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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.
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Bibb students, teachers try to get Macon teens to the ballot box
At 17, Northeast High student Ja’Cora Anderson is already counting down the days to her half-birthday in November, when she can register to vote. She’ll be a step closer to having a say in decisions shaping her future. “I feel like voting is not something we should take lightly because we weren’t always given that right,” she said. “We need that right, so we should use it.” But that eagerness is not shared throughout her school, Anderson said. Some of her classmates show little interest, despite local organizations’ sustained voter registration efforts on campus. The challenge is reflected in Macon-Bibb County’s turnout figures . In early voting so far, just 599 voters ages 18 to 24 have cast ballots for the Nov. 3 midterm election, a turnout rate of 0.5%, according to the Georgia secretary of state’s office. The group’s turnout was 1% in the May 2026 primary election and fell to 0.3%, or 337 votes, in the June primary runoff. From high schools to college campuses, many students aim to show their peers the impact they can have on a community. “My voice matters,” said Anderson, a three-year participant in Macon-Bibb County’s Georgia Civic Awareness Program for Students, which
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from Lanier to Mercer: The story of Macon hometown hero 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. “Everyone was saying the Lanier High Poets were staying in the tournament on borrowed time,” The Macon Telegraph reported at the time. Many fans never expected the Poets to be in this situation, and it seemed clear to most that their run would end at the hands of Brown. It was assumed that Brown, being from the bigger city, would simply have the superior talent and would handle Macon’s team with ease. To add to the pressure, the Poets would be playing in a hostile environment that night unlike anything they had played in before, as only about 400 of the nearly 2,000 fans were there to support the boys from Lanier. “The Poets were booed lustily,” the Telegraph wrote. “Everytime they walked on the floor and every time they stepped up to make a free throw.”