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Watch the Gainesville Red Elephants face off against the Milton Eagles in the Region 7-5A showdown on GPB-TV or streaming at GPB.org and on the GPB Sports App, Facebook, YouTube and Twitch. This week's Stream Game is the St. Pius X vs. Martist matchup. Watch that game live at GPB.org, YouTube or the GPB Sports App. You can also find the latest high school football news, updates, scores and more at GPB.org and on the GPB Sports App.

In a powerful story of healing and forgiveness, poet and LGBTQ+ activist Staceyann Chin reimagines motherhood after abandonment, journeying across cities to seek her elusive mother while building a new sense of home with her own daughter.

Learn about the life and career of 4-time Emmy nominee Marlee Matlin as she shares her story in her native American Sign Language. Known for roles in The West Wing and CODA, at 21 years old, Matlin became the first Deaf actor to win an Oscar.

A French explorer makes an unprecedented discovery in Alexandria’s harbor that could reveal vital new information about Cleopatra’s reign and her connection with the goddess Isis.

As the world has changed, so has the way we grow our food, what we understand about our food and how we deliver this food to our communities and beyond. This week we explore a variety of greens in Georgia, from lettuce grown in a multitude of ways, to fields of greens and cruciferous cabbage kept cold and fresh from the field to your local market.

● Jacques Pepin: Fast Food My Way
Master chef Jacques Pépin demonstrates making elegant and inexpensive meals in minutes. From soups and salads to main courses and desserts, Chef Pépin prepares complete meals using French culinary technique with smart shortcuts that don’t sacrifice taste or style.

● Cooking with Claudine
Jacques Pépin instructs his daughter Claudine in simple, elegant meals that suit her graduate student budget and busy lifestyle. Each episode combines French culinary tradition with home-style cooking as Jacques shares techniques, tips and Pépin family stories with Claudine.

● One Step from Heaven
Francesco, Emma and Vincenzo are pulled into a web of secrets, betrayal and personal reckonings in Season 4. Love, loyalty and identity are on the line as threats from the past resurface, causing the friends to confront old wounds. In Italian with English subtitles.

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The Office of Cultural Affairs for the Town of Hilton Head Island and the Arts Council of Hilton Head will hold its ninth Annual Crescendo Celebration of Arts & Culture this year.

This regional event, organized in honor of October’s National Arts and Humanities month, highlights and showcases the vast array of arts, culture and history organizations, individual artists, performers and authors residing and working on Hilton Head Island. Click here to learn more.

A $500,000 Norfolk Southern gift has brought together the Atlanta History Center and the Georgia Historical Society in a first-of-its-kind archival exchange, reuniting long-separated records from the Central of Georgia and Southern Railway collections. Read more.

In this episode, you’ll hear from families who are still searching for answers, alongside the clinicians and researchers working to understand the health consequences of the BioLab fire in Conyers, Georgia. We examine the symptoms that residents continue to report, why traditional single-chemical testing can fall short after a fire that releases many different toxins and what emerging studies reveal about the long-term impact on community health.

Peter and Orlando talk with Georgia writer and longtime teacher Alan Caldwell to discuss his first poetry collection, The Only Verse. You hear Caldwell read “Running for No Reason” and we explore how his work faces depression, grief, marriage and memory with clarity and care. We also trace his path from fiction to the Carrollton Just Poetry group and discuss how story and image power his poems.

Hurricane season is here in the Southeast, and won’t be over until the end of November. Salvation South magazine recently published a story by a woman in Macon who, as a hurricane roared up from Florida years ago, told people on social media her doors were open to evacuees. We all love the idea of “Southern hospitality” when it comes to our friends. But complete strangers? Chuck is here with some thoughts. 

Ahead of The Moth Mainstage in December, GPB attended an Atlanta StorySLAM to learn how The Moth brings communities together. Read more.

This week on the Georgia Today podcast, Candidates vying to be the next mayor of Atlanta squared off in a televised debate, with one familiar face missing from the stage, a judge has given more time to find a new prosecutor for the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and Savannah Bananas will announce their 2026 tour schedule in a live broadcast tonight. Listen and subscribe.  

Milton head coach Ben Reaves shares how mindfulness, yoga and a homegrown feeder pipeline fuel the Eagles as they host Gainesville on senior night. Gainesville head coach Josh Niblett explains the Red Elephants’ week‑to‑week standard, while Houston County’s Jeremy Edwards breaks down the Bears’ best start and bye‑week plan before a brutal stretch. Plus, region storylines from South Georgia and a quick nod to Marist legend Alan Chadwick reaching 450 wins. Listen here.