Jim Healy

Reporter at Statesboro Herald

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Articles

Big Lots is back

3 weeks ago | statesboroherald.com | Jim Healy

A little more than five months after posting “Going Out of Business” signs and about three months after turning the lights out seemingly for good, Big Lots in the Statesboro Square Shopping Center reopened Thursday morning. Shoppers Thursday found a similar-looking store to the one that was cleaned out in March, but with a new shine and more open space. Big Lots has been located in Statesboro Square for more than two decades.
Community vigil for Emily Grace and Landyn

3 weeks ago | statesboroherald.com | Jim Healy

About one hundred people gathered on a damp Thursday evening at the Bulloch County Courthouse to share in the grief of the tragic loss of two children last week and to try to begin healing.
Big Lots store is set to reopen Thursday in Statesboro Square

3 weeks ago | statesboroherald.com | Jim Healy

Last December, less than a week before Christmas, “Going Out of Business” signs were posted at the entrance to the Big Lots store in the Statesboro Square Shopping Center. Liquidation sales were held and the store was cleared out of merchandise by the end of February. But in mid-April, a large sign was posted on the front-entrance windows – "The Comeback Starts Soon!" – and Big Lots is now poised to re-open for business to the public on Thursday.
Statesboro-SEB, BA-Portal to open 2025 season - again

1 month ago | statesboroherald.com | Jim Healy

In a repeat of the start of the 2024 season, Statesboro High will face Southeast Bulloch on Aug. 15 and Portal will take on Bulloch Academy in the Erk Russell Classic on Aug. 16 to kick off the 2025 high school football season. The Georgia High School Association released the 2025 schedule this week with Bulloch County’s four local teams in action against each other the first week.
Opinion: This is why the Greenwich budget system is broken

1 month ago | greenwichtime.com | Jim Healy

The Board of Education submitted a proposed bipartisan school budget request for a 5.1% increase. The BET cut the budget increase to 3.5%, voting purely on partisan lines. The reduction is $4.05 million. The BOE said the $4.05 reduction to its proposed budget can’t be achieved. There was a long standoff. On April 2 , Republican First Selectman Fred Camillo formally asked the BET to reconsider the $4.05 cut.
Opinion: This is why the Greenwich budget system is broken

1 month ago | sheltonherald.com | Jim Healy

The Board of Education submitted a proposed bipartisan school budget request for a 5.1% increase. The BET cut the budget increase to 3.5%, voting purely on partisan lines. The reduction is $4.05 million. The BOE said the $4.05 reduction to its proposed budget can’t be achieved. There was a long standoff. On April 2 , Republican First Selectman Fred Camillo formally asked the BET to reconsider the $4.05 cut.
‘Violent attack’ on school bus resulted in battery charges on seven juveniles ages 5 to 14

1 month ago | statesboroherald.com | Jim Healy

Bulloch County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Todd Hutchens said a “violent attack on a 7-year-old” while riding in a Bulloch County school bus April 18 led to an investigation that resulted in charging seven juveniles with battery and a bus driver with cruelty to children. “It was a violent attack from the 5-year-old all the way up to the 14-year-old,” Hutchens said at a Tuesday press conference inside the Sheriff’s Office.
The Saucy Shrimp reopens in new location

2 months ago | statesboroherald.com | Jim Healy

Almost exactly one year after The Saucy Shrimp restaurant on Highway 301 South was gutted by a fire, the eatery reopened on the site of the Soyumi restaurant that closed March 16 in the Statesboro Crossing shopping center.
Statesboro Big Lots to reopen June 5

2 months ago | statesboroherald.com | Jim Healy

The large yellow “CLOSING” sign that hung at the entrance to the Big Lots store in the Statesboro Square Shopping Center came down more than a month ago after all stock was cleared out and the store went dark. But, last week, several new, smaller signs went up announcing the store would reopen on June 5.
Late Kelly Berry inducted as eighth 'Legend of the Arts'

Mar 18, 2025 | statesboroherald.com | Jim Healy

With his wife Holly and daughter Skylar along with some of his closest colleagues and friends gathered inside the Emma Kelly Theater, the late Kelly Berry became the eighth member of the Averitt Center for the Arts Legend of the Arts Gallery. And for Trish Tootle, who came to know Berry while working with him on the Averitt Center Board, Berry was right there with everybody during Tuesday’s induction ceremony. “When I walk into this building, I see Kelly and I sense his presence,” she said.