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Huge new restaurant nearing opening at Macon Mall

Construction workers are scurrying around inside the cavernous Smok'n Pig BBQ restaurant at the Macon Mall installing the lighting, seating and kitchen equipment. The Valdosta-based restaurant is about two weeks away from completing construction of its 15,000-square-foot eatery that will seat about...

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Bibb school system considers deal with controversial Singleton group

In his Macon Miracle school improvement plan, Superintendent Romain Dallemand said he wants to hire the Pacific Educational Group to close the achievement gap between white and Asian students and those of color, primarily blacks and Latinos.
MILITARY

Houston, Bibb JROTC units won’t retreat, despite budget setbacks

WARNER ROBINS -- Nothing in the Air Force these days seems beyond reach of budget cuts, even the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps.
LOCAL & STATE

NewTown’s reach has exceeded its grasp in downtown Macon

When a little nonprofit was founded 16 years ago to make a new town out of Macon, it sought to fill block after block of empty downtown buildings.
ELECTIONS

Poll: Gingrich set to win Georgia primary

Newt Gingrich is poised to win Georgia’s Republican presidential primary on Tuesday, but voters here doubt that he has the best shot at unseating Barack Obama in November, a new poll for The Georgia Newspaper Partnership shows.
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Macon bar to be site of Eastwood movie scene

Clint Eastwood is about to make a Macon bar owner’s day. The world famous actor and director is going to have lunch and a drink at Cheers, 3852 Northside Drive, while filming his movie, “Trouble With the Curve,” in Macon.
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Dallemand’s tenure packed with trips near and far

Expense reports, credit card statements, and hotel and flight bills obtained by The Telegraph -- more than 1,000 pages -- show a pattern of frequent travel since Dallemand became superintendent of the Bibb County school system in February 2011.
LOCAL & STATE

Grisamore: The letters came home but he didn’t

In the letters he wrote home, Jerome “Jerry” Blumberg would tell stories about Patton’s Army and the march across Europe.
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA

Football taken from him, Sturdivant enters the real world

ATHENS -- Trinton Sturdivant does not sound sad. Nor does he sound like a man who curses his fate or who wonders why it happened to him not once, but three times.
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Hopefuls line up for extra tryouts at Luther Williams Field for Eastwood film

Brad Lord, the head football coach at Howard Middle School, took it in stride when he didn’t land one of the extra parts for a baseball drama starring Clint Eastwood.
WEEKEND'S BEST

Despite high unemployment in Macon metro area, jobs go unfilled

Despite a near double-digit jobless rate, the Macon metro area actually grew 500 jobs over the past year.