Local News

A new scholarship fund designed specifically for the spouses of military service members has been established at Georgia Southern University.

Friday marked a grim milestone for Bulloch County. We reported the 171st death of a Bulloch County citizen to COVID. Throughout 2020 , in what then seemed to be a startling number, 57 Bulloch citizens died from COVID.

Natalia D’Angelo got sick right after school started in August. She was driving a school bus for special education students in Griffin-Spalding County School System about 40 miles south of Atlanta and contracted Covid-19.

Bulloch County Sheriff's Office reported a couple was arrested after they gave drugs to an inmate who was working at a local recycling center.

The City of Statesboro and Bulloch County will host a ribbon cutting to mark the reopening of Reverend W.D. Kent Park, 1 West Grady Street on Friday, September 24, 2021, at 4:00 p.m.

There is a new exhibition in the Main Gallery of the Averitt Center Main Building. This exhibition is displaying the beautiful landscape paintings of local artist Crystal Holman. It will be on display through October 31st.

East Georgia State College’s (EGSC) clubs and organizations will be hosting a car wash for hurricane relief. The car wash will be Thursday, September 30 from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m.

Grice Connect began getting reports Sunday morning regarding extensive vandalism that occurred during the night on the popular S&S Greenway walking trail . A driver entered the walking trail near Olive Garden restaurant.

Stephanie Lastinger, LPN, was recently awarded the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses at East Georgia Regional Medical Center . Stephanie first started at EGRMC in 2018, and now works as a nurse on the Medical/Surgical Unit.

Before sunrise on Saturday morning, September 20, 2021, Feed the Boro ( FTB ) volunteers were unloading a tractor trailer load of food from Second Harvest Food Bank.