State cuts $2.2M more from BOE

A recent decision by the state of Georgia to cut an additional $2.2 million in funding to the Bulloch County School System for the coming fiscal year has forced school officials to redo the system budget to handle the unexpected shortfall.

April 14, 2010 | By JAMES HEALY | Local

Get your festival tickets

Who will win the Grand Prize at the 2010 Statesboro Film Festival? Best picture? Film editing?

April 13, 2010 | By JAMES HEALY | Local

Vote for your favorite film

Which film will take the Grand Prize at the 2010 Statesboro Film Festival? Well, it's now in the hands of the voters - you.

April 07, 2010 | By JAMES HEALY | Local

Battalion is coming home

A little more than a year after a ceremony at the Statesboro Armory officially began the deployment to Afghanistan for the 48th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, the first soldiers will arrive back at the Armory Tuesday.

March 22, 2010 | By JAMES HEALY | Local

Norman Rockwell exhibit opens Friday at the Averitt Center

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huck Finn are all around Statesboro these days. The characters created by the mischievous mind of Mark Twain are the focus of a multitude of events that began in January and take center stage this week.

March 06, 2010 | By JAMES HEALY | Local

GSU may face massive cuts

A worst-case scenario could reduce state funding to Georgia Southern University by 30 percent, which GSU president Dr. Brooks Keel said "will have a major impact on Georgia Southern and would require significant operational changes at our university."

March 01, 2010 | By JAMES HEALY | Local

Arbor Day 2010 offers lessons and fun in the Boro

Sponsored by Keep Bulloch Beautiful and the Georgia Southern Botanical Garden, the 2010 Arbor Day observance drew several hundred people to the Willie McTell Trail where they enjoyed painting like Emory above, making handprints, free food and music. Also, information about the importance of trees and recycling was made available and the Georgia Forestry Commission gave away 250 free seedlings.

February 27, 2010 | By JAMES HEALY | Local

Open house heralds coming of Hearts and Hands Clinic

For Pastor John Long, it didn't take much to convince the members of his Son's Light Fellowship Baptist Church to help the Hearts and Minds Health Clinic.

February 20, 2010 | By JAMES HEALY | Local

Bulloch recognized as Certified Georgia Work Ready

During a ceremony Wednesday at Ogeechee Technical College, Bulloch County was officially recognized as Certified Georgia Work Ready and the area manager for Georgia Power believes the designation will help local workers, employers and the economy as a whole.

February 17, 2010 | By JAMES HEALY | Local

A lesson with a ballet master

The Statesboro School of Dance was filled Thursday with students practicing various ballet techniques and positions in afternoon classes. A typical afternoon inside the studio on South Zetterower Avenue - except for who was leading the instruction.

February 06, 2010 | By JAMES HEALY | Life

A historic grant to a local group

An enormous gift made possible by one of Statesboro's most generous and caring families will go a long way to preserving and highlighting history in Bulloch County well into the future.

February 06, 2010 | By JAMES HEALY | Local

Free Averitt play full of GSU ties

The works of Langston Hughes will come to life tonight and Friday on the Emma Kelly Theater stage, along with the famed poet and author himself in the form of a Georgia Southern graduate.

February 04, 2010 | By JAMES HEALY | Local

Sneak a peek at Herald's new Web site

Hey, don't tell anyone, but check out http://beta.statesboroherald.com/.

January 30, 2010 | By JAMES HEALY | Local

Supreme Court ruling allowing corporations unlimited political spending is dangerous

Editor: Please join with me in calling for our elected officials to minimize or overturn the lawless Supreme Court decision which grants full personhood rights to corporations. This un-Constitutional judgment, which overturns all well-settled precedents, will result in the death of our democracy. The US will become a state governed to serve corporations, not the interests of our citizens: fascist. Many corporations are multi-national, and all are self-interested. Why should their huge bankrolls ...

January 30, 2010 | Jim Healy | Letters To The Editor

Rattlesnake roundups are a tradition that need to change immediately

Editor: About 60 years ago, someone figured out that by pumping a little gasoline vapor into gopher tortoise burrows you could drive out the inhabitants and roundup a ton of rattlesnakes. Rattlesnake roundups enabled farmers and ranchers to rid their land of dangerous reptiles and make a little money. Prizes are awarded for the most snakes and the heaviest snakes. Only three roundups persist in the 21st century: Opp, Alabama, and Whigham and ...