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State Labor Commissioner Mark Butler said that the preliminary unadjusted unemployment rate in the metro Macon area decreased to 10.0 percent in March, down two-tenths of a percentage point from a revised 10.2 percent in February. The jobless rate in the metro Macon area in March a year ago was also 10.2 percent.

The rate decreased because there were fewer layoffs in construction and retail trade. That's according to a Georgia Department of Labor news release.

“The unemployment rates rate decreased in Macon, as well as in all of the state’s other 24 local areas,” said Butler. “This is encouraging, and hopefully indicates that a modest recovery may be building throughout the state.”

The lowest rate, at 7.3 percent was in metro Athens, while the highest rate, at 11.7 percent, was in the Heart of Georgia – Altamaha region around Dublin.

Some 13-year-olds are causing a buzz around Central Georgia.

They're periodical cicadas -- insects that have lived underground for 13 years only to emerge this spring, mate, lay eggs and die sometime this summer.

People in north Macon, Jones County, and some other areas say their high-pitched buzzing is causing a racket around the region.

Nancy Hinkle of UGA's Department of Entomology is tracking the cicadas' emergence and offers these facts about them:

-- The periodical cicadas, which live on a 13-year cycle, are smaller than the so-called "dog day" cicadas that emerge every summer. But their numbers make them seem louder.

-- Periodical cicadas emerge in the spring, have black bodies, bright red eyes and orange-veined wings.

-- Cicada nymphs emerge from the ground, crawl up trees, shed their skins, and fly to the treetops from which the males call for mates. Females reply with wing clicks to lure in the males.