The Independance Day Festival in Warner Robins brings together Middle Georgians to celebrate the Fourth of July with games and musical entertainment.
Arnold Blum plays cards and lounges around Idle Hour Country Club.
Clarence Smith has been working at the stand for four years, arriving at work around 5am. He said he works five or six days each week. The produce he sells is grown in Crisp County, which explains the huge supply of watermelons.
"I meet somebody out, or they see the sign on my car, and it's, 'Oh, you do massage. I see those places around. Wink, wink,' " said Melissa Hamlin, a licensed masseuse for more than 10 years.
Middle Georgians look at and purchase fireworks at the Macon Teen Challenge tent in the Wal-Mart parking lot on Zebulon Road Wednesday afternoon.
A private contractor hired by Macon has collected nearly 200,000 cubic yards of storm debris from the Mother's Day tornado, officials said today, and is only part way through the pick up process.
For a festive Fourth of July dessert, Teddi A. Wohlford suggests a Red White and Blue Brownie Trifle. Her Dark Chocolate-Chocolate Chip Brownies were cut into really small bite-size pieces and layered in a lovely trifle dish with fresh sliced strawberries, blueberries, sweetened whipped cream and a tangy cream cheese and sour cream filling.
Authorities are still trying to solve the missing persons case of Tara Grinstead, a young teacher and former beauty queen who has been missing since Oct. 22, 2005
Students at the International City School of Ballet in Warner Robins in class on Thursday, June 26. Each year the school has sent students to compete at the Youth American Grand Prix, a prestigious international ballet competition.
Someone deliberately set trucks ablaze early this morning at Justin Davis Enterprises off Ga. 247. At about 2:30 a.m. a driver for the fuel hauling company returned to find one tanker truck engulfed in flames in front of the building at 2241 Barnes Road, said David Brown, an arson investigator for the Macon-Bibb County Fire Department. Brown concluded three truck cabs were set on fire and a fourth truck caught fire in the blaze.
Readers share their photos of University of Georgia mascot Uga VI.
Players from Little Leagues around Middle Georgia took the field in Macon on Saturday for the district Little League tournament.
For the first time in a decade, Chuck and Kathy Faircloth got a visit this week from their oldest daughter, her husband and their grandchildren. The length of time between visits isn't that unusual for the family; the fact that none of the people visiting the Faircloths are blood relatives might be, however.
Two years ago, Lee Sanders weighed 240 pounds, and his exercise regime consisted of "drinking beer and grilling out." Two weeks ago, he became the fifth person this year, and the quickest € to finish, a through-hike of the Appalachian Trail.
Uga VI, the biggest and winningest of Georgia’s famed lined of mascots, died Friday in his hometown of Savannah.
This season's 12-year-old all-stars from the Warner Robins American Little League, save for two returnees, are new faces. Their big brothers who won it all in Williamsport, Pa., a summer ago have moved on. So really they are defending champs in name only.
Nine women who work at six massage businesses in Bibb County are facing various charges.
We sampled the opinions of people in downtown Macon on Thursday after the Supreme Court's gun ruling.
The Vine-Ingle all-stars are hosting this year's District 5 tournament. Their playoff opener Saturday night comes against last year's 12-year-old world champions, the Warner Robins American Little League stars.
Players from six area teams including the Macon Little League will be represented in the double-elimination, week-long District 5 Little League tournament that begins this weekend.
Paddle Georgia is on the Flint River this year, including part of it that runs through the midstate.
The Big O Foundation and the Georgia Music Hall of Fame are sponsoring the first Otis Redding music camp for aspiring singer-songwriters.
Players and coaches from Georgia and Georgia Tech were among those in attendance Tuesday at the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame for the Peach State Pigskin Preview.
The Robins Air Force Base POW-MIA organization installed a monument Monday at the Museum of Aviation.
About 30 family and friends gathered in front of City Hall on Monday morning to commemorate the life of Jason Nathan, a Macon native killed a year ago while serving in Iraq.
Flames destroyed the old brick sanctuary of the Lundy Chapel Baptist Church on Monday morning on Forest Hill Road in Macon.
Macon-Bibb County firefighters responded to a fire shortly after 5 a.m. Monday at the Hutchings Career Center on Riverside Drive.
A color guard of Civil War re-enactors was on hand for the observance of the 100-year anniversary of the installation of the Monroe County Confederate Monument on the courthouse square in Forsyth on Saturday afternoon.
Joy Goodman is on the second summer session of her 13th year working with the Perry Player's Youth Theater Workshop. She has been director for the past eight years. This year's play is ' 'Tis The Season.'
Images from the 59th Watermelon Days Festival Thursday, June 19, 2008.
Midnight Black Shoulder peafowls are on a farm in Twiggs County on Tuesday, May 10, 2008.
Johnny Johnson, 71, of Plainfield in northeast Dodge County, has been collecting hats for more than 30 years. He now has 1,156 of them tacked to the walls and ceiling of his two-car garage.
Perry and Warner Robins firefighters responded to a fire in downtown Perry for nearly five hours Saturday, working beyond 10 p.m.
More than 230 people are behind bars following a recent effort by several midstate law enforcement agencies to serve warrants and make arrests for felony crimes.
A two-week schedule of classes at Mossy Creek Middle School offers students in fourth through sixth grades a chance to study things they don't normally cover during the school year, such as archery, doll-making, insects and photojournalism, to name a few.
Magician Arthur Atsma performed Thursday at the Warner Robins and the Perry public libraries as part of the Summer Reading Program. Atsma, originally from Oregon, lives in the Atlanta area and travels the country doing his educational magic programs. His act Thursday encouraged reading and library use. The Houston County Libraries will have a summer full of events. Check the Web site at http://www.houpl.org/html/programs.htm for more information. Atsma's visit was paid for by the Friends of the Library.
Rescue personnel look for Markeiss Williams at the scene where he disappeared in the Ocmulgee River, Thurs., June 12, 2008.
An apartment was damaged in a fire at Woodcreek Apartments on Log Cabin Drive in Macon on Wednesday.
Share your images from your summer vacation. Click here to add your photos to this gallery, or e-mail them to yourphotos@macon.com.
The Telegraph's photographers have chronicled gas prices throughout the years. Here's a look back at how they rose.
A car show was held Saturday in downtown Macon to benefit Old Fort Hawkins.
The Daylily Festival just keeps getting bigger and better each year, said Pat Daniels, manager of Gray Station Better Hometown Inc., who helped spearhead the Daylily Festival five years ago.
Robins Air Force Base is testing a new hydrogen production unit designed to produce alternative fuel.
Crews are making progress repairing the damage that a Mother's Day tornado caused at Westside High School in Bibb County.
From interstates to back roads, it can be hard to tell where the city ends and the country starts as those who work for Middle Georgia law enforcement agencies know.
Images from "Be a Tourist in Your Hometown" Friday evening, May 6, 2008.
Images from the ribbon cutting ceremony for the new World War II Hangar at the Museum of Aviation in Warner Robins Friday morning, May 6, 2008.
Children from the Macon area learned baseball skills like hitting, catching and pitching Friday at the popular Gaudet Baseball Camp at Luther Williams Field in Central City Park.
SCLC members protest gas prices at the BP store on Watson Boulevard at Holly Street Friday afternoon, May 6, 2008.
The best images of the week from our photographers.
Children swim at Freedom Park pool as temperatures break into the 90s on Wednesday, June 4, 2008.
Southeastern American kestrel chicks in Taylor County are getting banded as part of a program to track the numbers of the Georgia kestrel population.
Nestled behind a work shed in Rose Hill Cemetery lies a pile of nearly 20 tombstones. Nobody seems to know how long they've been there, tucked under a black tarp and smudged with dirt.
The Starbase Robins Robotics I Academy met for two days this week in the Century of Aviation Hangar at the Museum of Aviation, time enough for students to assemble a remote-controlled robot.
Flames destroyed half of a duplex at 293 Grosso Ave. at about 5 a.m. Monday.
The Rock and RollMan half Iron Man Triathlon was held Saturday, May 31, 2008 at Lake Tobesofkee.
Houston County's high school graduations were held Saturday, May 31, 2008.
Images from Perry High School's commencement ceremonies Friday night, May 30, 2008.
