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Pickleball tournament draws athletes from across U.S. to Macon Mall

The tournament brought hundreds of players from locales like Long Island and Texas to Macon's new courts.

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The folks who make Macon a fascinating place to live

Macon is full of fascinating people creating interesting art, entertainment, music and related work. These people, and those like them who come to town, are why there’s always something going on worthy of attention in Macon and Middle Georgia.

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No audit, poor oversight cripple organization tasked with reducing poverty

The Community Enhancement Authority was given millions of tax dollars to fight poverty in Pleasant Hill. Eight years later, it's no longer managing the Little Richard House, two parks or the Booker T. Washington Center.

Nearly 50 years later, Macon reconnects with its moon tree

In 1971 on the Apollo 14 mission, hundreds of seeds were taken to space. Forty-eight years ago, one of the seedlings was planted in Macon. It's more than 80 feet tall today. Here's is the story of the Moon Tree.

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I’m just a bill: The legislative process behind creating Georgia’s first national park

Here's what needs to happen in Congress to establish Georgia's first national park, headquartered in Macon.

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‘Face it with courage’: Through a brand-new diagnosis, tennis legend Jaime Kaplan keeps fighting

Kaplan, a former pro standout and now revered coach at Stratford, will undergo more radiation treatment later this year.

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Ocmulgee Mounds National Park to redefine how communities, Native Nations work together

Macon could soon become the center of Georgia's first national park. Ocmulgee Mounds National Park is a fundamentally new way that local, state and federal governments can work with Indigenous Nations to co-manage conserved land.

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PHOTOS: Atrium Health Navicent holds community food distribution

Hundreds of automobiles lined up along Eisenhower Parkway as Atrium Health held a free food distribution event June 21.

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Where to celebrate Fourth of July in Middle Georgia

A list of Fourth of July celebrations in Middle Georgia

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‘Cybersecurity attack’ continues to cause outages in Macon-Bibb network after over a month

County commissioners approved a $132,400 contract with a cybersecurity company to monitor for suspicious activity

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