Questions remain about promise center spending

Submitted by Elise Brown, Multimedia Journalist

Friday, March 7th, 2014, 6:45pm

A hefty portion of the money detailed in the Bibb County School audit has to do with the Macon Promise Neighborhood Initiative. That program is a collaboration among some local groups to improve education and the quality of life in a couple of Macon neighborhoods.

The audit states Dallemand agreed to $19 million in in-kind donations to the initiative.

In-kind generally means donating services. For example, if the system already had a tutoring program with 30 kids, the promise neighborhood could add another 30 to the program without requiring any additional funding. Those donations were meant as the local match for a $5 million federal grant.

But that grant never came through, so the donations never happened. The collaborative's former Executive Director, Clifford Whitby, doesn't understand why the issue is being brought up again in the audit.

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Submitted by 13WMAZ Web Staff

Friday, March 7th, 2014, 6:30pm

Former Bibb schools Supt. Romain Dallemand won't be traveling from sunny Haiti to snowy Connecticut this week.

Dallemand was scheduled to speak at a educational-reform conference March 7 and 8 at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn.

But the dean of the college's school of education said this week it was canceled.

Jim Carl said the conference was organized and then canceled by a couple of Sacred Heart faculty members who decided they could not pull the gathering together in time. Carl said he was unaware of recent controversies surrounding Dallemand and did not believe they were related to the cancellation.

The educators' "summit" was sponsored by a group called the School District Reform Collaborative.

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Submitted by 13WMAZ Web Staff

Friday, March 7th, 2014, 3:35pm

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Perdue Animal Welfare officers were at the site where a semi-truck carrying chickens overturned Friday morning

The accident occurred at about 10:30 a.m. at the Spring Street-I-16 on ramp. The truck was headed to Perdue Farms in Perry. ID=6166427

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Friday, March 7th, 2014, 3:30pm

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State Attorney General to speak at Wesleyan

Submitted by 13WMAZ Web Staff

Friday, March 7th, 2014, 3:16pm

Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens will be speaking at Wesleyan College at 9 a.m. Saturday.

He will be giving a legal update and discussing topics such as pill mills, sex trafficking, and federal overreach, according to a news release.

The event will take place in Porter Auditorium.

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Submitted by 13WMAZ Web Staff

Friday, March 7th, 2014, 2:52pm

A Macon lawyer has qualified to run for the Bibb County civil & magistrate judge's job that William Randall has held for 14 years.

She is Emory Christian, who says she's been a lawyer for 25 years. According to her announcement, Christian is a former Houston County prosecutor, and has worked as a justice advisor and mentor in Afghanistan for the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, U.S. Department of State Bureau.

Randall, who was also a state legislator for 25 years before taking the magistrate's job in 1999, also qualified to run for re-election.

Qualifying for county positions closed at noon Friday.

Bibb County voters are scheduled to decide three others races in a May 20 primary:

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Submitted by 13WMAZ Web Staff

Friday, March 7th, 2014, 1:42pm

Nikki Randall, Epps facing election challengers

New challengers stepped up Thursday to run against two Central Georgia state legislators.

House District 142: Gerald Harvey of Macon qualified to run against incumbent Nikki Randall. They're both Democrats. Harvey is a former Macon city council member who ran against Randall in 2012. He says he is retired. The district covers parts of Bibb County. The two will meet in the May 20 Democratic primary.

House District 143: Incumbent James Beverly and former Bibb County Commissioner Lonzy Edwards will meet in the May 20 Democratic primary. Edwards is a lawyer and minister. Beverly, an eye doctor, is seeking a third term. The district covers parts of Bibb County.

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