For the fifth consecutive year, the Statesboro Herald was named the best small daily newspaper in Georgia during the Georgia Press Association’s annual awards banquet Friday in Jekyll Island.The Herald earned a first place in the General Excellence category of the 2014 Better Newspaper Contest in Division C for daily papers with 8,000 and under circulation. The annual contest is run by the Georgia Press Association, which represents 34 daily and 120 weekly newspapers in the state. The Herald also won first place in General Excellence in 2004, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.