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News Articles: bibb county

Northeast players celebrate their 46-14 win over Fitzgerald in Friday night’s GHSA state semifinal game. Jason Vorhees / The Melody

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Northeast dominates in semifinal to earn Bibb County’s first GHSA Football Championship game berth in 49 years

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.

December 09, 2024
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By:
  • Micah Johnston
In this image from video, Sabrina Friday, the executive director of Mother's Nest in Macon, Ga., talks during an interview June 22, 2024.

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  • News

In Georgia, the winner in the presidential race may be determined by who doesn't vote

In Georgia, nonvoters are the most complicated piece of the electoral puzzle in a state that could decide the presidency. There are more than 47,000 people in Bibb County, Georgia, about 80 miles south of Atlanta, who are eligible to vote but don't.

October 22, 2024
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  • Associated Press
New affordable housing in Macon

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  • News

New affordable Pleasant Hill Landing housing planned for historically Black neighborhood in Macon

Macon-Bibb County government has announced a new affordable housing development in the heart of one of the city’s most prominent historically Black neighborhoods.

September 20, 2024
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Paula Platt holds a photo of her son Stephen Fossett during a press conference in which she and attorneys for her family pressed for more details in Fossett's death during detention by the Bibb County Jail.

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  • Law

The family of a mentally ill man who died in Bibb County Jail custody wants answers

The family of a man with a history of mental illness who died in the custody of the Bibb County Jail says they are still waiting for answers about how he died.

August 28, 2024
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
The beach at Lake Tobesofkee in Bibb County, in the near center of the state of Georgia.

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  • Environment

In Macon, just because you have no ocean doesn't mean you have no beach

While for a lot of people, a day at the beach is an essential summer activity, an oceanfront isn’t available to everyone in Georgia. But you can still find beach fun if you know where to look.  

 

August 14, 2024
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By:
  • Taleen Hanna
Georgia Secretary of State's Office technician Chris Bellew runs a test on Bibb County elections systems while Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger talks to a reporter Tuesday.

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  • Elections

Bibb County and others get a clean bill of voting machine health from the state

Ahead of the November election, the Georgia office of the secretary of state is making surprise spot checks of county boards of elections to ensure voting machines are working fairly and accurately.

July 30, 2024
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
pinning ceremony

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  • Health

Macon celebrates new class of firefighters amid efforts to beat shortage

Firefighters do more than just put out fires -- they also respond to 9-1-1 calls when police can’t make it. But nationwide, employing firefighters has been a challenge while calls for service have gone up.

July 04, 2024
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
The Temple Mound Complex at the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historic Park in Macon in May. (Grant Blankenship/GPB News)

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  • News

Land preservation group acquires properties near Ocmulgee Mounds for 1st national park

A nonprofit organization dedicated to land conservation has acquired two parcels of land in Middle Georgia that will support efforts to establish the Ocmulgee Mounds as Georgia’s first national park.

 

June 28, 2024
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  • Dave Williams
Gateway Kiosk

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  • Health Care

New library kiosks make it easier to apply and manage critical public health benefits

Georgians can now access the state benefits portal, Georgia Gateway, through a rollout of self-service kiosks at hundreds of public libraries.

May 08, 2024
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  • Sofi Gratas
Bibb County Jail

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More money for jail security: Macon commission will vote on $2M for magnetic locks, more

The Macon-Bibb County Commission will consider adding magnetic locks and other upgrades to the Bibb County Jail at its Tuesday meeting.

April 15, 2024
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  • Lucinda Warnke and
  • The Telegraph
The south Bibb County residential building boom that began in the 1980s led to major flooding issues on the flat former farmland, but the Macon Water Authority is proceeding with stormwater drainage enhancements.

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  • News

MWA takes next steps to curtail south Bibb flooding

Site design work along Sardis Church Road Extension and the Nowell Estates neighborhood gets approval.

January 09, 2024
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  • Liz Fabian
Four men escaped from the Bibb County jail on Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. Clockwise from top left: Johnifer Barnwell, Joey Fournier, Kerry Anderson and Demaryo Stokes.

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  • News

Last of 4 men who escaped from a Georgia jail last month is caught

Bibb County Sheriff David Davis said in a news release that 53-year-old Joey Fournier was captured about 65 miles away from the jail in Bibb County just before noon Saturday. 

November 20, 2023
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  • Associated Press
At left, the old Macon Health Club at Cherry and First streets downtown.

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  • Economy

How a new hotel, apartments, a restaurant and a health club may be coming to downtown Macon

A land swap in Macon-Bibb County means a long-dormant, historic health club in the heart of downtown will see new life.

November 17, 2023
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  • Laura Corley
Four men escaped from the Bibb County jail on Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. Clockwise from top left: Johnifer Barnwell, Joey Fournier, Kerry Anderson and Demaryo Stokes.

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  • News

2nd of four men who escaped from a central Georgia jail has been caught, sheriff's office says

Authorities said the second of four men who escaped from a central Georgia jail last month has been captured. The Bibb County Sheriff's Office said in a news release that a team of local, state and federal law enforcement officers arrested 25-year-old Marc Kerry Anderson just before 3 p.m. Friday at an apartment complex in Atlanta.

November 06, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Sheena Hartry hands out lunch bags to kids at a neighborhood in south Macon during the second to last week of the Bibb County School District's mobile summer lunch program.

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  • Children's Health

Feeding thousands of kids a day during the summer takes a lot of work. For many, it's crucial

Federally funded summer meal programs, like the one run by the Bibb County School District in Macon, fill the gap during for families experiencing food insecurity.

July 11, 2023
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  • Sofi Gratas
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