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News Articles: Macon-Bibb

The Macon-Bibb County Board of Elections, pictured here at the December meeting, is in a legal battle with the mayor and county commission over who has the authority to select the elections supervisor.

Ga. Senate bill gives Macon-Bibb clear control to select elections supervisor

The Board of Elections sued the mayor and commissioners to retain sole authority to nominate job candidates after Mayor Lester Miller planned to appoint a selection committee.

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Proposed location of the downtown Macon surveillance cameras.

Macon-Bibb County considers blanketing downtown with surveillance cameras

The Macon-Bibb County Commission is a vote away from approving the rollout of an expansive camera surveillance network in the city’s downtown core. 

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Tonithia Fernandez holds one of her two cats while also trying to pack up and move her home as a Macon-Bibb County excavator clears out another part of the encampment where she lived until Tuesday.

Macon-Bibb County demolishes the same homeless encampment for the second time since June

Like in June, the city brought heavy machinery to clear the empty lot owned by the Macon-Bibb County Urban Development Authority.

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Person crossing intersection

Road safety concerns, frustrations prompt Macon-Bibb summit with GDOT

Macon Mayor Lester Miller leads local delegation to meet with state transportation officials over pedestrian safety issues.

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Pat Garrett pauses while packing up her home at the edge of a homeless encampment on Riverside Drive in Macon on June 8, 2022. Macon-Bibb County bulldozed one of the city's largest homeless encampments, saying it was necessary as a public health measure.

Macon-Bibb County bulldozes one of the city's largest homeless encampments

Officials in Macon-Bibb County took action against the city’s growing population of unhoused people with the bulldozing of a downtown encampment Wednesday. 

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A house being torn down on Pursley Street in Macon recently.

Macon-Bibb County Demolishes 31 Houses In Under 30 Days

This week officials in Macon-Bibb County met a goal in an effort to eliminate blighted housing in the city. 

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Students at Ingram-Pye Elementary School in Macon waiting for their first day of in person instruction on November 9, 2020. Bibb County students would leave in person instruction a few weeks later.

Bibb County Schools Headed Back To Face-To-Face Instruction

The Bibb County School District confirmed that face-to-face instruction will resume Thursday, Feb. 18, following the district’s scheduled winter break. 

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Man walks down Poplar Street in Macon

COVID-19 Street Vendor Policy Goes Into Effect In Macon-Bibb

Food carts and street vendors could soon be popping up around Macon-Bibb County after commissioners approved a temporary relaxing of regulations due to COVID-19.

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The 100-year-old Train Recreation Center will need close to $1 million to stabilize the building apart from any renovation cost estimates.

Macon Mask Mandate Pending, While Cocktail Strolls And Historic Building Renovation Get Green Light

Strolling downtown with a cocktail in hand is no longer limited to Friday nights.

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Cliffard Whitby, right, and Lester Miller, left, are in the August 11 runoff election for mayor of Macon-Bibb County.

Miller And Whitby Face Off In Macon-Bibb Mayoral Debate

A week before the August 11 runoff election, the two men hoping to become Macon-Bibb County’s mayor will meet in a live debate.

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Thousands of job hunters wait in a mile-long line along Eisenhower Parkway for a warehouse job fair in Macon.

Amid Low Unemployment in Macon, Mile-long Job Fair Line Tells Different Story

Organizers and city leaders are still puzzling out why a job fair at the Anderson Conference Center in Macon recently saw an unexpectedly large turnout....

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Blight can be seen throughout Macon-Bibb County, where nearly 4,000 properties are vacant or abandoned.

Residents, Leaders Battle Blight In Macon

Drive through almost any neighborhood in Macon-Bibb County and you're apt to spot some houses with crumbling facades, shuttered windows and overgrown...

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Clay Murphey, program director for special sales tax funded projects in Macon-Bibb County, points out how the stormwater culvert running underneath Second Street and Hazel Street in Macon is in danger of falling in. Murphey wants $30 million on top of the

Paying for Crumbling Stormwater Systems

Clay Murphey, a project manager for Macon Bibb County, walked through an eight-foot-high stormwater culvert under a busy intersection. As sloshed...

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The Mill Hill section of Macon, where about $800,000 of blight money will be spent.

Tearing Down Blight In Macon-Bibb County

In February Macon-Bibb county commissioners agreed to take $4.5 million and spend it on 15 blighted projects in the county. One commissioner called the...

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Esther Muhammad of Macon wears a t-shirt featuring an image of her son Daniel, who was killed in 2013 after being hit by a car. The police determined that his death was a suicide, but his mom doesn't believe it.

Macon-Bibb One Of The Worst Georgia Counties For Pedestrian Deaths

Macon-Bibb County officials meet later this month to discuss why the rate of pedestrian fatalities is so high in the city. It’s either the most deadly...

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