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Mercer officially inaugurates Penny Elkins as new president in ceremony Thursday
Mercer University ushered in a new era of leadership Thursday as Penny L. Elkins was inaugurated as the university’s 19th president during a ceremony in Toney Auditorium. University leaders, students, faculty, staff, alumni and state and local officials gathered Oct. 29 to celebrate Elkins’ inauguration and her vision for the university’s future.
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Macon HS football playoffs are almost here. Who might make the postseason?
With the weather cooling down here in Macon as October wanes, you can feel it in the air — it’s almost time for high school football playoffs. Macon has plenty of teams in the hunt, too, making this part of the season all the more interesting. With only a few games left to go — there are some GIAA schools in Macon which have already completed their regular season schedules — here’s a refresher of how the postseason is set up for both the GHSA and GIAA. For Macon’s public schools, a new power rankings system was put in place this season. The GHSA now uses Post Season Rankings (PSR) determined with a formula to select its 32 playoff teams in each classification, doing away with the old “top four teams in the region” system. Teams do still get an automatic playoff home game if they win the region championship. But the second place spots and other region standings don’t impact seed in this new system, as the rest of the playoff field is arranged solely on PSR rankings. Northeast is the only GHSA team in Macon with a region championship in its sights. The Raiders remained perfect in region
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More than 60 colleges and universities in Georgia are waiving their application fee for the month of November
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Hometown Hero: The Untold Story of Macon Sports Legend Tommy Mixon
The year is 1951. A buzzing crowd of high school basketball fans are packed into the 1,800-seat Heisman Gym, home of the Georgia Tech basketball team. On this day, however, it wasn’t the Yellow Jackets taking the hardwood. It was Macon’s Lanier High School Poets. The all-boys Macon team was facing off against the heavily favored and top-seeded Brown High School from Atlanta.