As Statesboro City Council issued warnings Tuesday to six restaurants for one instance each of an employee serving alcohol to someone under age 21, the question kept coming up why the council did not holding any similar hearings during several previous years. City Council held an abortive hearing Sept. 24 in which Rude Rudy's was shut down under an agreement with its owner. That followed the death of Georgia Southern University freshman Michael Gatto, 18, on Aug. 28 after a violent encounter there.
Statesboro holds alcohol hearings, wonders why it didnt before