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How to Write for 13WMAZ's Where You Live

How to Write for 13WMAZ's Where You Live

Where You Live is WMAZ's hyperlocal feature. This means that we are helping bring you more community-specific news more often.

We have websites for these communities:

Dooly-Macon County
Hancock-Putnam
Bleckley-Dodge-Pulaski
Twiggs
Sandersville
Milledgeville
Peach-Crawford
Gray-Jones
Forsyth-Monroe
Dublin
Perry 
Warner Robins
Macon
R
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These community websites are a place for you and your community members to share information.

To join our team and share with folks just like yourself, all you have to do is email us your email address and name whereyoulive@13wmaz.com

From there, we set up an account for you. This account lets you log in to your community site and post photo galleries, concerts, community events, 100th birthday parties, your concerns, latest creative projects, how-to advice and anything else you want people in your area to know.

Once you have an account, here are some examples of how you can stay involved Where You Live:

(These are just ideas to get you started. Feel free to come up with your own blog ideas!)

  • Post about your hobby: 
    Exercise 
    Photography 
    Scrapbooking 
    Hunting 
    Fishing 
    Couponing 
    Music reviews 
    Movie reviews 
    Local fashion

 

  • Are you that person who always takes photos at the high school's football games or at community festivals?  You can log in with your new account and create a gallery to show off your photos on our site.
  • Have a story idea that may need a reporter in our newsroom? Send us a news tip by emailing eyewitnessnews@13wmaz.com
  • Where You Live is your space for public conversation.  Feel free to comment on others' articles. New ideas can crop up just from simple conversations with others.
  • See something bizarre around town? Take a (cell phone) photo and post it to your community site! Maybe someone else will know the background story.
  • Add an event to our community calendar. Click "Add an Event"  on your community site's event section.
  • Like" us on Facebook to include your local news, breaking news and weather warnings and watches in your Facebook feed.
  • Follow us on Twitter for breaking news and weather updates.

It's a Pink, Pink, Pink World in Macon

It's a Pink, Pink, Pink World in Macon

 

By Jonathan Dye, Knight Arts Blog

Macon’s International Cherry Blossom Festival is the city’s largest festival and tourist event of the year. Locals enjoy Cherry Blossom as much as visitors, who travel from as far away as France, Taiwan and Japan to see the Yoshino Cherry trees blooming in the “Cherry Blossom Capital of the World.”

The 2013 festival began on Friday, March 15 with an opening ceremony and ribbon cutting in Central City Park. Other Friday events included a Bengal tiger show, a “Spring Spirit” stroll featuring live actors in Riverside Cemetery, lantern-light tours of the Ocmulgee National Monument, and the Cherry Blossom gala with music by the Swingin’ Medallions. Events continue through March 24th.

Monday: Third Street Festivities Moved to Terminal Station

Monday: Third Street Festivities Moved to Terminal Station

The Third Street Cherry Blossom festivities have been moved to Terminal Station.

That's according to the Cherry Blossom Festival's Facebook page.

At the Terminal Station, festival-goers should find free ice cream, Krispy Kreme doughnuts and Coca Cola (while supplies last!) That's from 11:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m.

Macon Film Guild to host screening of ‘Amour’ at Douglass Theatre

By Jonathan Dye/Knight Arts Blog

 

Cherry Blossom Festival iPhone App Available

Cherry Blossom Festival iPhone App Available

MACON, GA.-This year's Cherry Blossom Festival iPhone app is ready to go!

In your iPhone app store: search "cherry blossom macon."  It's a free download.

The app features events by day on a map, tours and tickets. You can even get more information on this year's festival royalty.

Rutland Middle Hosting Second Annual Miss Hurricanes Pageant

 

Second Annual Miss Hurricanes Pageant

 

Date: Saturday, March 16, 2013

 

Location: Rutland Cafetorium (lunchroom)

 

Time: 6:00 p.m. until 8:15 p.m.

 

Cost: Advance tickets- $3.00 for Bibb County students and $5.00 for adults

 

At the door ticket prices- $5.00 for Bibb County students and $7.00 for adults

 

All Bibb County students and their families are invited to support this event.

 

Sponsored by the RMS Community Committee.

Farm to Table Benefit Dinner to Feature Mulberry Street Market Items

Farm to Table Benefit Dinner to Feature Mulberry Street Market Items

 

Health Care Central Georgia Inc. d/b/a Community Health Works (CHW) and The Moonhanger Group will host a Farm to Table Benefit Dinner on Monday, April 8th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm at The Armory Ballroom. The dinner will feature an elegant four-course menu prepared with fresh, locally-grown and raised seasonal items harvested from the Mulberry Market.

Community Health Works has partnered with Bibb County 4-H to host a Silent Auction at the benefit dinner. Proceeds from the Silent Auction will directly benefit the Bibb County Cooperative Extensions' youth development program.