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Eli Compton of Statesboro High School and Emiline Wayde Baxter of Savannah Country Day School are both named as Region 8's STAR Student Winners.

After two days of budget presentations from Bulloch County department leaders, the real work begins for County staff and Bulloch County Commissioners to determine what needs they can fund without raising taxes. Click on the picture to read overviews of presentations.

Georgia Southern University Director of Athletics Jared Benko and head women's basketball coach Anita Howard have come to a mutual agreement that a change of leadership in the women's basketball program has been made. A nationwide search for new head coach will begin immediately.

Under the guidance of College of Education faculty members, Calvin Walton, Ph.D., Alisa Leckie, Ph.D., and Tracy Linderholm, Ph.D., and members of Georgia Southern’s Call Me MiSTER program, which focuses on attracting underrepresented individuals to the teaching profession, children from Largo-Tibet Elementary in Savannah enjoyed the "Teacher for a Day" program on the Armstrong Campus.

Amber Stewart of Renasant Bank shared her banking wisdom with Ogeechee Technical College Business Management students during their Introduction to Business class.

The Georgia General Assembly has allocated just over $6 million for special harbor improvements at the Port of Brunswick as part of the state’s midyear budget adjustment. Governor Brian Kemp signed the funding bill into law on February 29.

Representative Butch Parrish shares a legislative update and photos from his week under the Gold Dome.

Households where all adult members are 65 or older or all adult members are medically homebound may apply beginning April 1, 2024, at 9am. All other low-income households may apply beginning May 1, 2024, if funds are available.

The bill not only mandates the State Board of Education to establish a program for the Department of Education to allocate funds for eligible teachers to purchase school supplies online but also requires all schools to utilize a free-of-charge universal screener for literacy.