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How to Write for 13WMAZ's Where You Live

Submitted by Jacqueline Harnevious, 13WMAZ Community Web Producer

Tuesday, March 19th, 2013, 7:00am

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 obins AFB

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.

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Andalusia Farm Blog: A Cool College Visits

Submitted by Jacqueline Harnevious, 13WMAZ Community Web Producer

Monday, January 28th, 2013, 10:00am

Andalusia Farm Blog: A Cool College Visits

Every year or so around this time a group of students from Centre College visits Andalusia. And I must say I look forward to their visit more than just about any other group that comes out here. Tuesday morning was no exception as the big blue bus with the Kentucky thoroughbred painted on the side rumbled up the driveway. ... Read More

Continue reading this article on Andalusia Farm's Blog

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Travis Denning Band to Perform at Buffingtons

Submitted by Jacqueline Harnevious, 13WMAZ Community Web Producer

Friday, January 25th, 2013, 10:00am

Hailing from Macon, the Travis Denning Band returns to Buffingtons Friday for a night of music.

The band performs from 11p.m.-2 a.m.

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Look What We Found: Print about Milledgeville

Submitted by Jacqueline Harnevious, 13WMAZ Community Web Producer

Friday, January 11th, 2013, 12:58pm

Look What We Found: Print about Milledgeville

Look what we found! A print featuring Flannery O'Connor's quotation about Milledgeville.

We initially saw it on Pinterest, but then found out that a woman sells these prints on Etsy.

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Milledgeville Named Runnerup for 'South's Most Creative Small Towns'

Submitted by Jacqueline Harnevious, 13WMAZ Community Web Producer

Monday, November 5th, 2012, 11:42am

Milledgeville Named Runnerup for 'South's Most Creative Small Towns'

The magazine Garden & Gun highlighted 'The South's Most Creative Small Towns.'

Earning the Runnerup spot, Milledgeville received a nod for Flannery O'Connor's life there, "forever assur[ing] its place on the Southern literary map."

The magazine mentions Andalusia and how it's still open to the public and Georgia College's literary journal, Art & Letters.

Garden & Gun named Hillsborough, North Carolina as the Best Literary Town for having "more critically acclaimed authors per capita than any zip code in the region."

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PHOTOS | Dragon*Con

Submitted by Jacqueline Harnevious, 13WMAZ Community Web Producer

Friday, September 7th, 2012, 2:01pm

by Danielle Davey

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First 'Taste of Milledgeville' Event Debuts on First Friday

Submitted by City of Milledgeville Main Street/ DDA, Main Street

Monday, August 20th, 2012, 4:23pm

First 'Taste of Milledgeville' Event Debuts on First Friday

Milledgeville, GA- Milledgeville Main Street will host the very first ‘Taste of Milledgeville’ during the September First Friday event on Friday, September 7th. ‘Taste of Milledgeville’ will offer food samples from many different restaurants in Baldwin County, giving Taste attendees a wide variety of samples to choose from. So, food lovers be sure to arrive with an empty stomach!

‘Taste of Milledgeville’ will be a fundraiser for the Milledgeville Main Street Program and the First Friday Committee. Main Street is a nonprofit organization that was created for the preservation and enhancement of our City’s Center. Each taste will cost one ticket. Tickets for the event will be $1 each and Taste attendees can purchase as many or as few tickets as they would like. There will also be live entertainment and activities for kids during the event.

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