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On 1/28/21 at 7:41 p.m. SPD officers were dispatched to Blakewood Apartments on East Olliff Street in Statesboro for a male shot at that location.

High placement rates in the Echocardiography program at Ogeechee Technical College (OTC) are due in part to a recently acquired cardiac ultrasound simulator that allows students to work and assess real world scenarios in the classroom.

For Georgia seniors, the COVID vaccine rollout has been rocky at best. Yet an increasing number of people 65 and older living in the community and in long-term care facilities now are receiving COVID-19 vaccinations.

Bulloch County reports three COVID-19 deaths today which brings the total to 74; 45 PCR & 29 Rapid Antigen deaths. Bulloch County also reports 71 new positive cases in the last 24 hours, a percent positive of 15.5% & a 14-day average of 434.

Tanner Peebles, an alumnus of East Georgia State College (EGSC), has been accepted into the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine on the Moultrie Campus. Peebles plans to become a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine.

On January 15th, Governor Brian Kemp appointed Jake Futch of Statesboro to serve on the Georgia Board of Funeral Service for a six year term. Jake is currently the Bulloch County Coroner, a post he has served since first being elected to in 1999.

Georgia NAACP President and Georgia Southern University alumnus Rev. James “Major” Woodall (’18), will serve as the University’s 2021 Martin Luther King Jr. celebration speaker. On Jan.

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Forest Heights Pharmacy in Statesboro received 300 doses of COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday. Owner Ben Ross set a goal to get them out as quickly as possible into the community.

Ogeechee Technical College hosted ten hand-selected individuals to pilot a program geared toward attaining a Microsoft Azure Fundamentals certification .