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News Articles: Macon-Bibb

United to End Homelessness executive director Jake Hall speaks to The Telegraph on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Macon, Georgia. Hall sees addressing homelessness in Macon and Middle Georgia as a collaborative approach between government and local non-profits. Katie Tucker/The Telegraph

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These Macon laws prohibit homeless camps, but arrests are rare. Here’s why

Macon-Bibb County is the only municipality in Middle Georgia where homeless camping and sleeping in public is banned. But the ordinances actually have allowed for more outreach and support than arrests.

February 14, 2025
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  • Jesse Fraga
Akaki’s job requires clear delivery, especially since most of the players take the game seriously. He says that they are “committed to this sport of sorts.”

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  • Arts & Life

Finding meaning, calling numbers at the Bingo Hall

LISTEN: John Akaki takes pleasure and finds meaning in calling bingo. GPB intern Taleen Hanna brings us this audio postcard.

December 19, 2024
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  • Taleen Hanna
RJ Veal, a right, a fourth grader at Macon's Bernd Elementary School gives five to a member of Macon's Northeast High School Raiders football team at the start of the team's tour of all the schools feeding Northeast High Monday. The team made the trip ahead of their GHSA championship game against Toombs County.

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Ahead of Macon's Northeast Raiders championship game, a trip through the halls of their youth

It has been 49 years since a Bibb County team made it to a state high school championship game in football. One plays this week for the ring.

December 16, 2024
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Members of the Macon-Bibb County Fire Department dive team stand near new scuba gear for the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office during a press conference on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024, at Amerson River Park in Macon, Georgia. The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office announced acquiring new scuba equipment that they will lend out to Macon-Bibb County Fire Department dive team to help in water emergencies. The money for the equipment was raised by the Macon-Bibb Law Enforcement Foundation. Katie Tucker/The Telegraph

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New scuba gear for fire department will help save people from drowning in Macon

The Bibb County Fire Department’s rescue divers were given access to new scuba equipment which they hope will help them save drowning victims, officials announced Tuesday.

December 12, 2024
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  • Jesse Fraga
One of the scale models of a mixed residential/retail development created by Kennesaw State University students for Macon's Greenwood Bottom.

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  • Economy

For Kennesaw State students, listening is the first step in revitalizing Macon’s Greenwood Bottom

Being left out of your town's downtown revitalization boom time doesn't feel great. A collaboration between Kennesaw State University's architecture program and leaders in Macon is focused on listening to residents and spreading the growing wealth.

 

December 10, 2024
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  • Grant Blankenship
Angel Irving, second from right, talks with Atlanta landscape architect and planner Lauren Standish, right, during a community meeting Thursday about the proposed East Bank redevelopment project at the old Bibb Mill site. Irving said as the project goes forward, she wants assurances that on site jobs are open to local workers.

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  • Economy

East Macon residents ask developers to keep an eye out for them in the East Bank Project

Residents of a part of Macon targeted for ambitious redevelopment don't want the progress to leave them behind.

November 22, 2024
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  • Grant Blankenship
State Election Board member Janice Johnston during a recent SEB press conference. Johnston said she wanted to investigate failed voter registration challenges to understand if local election leaders are making rules that violate state law.

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  • Elections

Georgia's State Election Board approved an investigation into failed voter registration challenges

The Georgia State Election Board will investigate why challenges to voter rolls were denied in eight different Georgia counties.

September 24, 2024
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  • Grant Blankenship
Mary Kathryn Nagle rehearses her play "On the Far End" at Theatre Macon ahead of her performance there.

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For Macon's Indigenous Celebration, a play about the promise on the far end of the Trail of Tears

Mary Kathryn Nagle's play "On the Far End" tells the story of promises kept and promises broken at the end of the Trail of Tears through the life of one Muscogee woman.

September 12, 2024
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  • Grant Blankenship
Participants in the recent tour of the Oak Ridge Cemetery in Macon explore the woods around the grave of Blanche Haywood. Until recent work by preservationists in the historically African American cemetery, the grave of the woman born in the 1840s  was completely hidden by the understory.

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  • History

Unerasing the history of Macon's Oak Ridge African American cemetery

In Oak Ridge Cemetery in Macon, Ga., efforts to understand a once willfully forgotten Black cemetery are leading people to a new understanding of their history.

August 22, 2024
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  • Grant Blankenship
narcan spray

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  • Health

Opioid settlement from Kroger is set to bring millions to Georgia. But like others, it'll take time

Some Georgia counties are being invited to get their share of Kroger’s $1.2 billion, multi-district settlement over the franchises participation in the opioid addiction crisis.

July 23, 2024
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  • Sofi Gratas
Aubrey Clark stands with a Trump 2024 sign on the side of Eisenhower Parkway on Monday, July 15, 2024, in Lizella, Georgia. A half dozen supporters, including members of the Bibb County Republican Party, gathered to show their support for former president Trump two days after an attempted assassination attempt on him in Pennsylvania. Katie Tucker/The Telegraph

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Small crowds rally across Bibb County in response to Trump assassination attempt

Behind a rubber face mask of former President Donald Trump was Macon-Bibb County Republican Party Chair David Sumrall on the side of a highway Monday morning. Members of the Bibb County GOP kicked off a day-long series of rallies at 7 a.m. in response to the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on Saturday.

July 16, 2024
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  • Jesse Fraga
Bibb County sheriff’s patrol car. (Telegraph File Photograph)

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  • News

Are Bibb County sheriff’s deputies leaving Macon over low pay? Here’s what we found

As the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office attempts to hire and retain deputies, officer pay has been a commonly-raised issue.

July 05, 2024
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  • Lucinda Warnke
The line to get into the food distribution was about 2 miles long once the whole circuit was completed. Some people waited in the line upwards of two hours for boxes with items like corn, potatoes and peaches.

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  • Economy

Hundreds waited hours for free food in Macon

People in Macon waited for hours for boxes of fresh produce. Some said they were driven there by inflated grocery bills.

June 21, 2024
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  • Grant Blankenship
Erica Joy Scandrett, right, 11, gets a final straightening of her Miss Juneteenth sash and tiara from her mother Tiffany Scandrett before a ceremonial wreath laying as a part of Juneteenth observances in Macon on Thursday, June 13. Erica won her post in part through her speech about the role of the major theme in Macon’s Juneteenth observances this year, Black Girl Magic, in her life.

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  • History

Macon's 32nd Juneteenth events salute ‘Black Girl Magic' and Native American parallels

The Juneteenth holiday falls on June 19. In Macon, people have already been celebrating for days.

June 14, 2024
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  • Liz Fabian
Voting machines

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What to know about early voting in Georgia's June 18 runoff election

When can you vote early in Georgia's primary runoff election? Answer: It depends.

June 07, 2024
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