Founded in 1826, The Telegraph's historic mission is to inform the residents of Middle Georgia and to act as a community watchdog. The Telegraph is also the publisher of The Sun News, a weekly newspaper distributed throughout Houston (Warner Robins) and Peach counties.
To a utility company, copper is the essential metal component that delivers power. To a thief, however, the thick wiring in the power box and the cooling tubes inside an air conditioner just mean fast cash. And churches are often easy targets.
Good things tend to happen when Macon’s arts community joins with others to help fill a community need. Sometimes it can be very practical, as with The Tubman African American Museum’s decision to partner with Bibb County Schools to help get beds for children without them.
Macon parents are voicing concerns about Bibb County students’ access to drinking water during the school day after recent reports of water fountain bubblers being turned off.
First Baptist Church of Christ and First Baptist Church, originally established as a single congregation in 1826, became separate 19 years later, a split motivated by the realities of slavery. But Sunday, they joined to commemorate their shared 200th anniversary.
The Sunday that changed everything for the Lawson family began in an unremarkable way — leading to a nearly 10-year journey to a man reborn as a beacon of hope.
