Friends and family honored the life of a prominent local activist on Friday. A balloon release was held in Chris Wells' honor at Gospel Missionary Church.
Dr. Martin Luther King’s walk up the seven steps to New Zion would be his last walk in Macon. It came on one of the final Georgia stops of a blow-through-town campaign for the poor. It was 1968.
With the Dec. 11 runoff election just nine days away, the candidates and the political action committees behind them are wasting no time getting out their last-minute messages mostly in the form of attacks. Though not officially on the ballot, the construction of an 89-bed special needs jail is at the heart of this […]