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Georgia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities is partnering with a Macon-based provider to open a health care center specifically for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, or IDD. ....
Blight removal to help expand Booker T. Washington Community Center Macon-Bibb County is making areas surrounding the Booker T. Washington Community Center cleaner and safer by demolishing three blighted homes next door. July 8, 2021 MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Macon-Bibb County is making areas surrounding the Booker T. Washington Community Center cleaner and safer by demolishing three blighted homes next door. 60 children attend the center’s youth programs each day. Kids like Naiem Moore have to pass dilapidated homes on their walk to the center. “I feel like something needs to be done about these houses,” Moore said. “Nobody really thinks about building these houses up around this neighborhood.” ....
21 things to look for in 2021 – Part 3 Bibb County Sheriff David Davis hopes a new Outreach Center will help curb violent crime after a record number of homicides in 2020. Author: Liz Fabian (13WMAZ) Updated: 11:31 AM EST January 3, 2021 MACON, Ga. 15. Normalcy sought after record homicides After the record number of homicides eclipsed 50 in 2020, Bibb County Sheriff David Davis is looking forward to the new year. “Some of those underlying conditions – COVID, lockdowns and uneasiness created kind of a tragic situation here locally but we hope to get normalcy back,” Davis said. “We’re seeing strange behaviors all across the country.” Shortly after the first of the year, Davis will announce promotions for his staff which he said has been “doing a good job” with the resources and manpower available. ....