Statesboro Herald

The Statesboro Herald is a newspaper that comes out six times a week and is based in Statesboro, Georgia, USA. It is owned by Morris Multimedia and has a circulation of approximately 7,200 copies. The paper mainly caters to the residents of Bulloch, Screven, Evans, and Candler counties. Notably, the Georgia Press Association recognized the Herald as the best small daily newspaper in 2004, 2006, 2010, 2011, and 2012.

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'Rocky' gets his 3rd ID patch

2 days ago | statesboroherald.com | Pat Donahue

One of the newest dog-faced soldiers will always look that way. He's almost 2 years old and his name is Rocky — and he has a 3rd Infantry Division to patch to sport. He's also an actual bulldog.
Appellate court takes up mass voter eligibility challenges

2 days ago | statesboroherald.com | Dave Williams

ATLANTA – Oral arguments in a federal courtroom Tuesday over whether a Texas-based conservative group’s mass voter challenges in Georgia almost five years ago amounted to an attempt to intimidate minority voters boiled down to intent.
City spends $285,000 on automated level-control system for Lake Sal

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.
GBI continues investigation into Bulloch County Public Works, two months in

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.
Kemp says he won’t run for US Senate in ‘26

1 week ago | statesboroherald.com | Pat Donahue

The Republican field for Georgia’s U.S. Senate seat up for election in 2026 may be wide open after the man considered the leading candidate chose not to run. Gov. Brian Kemp, whose term in office ends in 2026, posted on his X account that he is declining to run for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Democrat Jon Ossoff.
Commissioners look to issue $60M in bonds to finance jail project

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.
‘Violent attack’ on school bus resulted in battery charges on seven juveniles ages 5 to 14

2 weeks 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.
Georgia Southern rents roughly 1/3 of Charme apartments, securing beds for returning students

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.
Mining company shareholders: Stay out of Okefenokee

2 weeks ago | statesboroherald.com | Dave Williams

ATLANTA — Shareholders of The Chemours Company are urging the chemical producer to assess the impacts on ecologically sensitive areas before plunging into a mining project, a move aimed largely at plans to mine titanium near the Okefenokee Swamp.
Historical Society gets glimpse of future for Botanic Garden at Georgia Southern

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.