“Love is the main thing” is now painted on a retaining wall along Main Street, just down from the Mill Hill East Macon Arts Village, thanks to about 20 students on break from seven schools this week. The new mural is almost across the street from another retaining wall mural painted by other students in […]
Help make a difference next weekend by joining the Community-wide Cleanup on Saturday, March 4. This will be the fifth Community-wide Cleanup since the start of the Clean Streets Matter initiative in 2021. “Keeping our streets and neighborhoods clean is a group effort,” said Mayor Lester Miller. “We hope that by people coming together on […]
First of its kind, the Cherry Blossom Festival is ecstatic to partner with Ryland Environmental to present the Trash Can Trot on Saturday, March 18 at 1:00 p.m. in Downtown Macon. See who is fastest in a trash can (yes, you read that right!) as teams of two race down Cherry Street. Helmets and other […]
From the Macon-Bibb County Industrial Authority: Coca-Cola Bottling Company United, Inc. (UNITED) has officially broken ground on an $85 million investment to its Macon, Georgia facility as announced in December. Coca-Cola UNITED will expand its Macon Coca-Cola warehouse by approximately 260,000 square feet, as well as install the leading-edge Vertique warehousing system that is among […]
From NewTown Macon: Do you love downtown Macon? Are you ready to share the hype? Join the downtown Macon Hype Team! The Downtown Macon Hype Team is composed of community members who share a passion for the progress happening in downtown and a desire to promote it. Hype Team members serve as ambassadors during large […]
On Tuesday, February 21, Mayor Lester Miller and the Commission approved nearly five times more local funding for road resurfacing than has been allocated in years past. “For too many years, a lack of funding meant our roads deteriorated faster than we could fix them, so we are putting millions more into this work to […]
Code for Macon, a community for software developers and technologists, is thrilled to announce the start of its local chapter with a launch event on Friday, February 17th, at 6 pm at the McEachern Art Center, located at 332 2nd Street, Macon, GA. This event will feature the announcement of Code for Macon’s first project […]
The Frank Johnson Recreation Center is celebrating Black History Month with a free family fun night. It’s happening from 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. on Friday, February 17, at the center (2227 Mercer University Drive.) As part of the event, there will be games, a literacy lab, refreshments, music trivia for the grownups, and entertainment. […]
The Pedestrian Safety Review Board (PSRB) is holding the 2023 Pedestrian Summit on Tuesday, February 21, from 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. in Commission Chambers at City Hall (700 Poplar Street). Community members are invited to learn about the history of the PSRB, the education initiatives put in place the first few years, see the […]
Lead With Literacy is inviting families to learn about its Macon Family Time program, which is preparing to start its third cohort. An information session for interested families is being held Friday, February 17 from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. at the Bloomfield-Gilead Recreation Center (1931 Rocky Creek Road). Space in this free 11-week program is […]
