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28 Vincent Hancock:
From Georgia to gold
The multi-Olympic medalist skeet
shooter and Eatonton native talks
36 Macon's Knight in
shining armor
The first in a series about Knight
Foundation's Central Georgia
impact
44 Heroes Among Us:
Gerald Fitch
The once-NBA player now
answers to Coach at CGTC
46 Central Georgia's
real-life fairy
godmother
(and friends)
Fairytales and Friends aims to
make dreams come true
52 Cookouts and
Classmates
How Pleasant Hill stays
connected across generations
64 In memoriam:
Tina McElroy Ansa
The Macon native whose writing
inspired the world
66 A jolly Jelly jam
Insiders in the music scene know
Jelly Elephant is the place to be
on a Saturday night
78 He's in our camp
NFL star's Bud Dupree's
commitment to Central Georgia
100 The symphony on
our body politic
MMSO teams up with Macon
mayors for a unique observation
during election season
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