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Harper Caroline Lewis represented Georgia Southern University (GS) and Robert Chase Kirkland represented East Georgia State College(EGSC) as USG honorees.

Clint Nessmith commissioned Portrait Artist Lori Grice to create a portrait experience as a gift for his wife Elizabeth.

The Citizens Review Committee tasked with providing feedback on the development of new English Language Arts (ELA) standards for Georgia’s K-12 public schools has released its first set of recommendations.

Synovus bank has partnered with the cast of the Marvelous Wonderettes:Caps and Gowns and the Averitt Center for the Arts to support the Hearts and Hands Clinic.

South Georgia Tormenta FC has announced a preseason schedule of six friendlies as it gears up for the 2022 USL League One season. Tormenta FC kicks off its preseason campaign on Saturday, Feb. 19, at 7 p.m.

The GS chapter of the Student Veterans of America (SVA) is offering hot air balloon rides on GS Sweetheart Circle Friday, February 11, 2022. Be My Sweetheart at Sweetheart Circle The hot air balloon rides is a fundraiser for SVA.

The United States Senate voted Wednesday, February 9, 2022 to confirm Ms. Reta Jo Lewis, a Statesboro, Georgia native, as President and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM).

The Bulloch County Agricultural Complex will host its first ever Ag-Grow Expo on April 1-2, 2022 at the arena on Highway 301 South in Statesboro.

Allie Griffis was crowned Miss Georgia Southern University 2022. She will compete for Miss Georgia later this year. Eight Georgia Southern University students participated, but only one could be named Miss Georgia Southern University.

Tameka Phillips, a first-generation American citizen who hails from New York City, explores multi-culturalism and ethnic identities in her exhibition, “ Human/Abstract ” which is on display through February 28 in the main gallery of the Averitt Cente