Local News

A winner will be picked from each of four age divisions: primary (pre-K-second grades), elementary (third-fifth), middle school (sixth-eighth) and high school. One winner will be awarded the grand prize: Their artwork will appear on the 2024 Youth Birding Competition T-shirt and they’ll receive a $100 Amazon gift card. The three other first-place winners will each receive a $60 Amazon gift card. New this year, runners-up in each age division will be awarded a $40 Amazon gift card.

Georgia Southern’s Biodynamics and Human Performance Center aims to find out through a recent study of 75 ultramarathon runners if there is a such thing as "too much exercise."

The fifteenth annual Taste of Downtown is scheduled for next Friday, September 15. Thirty tasty stops are planned inside stores, restaurants, and businesses downtown.

Click on the picture of the day to get local sports scores, weather and lowest gas prices in town. Check back for updates throughout the day.

Georgia Southern football team captured a 49-35 victory over UAB Saturday at Allen E. Paulson Stadium in non-conference action on Saturday.

Join us on this tidbit to learn about one of Statesboro’s most famous citizens. He was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 1990. I had the honor of representing Statesboro for this award presentation. He played rags, blues and gospel.

Statesboro Transfer & Storage, Inc., moved Coach Erk Russell to Statesboro, and they are now the official movers of Georgia Southern Athletics.

Haley Yerxa shot 73-71-71 (215) to finish 1-under to lead Georgia Southern women’s golf to a sixth-place finish at the Boilermaker Classic at Kampen Course.

Running from June 19 to September 18, 2023, the 15th annual America’s Farmers Market Celebration (AFMC) showcases the essential markets across the nation making a difference for farmers, ranchers, and communities. The Statesboro Farmers Market is in the running to win a cash prize.

The statewide bus tour will make a stop on Sweetheart Circle next Tuesday, September 12th, in honor of National Recovery Month. The tour has partnered with local hosts Freedom Through Recovery and GSU's Center for Addiction Recovery to bring live music, speakers, and free Dolan's BBQ to the event.