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John Alexander McDougald, former Mayor of Statesboro, built the big white house that sits at 121 South Main Street in 1911, and it hasn't left his lineage since. Now the Beaver House Restaurant, his granddaughter-in-law and great grandson, Sue and Clay Beaver, serve a boarding house style meal there seven days a week.

The lane closures are necessary for widening activities for I-16 and bridge work at the I-16/I-516 Interchange

The Georgia Ports Authority and CSX have teamed to provide seven-day-a-week rail departures between GPA’s Mason Mega Rail Terminal in Savannah and the Eastern North Carolina location, offering customers three-day ship-to-shore transit time.

The record-setting aircraft exceeds expectations in speed, range, and cabin comfort.

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.

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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.