Statesboro Herald

06/16/2026

*Paid for by Woods for Georgia Education*

🗳️VOTE TODAY for Richard Woods. ✔️More experience. ✔️Stronger results. Let’s do this, Bulloch! 💪🍑

06/16/2026

PHOTO GALLERY: Downtown Live Concert Series – The Tams

The Tams returned to Downtown Live for the fourth consecutive year on Thursday, June 11, bringing their timeless show to the East Main Street stage.

06/16/2026

Over 2,700 Bulloch voters, or 5.4%, turned out early or by absentee ballots for primary runoff

Bulloch County's 16 traditional Election Day precincts have polls open 7 a.m.–7 p.m. Tuesday, June 16, for their assigned voters who haven't voted early or absentee in the Democratic and Republican party primary runoffs.

06/16/2026

Veteran journalist named to regional executive editor role

Morris Multimedia has named Pat Donahue regional executive editor for its Southeast Georgia group, where he will oversee newsroom operations and editorial direction across the company's five community newspapers serving Bulloch, Bryan, Effingham, Liberty and Tattnall counties.

06/16/2026

A public notice that County Manager Chris Eldridge had placed in the Thursday, June 11 edition of the Statesboro Herald gave seven days' notice of Thursday's session as a "special called meeting" for the purpose of adopting the budget resolution.

The second regular Bulloch County Board of Commissioners meeting of the month would ordinarily be held on Tuesday morning. But this week's meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, June 18, to accommodate the commissioners' final vote on the fiscal year 2027 budget.

06/16/2026

The band and will present a public concert for the community and a clinic for Georgia Southern University students.

As the nation prepares to commemorate the 250th anniversary of American independence, the National Endowment for the Arts has awarded 33 grants ranging from $10,000 to $20,000 to support public-facing arts projects featuring performances and educational programming with U.S. military bands.

06/14/2026

Professional Eye Care of Statesboro presents Players of the Week
Caleb Scroggins - Senior, Football, Statesboro

Statesboro head football Coach Matt Dobson is counting on defensive back Caleb Scroggins to step up in the 2026 season.

06/14/2026

Professional Eye Care of Statesboro presents Players of the Week
Makiyah Strickland - Senior, Basketball Statesboro

Statesboro girl's basketball head coach Marty Holder is busy trying to get the team plenty of games over the summer and one player who has helped them to some pretty impressive wins is rising senior Makiyah Strickland.

06/14/2026

Southeast Bulloch High student to lead Georgia FCCLA
Student's faculty advisor also elected to state FCCLA Board

A Southeast Bulloch High School student and her faculty advisor have both been elected to serve in top leadership positions for Georgia's Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA).

06/14/2026

Kathy Bradley - Blessing of the fleet

A couple of weeks ago, I went to the beach. It had been a while. It had, in fact, been too long. Too long since I had gulped salt air and embraced the breeze off the ocean.