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Bulloch has received $11M from FEMA, stands to get $12-14M more, for expenses after 2024-25 stormsBulloch County has received about $11 million, mainly from FEMA, for public cleanup and recovery efforts after two hurricanes and a tropical storm that roared through in 2023 and 2024. But the county is still awaiting $12 million to $14 million more in pending or potential reimbursements, says Bulloch EMA Director Corey Kemp.December 17, 2025 -
December 10 was doubly tragic day on Bulloch County roadwaysWednesday, Dec. 10, was a twice tragic one on roadways in Bulloch County, with two unrelated accidents claiming lives.December 16, 2025 -
County enacts new zoning rules, including regs for future ATV trail and motorbike track parksAfter two previous postponements, the Bulloch County Planning and Development Office's raft of new regulations, including rules for future "go cart, ATV and motorbike tracks and trails," was unanimously approved last week by the county commissioners. In a change from a previous draft, the rules do not require a fence around a track or trail site.December 10, 2025 -
Council approves rezoning for Kroger MX tract with one added conditionStatesboro City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved rezoning a 28-acre tract at the corner of Cypress Lake Road and Veterans Memorial Parkway corner to MX "mixed use" for inclusion of a future Kroger supermarket shopping center, with conditions.December 3, 2025 -
TMT Farms to glow nightly from Thanksgiving evening to Dec. 27This year's TMT Farms Christmas lights drive-thru display is set to shine nightly for a month, beginning at 6 p.m. Thanksgiving Day, while TMT patriarch Roy Thompson recovers from a recent stroke and with the season dedicated in memory of Deborah Thompson.November 25, 2025 -
Davis' trial for 2024 Days Inn double homicide gets underwayThe trial of Kentaevious Raeshon Davis on murder and other charges alleging that he killed two other young men, Christopher Joyce and Jamaryce Mincey, in a Statesboro motel room on Feb. 29, 2024, got underway Monday in Bulloch County Superior Court.November 18, 2025 -
Statesboro observes Veterans DayRetired Maj. Gen. Randall V. Simmons Jr. touched on principles as time-honored as loyalty to the Constitution rather than a president or party and events as current — but not new — as deployment of troops to the border in his keynote remarks Tuesday for the annual Veterans Day program at the Emma Kelly Theater.November 12, 2025 -
Plans for a Kroger on Bypass moving forwardJust under three years since the Statesboro Publix opened in Eagles Corner Shopping Center, a proposal is moving forward for another major supermarket chain, Kroger, to have a big store and a fueling center built less than two miles to the west around the bypass.November 11, 2025 -
McCollar elected to third term as Statesboro’s mayorJonathan McCollar, with at least 69% of the votes to not quite 31% for challenger Raymond Harris in the election that ended Tuesday, secured a third term as mayor of Statesboro. Meanwhile, substantial majorities of Bulloch County voters said “yes” to two sales tax questions.November 5, 2025 -
Commissioners to look again at new zoning regs, among them ATV track and trail rulesA new definition and regulations of “Go Cart, ATV and Motorbike Track and Trails” will go back before the Bulloch County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday evening in a raft of proposed zoning rules also addressing future breweries, “conservation subdivisions,” home occupations and even whether a church lot can include a minister’s home.November 4, 2025