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Sofi Gratas

Sofi Gratas
Rural Health Reporter
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Sofi Gratas covers rural health and health care for GPB. She joined GPB in June 2022 as a Report for America Corps member. Based in Macon, her coverage area includes Middle and South Georgia. Her focus is on the crisis facing rural communities that consistently rank near the bottom nationwide in health and health care.  Sofi is a 2020 graduate of the University of Georgia's Grady School of Journalism. Prior to joining GPB, she worked at the Red and Black and WUGA. 

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Visitors surround a bronze statue of former First Lady Rosalynn Carter at Georgia Southwestern State University on Nov. 27.

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'So sweet and so approachable': Memorial for former first lady Carter starts in Southwest Georgia

The official tributes for former first lady Rosalynn Carter started on Monday when the Carter family and others, in a motorcade carrying Mrs. Carter’s casket, made its way from Phoebe Sumter Medical Center and through Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus for a wreath laying ceremony.

November 27, 2023
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  • Sofi Gratas
A shipping container, part of The Medical Center's temporary medical unit, gets prepared for transport to Atlanta.

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  • Health

Shipping containers at Macon’s Medical Center depart for downtown Atlanta housing project

Over the weekend, Central Georgia’s largest hospital said goodbye to a flock of shipping containers used to treat overflow patients during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

November 20, 2023
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  • Sofi Gratas
Farmer Neal Lee stands in a soybean field on his family farm in Dawson, where they also grow peanuts and cotton. White-tailed deer are more likely to eat row crops farther away from the road, where the plants are ankle height.

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  • Economy

Deer are eating through Georgia crops. For farmers, it’s the latest cost to worry about

Damage from white-tailed deer can cause millions of dollars worth of damage to the state’s most profitable crops.

 

November 01, 2023
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  • Sofi Gratas
A screening of "Rear Window" outside the historic Bibb Theatre in Macon on Nov. 22, 2023.

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  • History

'They need to bring it back': Remembering Macon's historic Bibb Theatre

After 40 years of sitting unused, "Classics at the Bibb" is bringing people back to Macon's Bibb Theatre, though the future of the building is still unknown. 

October 25, 2023
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  • Sofi Gratas
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A domestic violence shelter in Albany will soon accept pets to get more survivors to safety

People experiencing domestic violence are half as likely to seek shelter if they can’t bring pets with them, but most shelters don't allow animals. 

October 19, 2023
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