Al Hackle

1 week ago | statesboroherald.com | Al Hackle

The city of Statesboro is purchasing an almost $285,000 solar-powered, automated rainfall monitoring and water release system for Lake Sal, a roughly 14-acre lake in the northwestern part of town, as part of larger planned flood control project for the neighborhood. Owned by the Lake Sal Homeowners Association, the lake is within the loop formed by Northlake Drive and Zetterower Road.

1 week ago | statesboroherald.com | Al Hackle

A probe the GBI launched two months ago into invoices and bidding procedures at the Bulloch County Public Works Department remains “active and ongoing,” a Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokesperson said Friday. The investigation began several months along in the county’s emergency expenditures of more than $10 million for debris cleanup after Hurricane Helene and hundreds of thousands more on road repairs since Tropical Storm Debby.

2 weeks ago | statesboroherald.com | Al Hackle

Bulloch County commissioners are poised to act during their 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 6 meeting on either of two resolutions to borrow $60 million through a bond sale to finance an expansion and update of the county jail. Their choice will be between repaying the bonds in 12 years or over the course of 20 years. No details of the options are provided in the proposed resolutions in the commissioners’ agenda folder materials, which were made publicly available Thursday.

2 weeks ago | statesboroherald.com | Al Hackle

In their mid-April meeting on the Georgia Southern University campus, the regents of the University System of Georgia unanimously authorized Georgia Southern's almost $3 million one-year sub-rental of 81 apartments containing 240 student beds in the privately owned new Charme on Georgia Avenue complex. Technically, it's the Georgia Southern University Housing Foundation Inc.

2 weeks ago | statesboroherald.com | Al Hackle

Besides hearing volumes about history from a local perspective, the Bulloch County Historical Society sometimes gets a glimpse of proposed or envisioned future developments. That happened Monday, near the end of a presentation by Todd Beasley, Ed.D., director of the Botanic Garden at Georgia Southern University.