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News Articles: Macon-Bibb

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Here's how to access no-cost counseling and mental health wellness programs in Macon

The Macon Mental Health Matters initiative includes mental health counseling for both individuals and families, financial counseling, conflict resolution and non-traditional mental health activities like yoga, pop-up gyms, training, and parenting. These services are offered in the community at no cost to the client. And they increase the opportunity for access to care.

December 04, 2023
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
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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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
GFPE Executive Director Paige Pushkin said federal grants received by five Georgia counties will fund "creative, meaningful, and much-needed programs for students in rural Georgia. I can’t wait to see all that is accomplished.”

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  • Education

Five rural Georgia school districts receive grants for innovative programs

The five school districts were among school systems located in counties with populations of 35,000 or fewer invited to participate in a series of workshops that guided them through the process of developing innovative programs.

September 28, 2023
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By:
  • Dave Williams
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.

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  • Law

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.

February 27, 2023
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By:
  • Liz Fabian
Proposed location of the downtown Macon surveillance cameras.

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  • Law

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. 

February 16, 2023
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
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.

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  • Economy

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.

August 16, 2022
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Person crossing intersection

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  • News

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.

August 12, 2022
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  • Liz Fabian
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.

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  • Economy

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. 

June 08, 2022
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  • Grant Blankenship
A house being torn down on Pursley Street in Macon recently.

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  • Economy

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. 

May 21, 2021
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  • Grant Blankenship
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.

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  • Education

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. 

February 09, 2021
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Man walks down Poplar Street in Macon

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  • News

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.

September 17, 2020
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By:
  • Liz Fabian
The 100-year-old Train Recreation Center will need close to $1 million to stabilize the building apart from any renovation cost estimates.

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  • Economy

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.

August 19, 2020
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By:
  • Liz Fabian
Cliffard Whitby, right, and Lester Miller, left, are in the August 11 runoff election for mayor of Macon-Bibb County.

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  • Politics

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.

August 03, 2020
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By:
  • Liz Fabian
Thousands of job hunters wait in a mile-long line along Eisenhower Parkway for a warehouse job fair in Macon.

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  • Economy

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....

June 17, 2019
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By:
  • Virginia Prescott and
  • Jake Troyer
Blight can be seen throughout Macon-Bibb County, where nearly 4,000 properties are vacant or abandoned.

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  • Economy

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...

May 29, 2019
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  • Leighton Rowell and
  • Virginia Prescott
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