The Middle Georgia Community Food Bank feeds folks across 24 different counties through partnerships with 200 nonprofit organizations including food pantries, emergency shelters, soup kitchens, backpack programs, churches and group homes.
The former hotel — a 200,000-square-foot building at First and Walnut streets — has loomed over downtown for 50 years. The county commission authorized the purchase of the property in January and Target Contractors LLC will carry out the demolition.
For nearly $2.5 million, Macon-Bibb County has contracted with Target Contractors, LLC to implode a 16-story vacant hotel in downtown Macon on New Year's Day at 9 a.m.
County leaders, architects and developers sought feedback from the community on development plans for the East Bank project.
With Thanksgiving right around the corner, local organizations and businesses are gearing up to give back to the community. Here's a list of locations throughout Macon where folks can find a meal kits or a hot plate of food for the holiday season.
A Senate version of the legislation that would redesignate Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park as a full national park and create a federal preserve passed out of the Senate’s energy and natural resources committee Tuesday morning.
Heritage Elementary School and Shaome Cooperative have collaborated to launch a pilot program at the school aimed to educate students about food security and backyard gardens.
Senior editor at Penguin Random House, Ginny Smith Younce and Stratford Academy parents discussed the negative mental health effects of social media and the internet on Generation Z. Younce presented some of the solutions found in Jonathan Haidt's New York Times bestselling book, "The Anxious Generation."
Tethel White Brown co-founded Montessori of Macon and was the first African American editor of The Macon Telegraph's Georgia Living section. Her family and friends remember her as someone who always gave her all and encouraged folks to be their best.
Folks came together Monday morning at the historic Linwood Cemetery to honor those who served in the military. The Veterans Day ceremony took place near the final resting place of Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Rodney M. Davis.
