years the school has been hit with multiple citations.
