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How does this December in the Boro compare to the warmest on record? Stacker used data from the National Centers for Environmental Information to identify the 15 Decembers with the highest average temperature since 1895.

AgSouth has announced the most recent Growing Our Communities grant recipients. Southeast Bulloch High School's FFA program received a grant, as well did Screven County Christian Academy in Sylvania.

Haley McNure with The Cottages at Bethany coordinated a village of volunteers to make sure every nursing home resident in Statesboro had a gift to open on Christmas morning.

From its processing and packing plant in the heart of Georgia peanut country, Mana Nutrition makes a peanut butter-based product, fortified with protein and vitamins, called Ready to Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF), which plays a key role in producing a shelf-stable food for severely malnourished children.

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Grice Connect Senior Reporter Michele LeBlank saw first hand the blessings Christmas gifts to our Senior Adults made possible by the generosity of so many. Many of these Senior Adults would not have received anything for Christmas had it not been for the generosity of strangers.

Community members are stepping up to provide immediate assistance to the family of seven, including five children, who suffered a significant house fire on Christmas Eve. Click on the picture to read more.

Bulloch County Public Safety officials are reporting nearby sightings of a sleigh pulled by nine reindeer. They are advising the children of Bulloch County to get ready for bed! LIVE NORAD tracking feed inside the story. It is time to prepare for Santa's visit!

The Special Olympics Unified Sports program focuses on promoting social inclusion through shared sports training and competition experiences and joins people with and without intellectual disabilities on the same team. Teams are currently being established through each state’s Special Olympics program. Tormenta FC is looking for male and female athletes 16 years and older with intellectual disabilities to be a part of the South Georgia Tormenta FC Unified Team.

For the project, the school’s third and fourth graders will research plants native to Georgia’s Piedmont ecoregion to then plan, install and manage a garden to attract a variety of pollinators. The garden will be used as an outdoor classroom, where older students will teach younger students about pollinators, native plants and biodiversity. Summer campers will work in the garden when school is out of session, and proceeds from a farmer’s market next fall will fund future garden projects.