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1 week ago | 
statesboroherald.com | Al Hackle
City Council on Tuesday approved spending $4.8 million to build and furnish the Statesboro Fire Department’s long proposed, now conceptually planned Station 3. Deputy Fire Chief Bobby Duggar described the plans during the 3 p.m. mayor-and-council work session.
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1 week ago | 
coastalcourier.com | Al Hackle
By Al Hackle, Statesboro Herald. If construction starts sometime in 2027 as predicted, the Georgia Department of Transportation’s widening of Interstate 16 to six lanes for the 32.5 miles between the “Statesboro” exit on Georgia Highway 67 and the I-95 interchange could be complete sometime in 2030, according to an “optimistic” GDOT projection.
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1 week ago | 
statesboroherald.com | Al Hackle
With more than 1,300 housing units planned around Burkhalter Road, Cawana Road and connecting roads in Statesboro’s recently annexed areas, and with the Highway 67-Burkhalter intersection already getting a Level of Service grade of “F,” city officials are planning for a series of road improvements. County officials are offering to collaborate on a plan.
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1 week ago | 
bryancountynews.com | Al Hackle
If construction starts sometime in 2027 as predicted, the Georgia Department of Transportation’s widening of Interstate 16 to six lanes for the 32.5 miles between the “Statesboro” exit on Georgia Highway 67 and the I-95 interchange could be complete sometime in 2030, according to an “optimistic” GDOT projection.
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1 week ago | 
statesboroherald.com | Al Hackle
So far, so calm: the National Hurricane Center's maps showed no tropical depression, tropical storm or hurricane symbols as of Monday, June 16, just over two weeks into hurricane season. In fact, the map of the North Atlantic carried the message, "Tropical cyclone activity is not expected during the next 7 days."
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2 weeks ago | 
statesboroherald.com | Al Hackle
In a recent interview, District Attorney Robert Busbee of the Ogeechee Judicial Circuit offered an explanation of his role in requesting a GBI investigation into the handling of public works contracts by the Bulloch County government.
Previously a defense attorney in private practice, Busbee was first elected in a May 2024 Republican primary victory over previous Ogeechee Circuit D.A. Daphne Totten and took office at the beginning of January.
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3 weeks ago | 
statesboroherald.com | Al Hackle
District Attorney Robert Busbee of the Ogeechee Judicial Circuit, who took office in January, has requested increased funding from the circuit’s four counties, including initially a 78% increase in funding from the government of the largest county, Bulloch. Bulloch County’s funding to its Animal Services agency, he notes, has been more than what it provides the D.A.’s Office, which prosecutes all of the county’s felony criminal cases.
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3 weeks ago | 
statesboroherald.com | Al Hackle
After a few dozen people stood up to oppose it, a developer’s request to rezone 61 acres of agricultural land on the Georgia Highway 119 Connector for creation of a subdivision with lots for 59 single-family homes went down to denial by a 4-3 vote of the Bulloch County commissioners June 3. This involved Chairman David Bennett’s first use of his tiebreaker vote since he was elected countywide to lead the Board of Commissioners last year and took office in early January 2025.
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3 weeks ago | 
statesboroherald.com | Al Hackle
Percentages? So far, the early voter turnout in Bulloch County toward the June 17 special primary for two Georgia Public Service Commission seats would be better measured in thousandths. As of noon Tuesday, six and a half days into the 16-day early voting period, 91 registered voters had cast in-person ballots here, reported county Election Supervisor Shontay Jones. What’s at stake?
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3 weeks ago | 
statesboroherald.com | Al Hackle
Lee Waters’ “hobby gone wild” of growing sugar cane and making syrup has led him to some deep history of that once major aspect of Bulloch County farm life and indirectly into the history of agricultural machinery manufacturing by iron foundries in regional cities such as Savannah and Columbus. Waters, whose full-time work is in his family’s business in town – L.A. Waters Furniture – also shares his family’s multigenerational interest in agriculture.
