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News Articles: Middle Georgia

A group of at least a dozen people are seen holding a ribbon about to be cut in front of a building.

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  • News

New units address severe housing shortage in Valdosta

Officials recently cut the ribbon on the first phase of a two-phase project to build 180 units of much-needed affordable housing in Valdosta.

May 22, 2025
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By:
  • Orlando Montoya
Pediatrician Brittany Lord, left, talks with Mahogany Brown about her infant son Memphis Exum’s health before a standard round of vaccinations during a recent visit in Lord’s practice in the town of Eastman.

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  • Children's Health

One conversation at a time, pediatricians hope to prevent the spread of infectious diseases

Rural health care providers are often the first, and sometimes only, line of information for parents with questions about their child's health care, including concerns over vaccines.

April 02, 2025
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
drug court grad

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  • Mental Health

After a long journey through accountability court, Middle Georgia graduates prepare for their future

In Georgia, those that make it through accountability court programs — over 1,000 every year — are far less likely to re-enter incarceration and addiction.

August 15, 2024
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Lawsuit presser

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A Georgia inmate died from heat exposure. Left with questions, his family is suing the state

According to the complaint, prison staff were warned that morning about the heat and told not to leave inmates outside too long, or without water.

July 26, 2024
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
The Macon Area Transportation Study Metropolitan Planning Organization seeks input on freight issues to plan for 2050. (Liz Fabian/Macon Newsroom)

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  • News

Have issues with tractor-trailers and freight trains? Time to speak up

Nearly half a million cargo units passed through the Port of Savannah in May and many of them came through Middle Georgia. Macon Area Transportation Study seeks public input in new survey to help meet the challenges of moving goods through 2050.

July 15, 2024
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By:
  • Liz Fabian
Recording artist Stacii Adams

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  • Music

These musicians are filming music video in Macon. Here’s how you can be in the shoot

Grammy Award-winning artist Anthony Hamilton will be part of a music video shoot in Macon, teaming up with Stacii Adams to do a video for Adams’ song “Happy Days.”

July 12, 2024
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By:
  • Myracle Lewis
Dickey Farms employees look at peaches on a conveyor belt at Dickey Farms on Wednesday, July 3, 2024, in Musella, Georgia. Dickey Farms is the oldest, continuously operating peach packinghouse in Georgia and offers tours and sells homemade goods and produce in their shop. KATIE TUCKER/THE TELEGRAPH

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  • News

127-year-old peach farm is 40 minutes from Macon. Ice cream motivates many to make the trip

Forty minutes west of Macon in Musella, there’s an open-air peach packaging building with muggy air, a slightly sweet smell and an abundance of local produce. Dickey Farms has been growing peaches for 127 years. The farm began in 1897 with the planting of its first peach trees by the great-great-grandfather of Lee Dickey, who is the farm’s current vice president.

July 10, 2024
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By:
  • Ava Chatlosh
The Temple Mound Complex at the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historic Park in Macon in May. (Grant Blankenship/GPB News)

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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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By:
  • Dave Williams
The United States District Courthouse sits on Mulberry Street on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, in Macon, Georgia. (Photo/Katie Tucker ktucker@macon.com)

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  • News

Macon rehab center admits to altering records during fraud investigation. Owner pleads guilty

The owner of a Macon area rehabilitation center admitted on Wednesday to ordering two employees to alter documents during a 2019 federal investigation into fraudulent billing, according to the Department of Justice.

June 07, 2024
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By:
  • Lucinda Warnke and
  • Alba Rosa
A Cobb County School Bus.

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  • News

Workers at Georgia bus factory approve first union contract

Workers at the Bluebird bus factory in Fort Valley, Ga., have approved their very first union negotiated labor contract.

May 24, 2024
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
First Quality Baby Products plans to add 600 jobs in a $418 million expansion of its plant on Avondale Mill Road.

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  • News

Macon lands 600 jobs in $418M industry expansion

Earth movers are making way for a major expansion that will bring 600 new jobs to First Quality Baby Products near Middle Georgia Regional Airport. 

May 23, 2024
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By:
  • Liz Fabian
Earl The Elusive Peacock of Middle Georgia.

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  • News

Social media is abuzz with an 'elusive peacock' on the loose in Houston County

They say the chicken crossed the road to get to the other side, but folks in Houston County are asking about why a different bird is wandering about. Wandering the streets is a peacock, leaving onlookers surprised, social media delighted — and animal control on the hunt.

May 07, 2024
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  • WMAZ
Map chart.

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  • News

Study finds most U.S. cities have longer allergy, pollen season. Is Macon one of them?

Spring has sprung. And so have your allergies? Well, it’s pretty common. If you’re experiencing a sore throat, itchy eyes or runny nose, you probably have “hay fever,” or what we commonly refer to as “allergies.” But if you’re a Maconite, there's some good news for you.

April 12, 2024
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By:
  • Chelsea Madden and
  • The Telegraph
Community members and local leaders of Jeffersonville, G.a. gather at the groundbreaking of an expansion to the federally qualified health center in town. The extra space will allow providers to bring more speciality care to the county which ranks in the bottom 10 for health outcomes in the state.

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  • Health Care

Once ranked last in the state for health care, Twiggs County is expanding access

A years-long local collaboration is behind the expansion of a federally qualified health center in Jeffersonville. 

March 14, 2024
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
The William A. Bootle Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Macon.

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  • News

Prosecutors worried gangsters might attack a Georgia jury. Here’s how they protected them

A Macon federal gangster trial last month connected to an Athens murder used an anonymous jury for safety reasons, court documents show, a rarity in the Middle District of Georgia.

September 21, 2023
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  • Micah Johnston
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