BOE acts to buy subdivision tract as site for new SEB High School

Hears from influential group wanting school kept near current site, agrees to pay $2.35 million for 89 acres

Coach Fred Shaver, who built Southeast Bulloch High School's football program beginning 56 years ago and for whom its field is named, speaks to the Bulloch County Board of Education. He was one of seven speakers Thursday evening for building the new school on or near the traditional location. (AL HACKLE/staff)

Fred Shaver speaks — Coach Fred Shaver, who built Southeast Bulloch High School's football program beginning 56 years ago and for whom its field is named, speaks to the Bulloch County Board of Education. He was one of seven speakers Thursday evening for building the new school on or near the traditional location. (AL HACKLE/staff)

The Bulloch County Board of Education, by a unanimous 8-0 vote Thursday, contracted to buy about 89 acres, previously proposed as the site of a 109-lot residential subdivision on Brooklet-Denmark Road, as the location for a new Southeast Bulloch High School.

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