18 maconmagazine.com | OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2023
Also inside
14 Editor's letter
26 Faces
30 Local buzz
36 My Macon:
Downtown Insider
Guides - Ashley Pancake
90 Macon chose me:
Nathan Lott
96 Top 10 in the 478
104 Senior stars:
standout high
school athlete
Jarvis Robinson of
Central High School
THE LEADERSHIP ISSUE
MACON'S POSITIVE
INFLUENCERS
GET TO KNOW OUR
5 UNDER 40 YOUNG LEADERS
INSIGHTS FROM
MAYOR MILLER
OUR C OMMUNITY ISSUE
E D U CATO R S | J O U R NAL I STS | VETE R AN S | ADVO CATE S | ARTI STS
PLUS: 11 HANDY HIKES, A GRATITUDE GUIDE & COUNTLESS CULTURE PICKS
Client: Atrium Health
Job No: ATRB-14110
Title: Live Fully Band
Bibb Count y School District
2023 Teacher of the Year
Kimberly Barton
MACON
MAGAZINE
CELEBRATING
LOCAL
SOUL
OUR
COMMUNITY
ISSUE
OCTOBER/NOVEMBER
2023
ON THE COVER
COVER PHOTO BY MATT ODOM
This edition's Hero in her colorful fourth-grade
classroom. Read more on page 88.
Contents | OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2023
66 86
74