Glenwood
Glenwood, GA · Municipal
courierheraldtoday.com
GBI: Dublin school investigation ‘active and ongoing’
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Georgia Bureau of Investigation confirmed this week that its nearly yearlong investigation into the Dublin City Schools financial crisis is “active and ongoing.”. Dublin District Attorney Harold McLendon requested the GBI investigation in January following a special state examination that confirmed the...
middlegeorgiaceo.com
Demolition on Eisenhower Parkway Opens Area for New Development
Eleven more acres of prime property along Eisenhower Parkway is being prepared to become part of the ongoing rejuvenation of the entire corridor as the former Macon Flea Market and neighboring strip of vacant shops is demolished. Work began in late October, and the buildings are already significantly demolished. The Urban Development Authority (UDA) acquired the property in 2024 to help have more purposeful and strategic development in the area, and to market it in a way that would complement other projects in the area.
i75exitguide.com
I-16/I-75 Interchange Project Update for November 13-21
The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) reports that contractors will continue construction activities related to the I-16/I-75 Interchange Improvement Project next week in Macon-Bibb. Weather and on-site conditions permitting, the scheduled activities beginning Friday, November 13, 2026, through Saturday, November 21, 2026, are listed below. Lane Closure:. Thru November 14...
takingthekids.com
This Georgia City Transforms Its Downtown Into A Free Christmas Wonderland With Over A Million Dancing Lights
Over one million lights dance to holiday music specially arranged by Macon Pops, with each track featuring a local artist. Admission costs exactly nothing. I had to read that twice. The soundtrack comes from a high-energy orchestra that arranged and recorded every note itself. The show runs every hour, every...
Macon Telegraph
The day the presses stopped: Civil War occupation silenced The Telegraph
For four years during the Civil War, Macon had been a vital stronghold for the Confederacy — a bustling rail hub churning out arms and ammunition, warehousing rebel gold and sheltering wounded soldiers in makeshift hospitals. Spared by Gen. William T. Sherman’s destructive march months earlier, the city had swelled with refugees who believed they had found a safe haven. That illusion shattered in April 1865. Bearing down on Middle Georgia were more than 13,000 Union cavalrymen led by Gen. James Harrison Wilson, a 27-year-old West Point graduate intent on obliterating the South’s remaining war factories and rail links. On April 20, federal troops rode into Macon. Under Union occupation, The Telegraph’s newsroom fell silent — and for the only time in its 200-year history, the thumping heartbeat of its printing press stopped. Every warning sign had pointed to this moment. Yet the owner of the city’s largest newspaper had refused to see it coming. The moving appeal In January 1861, when Georgia became the fifth state to secede from the union, the news was greeted with jubilation on the streets of Macon. Though some city’s influential residents were wary, many people paraded through downtown, singing and celebrating. On Jan.