Laura Corley

Senior accountability reporter for @TheMaconMelody •

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GDOT cam is spot on!

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Proposed maintaining millage rate at 9.575 mills. #Macon

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.@MaconBibbCounty mayor introduces 2027 budget. Watch here: https://t.co/IOfT6YSsZg #Macon

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Good day from the Macon bureau: @ajc

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Christmas 1972: ⁦@allmanbrothers⁩ donated 10 new TVs to the Bibb County Jail. #Macon

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Fifty-one years ago this week in downtown Macon: Gregg Allman out for dinner with his mother, Geraldine, and soon-to-be wife Cher . . .

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I'm not sure why nobody wants to talk on the record about hospital authorities in Georgia, but here's my stab at an explainer with minimal on-record sources: https://t.co/nkKmHQcAt1 #gapol

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Lucas said anyone who knows how to boost red and white blood cell production, please reach out. In jest, Chairman Gary Bechtel said he heard that silence helps do that. All erupted in laughter.

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Macon Water Authority board member Elaine Lucas announced her Leukemia is in remission.

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Early voting in special election for Macon-Bibb County Commission District 5 seat so far anemic. The district has a little more than 12,000 registered voters across Pleasant Hill, Unionville, Vineville, Ingleside, Naper Heights etc. ... Election Day is March 17.

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Board member Desmond Brown proposes a $10 per car parking fee that would increase to $15 per car in 2027.

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Here's the Macon Water Authority's proposed change to admissions fees for public fishing at Javors Lucas Lake.

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Dwight Jones wants to know why we're subsidizing public fishing when we're not meeting our core mission of providing water and sewer.

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The Macon Water Authority board meets now for the first time since CEO Ron Shipman died unexpectedly last month. Here's the business: https://t.co/xPihwMa8Z2

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Here's the business: https://t.co/T3pOYysEI2 #Macon

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The Macon Water Authority board meeting is being live streamed:
https://t.co/wCXVa8Va6N

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.@MaconBibbCounty Board of Elections to hold a special meeting tomorrow to certify the Senate 18 results and set March 17 as the date for the special election to fill the county commission District 5 seat recently vacated by lieutenant governor candidate Seth Clark. #gapol #Macon

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Results #Gapol

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Georgia Senate District 18 race: tabulations are in for Monroe, Crawford and Houston counties. Bibb, Upson and Peach are still counting. #Gapol

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The latest #GaPol