Lizella News

Actions Taken by the Georgia State Construction Industry Licensing Board Division of Low Voltage Contractors at its June 23 Meeting Macon, Ga.

Kim Carver of Milledgeville, Ga., won the Walmart Bass Fishing League Bulldog Division tournament on Lake Eufaula Saturday with a five-bass catch weighing 21 pounds even.

It's almost Father's Day, and many moms are searching for those last minute gifts.

Dennis Floyd was surprised when the new property assessment on his Lizella home showed the value had more than doubled to nearly $153,000. He was even more surprised to find out why.

You all did it to me - again! About the time I decide it is time for me to hang up my adjunct instructor position at FVSU and move onto some job less challenging, you run an article about someone or something that gives me goose bumps, brings tears to my eyes and convinces me I need to go back for another semester.

Words matter. I have been dismayed by the increasingly low level of discourse from our state and local leaders.

New pieces of plywood make up the seats on the bleachers and in the dugouts at the Macon Little League ballpark on Anthony Road.

Several old school buildings will soon be out of the hands of the Bibb County school system since an auction drew buyers for three of four schools that were up for sale.

A Lizella man is dead after a Sunday evening accident on Sardis Church Road. Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones says that Keith Burnam was riding his 2004 Harley Davidson motorcycle around 7:45 p.m. when he lost control and crashed.

LIZELLA For six generations, the Merritt family has thrown clay onto spinning wheels, turning it into pots, jugs, bowls and other pieces of art.

White envelopes are scattered on the floor inside the old principal's office, and there are boxes full of football helmets in the hallway and odds and ends stored in the gymnasium.

Two people have been charged with aggravated assault in connection with the Friday night stabbing of a Lizella man, according to the Macon police.

People across Central Georgia are reporting flooded yards, swollen streams and roads under water Thursday.

A Bibb County grand jury has indicted a 32-year-old Macon man charged with sexually assaulting a woman late last year after driving her to a deserted road in Lizella.

Bibb County sheriff's deputies have issued arrest warrants for a man suspected in a series of bank burglaries across the midstate, and in Columbus and east Alabama, according to authorities.

Almost 40 years ago, sheriff's departments across the country began Neighborhood Watch Programs.

The Bibb County Sheriff's Office wants to know who steals coins from banks. Early Friday morning someone tried to break into two banks in Bibb County, and another in Crawford County.

Thieves targeted at least three more banks overnight in Bibb and Crawford counties.

Trustees have been named to the Macon State College Foundation for three-year terms.

The ice and snow that hit Middle Georgia on Sunday played a factor in two separate automobile accidents that took place within a few miles of each other in Monroe County, authorities said.