Al Hackle is a News and Business Writer at Bryan County News, Coastal Courier, and Statesboro Herald. He focuses on regional interest and world news, with a particular emphasis on education, real estate, and cultural issues, including public education and school administration. Al's work has been featured in various publications, highlighting his expertise in these important themes.
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By: Al Hackle
For another drainage structure and road restoration in Bulloch County, the one on G.W. Oliver Road, engineers have planned, and FEMA agreed to help fund, construction of a bridge where there was only a set of seven big culvert pipes before.
By: Al Hackle
Bulloch County commissioners came into Tuesday evening’s special meeting with a budget projected to allow a partial rollback of their general government property tax rate from 11.35 mills to around 10 mills, but made two additions that could add back more than a third of a mill.
By: Al Hackle
Dr. Torian White is returning to the Bulloch County Schools to be the district’s superintendent, officially starting July 1, since the Board of Education voted 5-0 Thursday evening, June 11, to confirm him in the role.
The second regular Bulloch County Board of Commissioners meeting of the month would ordinarily be held on Tuesday morning. But this week's meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, June 18, to accommodate the commissioners'final vote on the fiscal year 2027 budget.
By: Al Hackle
Bulloch County's 16 traditional Election Day precincts have polls open 7 a.m.–7 p.m. Tuesday, June 16, for their assigned voters who haven't voted early or absentee in the Democratic and Republican party primary runoffs.
By: Al Hackle
Monday evening's townhall meeting for citizen input on qualities and knowledge sought in the next Statesboro chief of police in some ways resembled a "focus group" with about two dozen people in attendance, about a dozen of whom were not journalists or city staff or council.
Dr. Ted Redman, who said he decided to run after the property tax on his home doubled, defeated incumbent Commissioner Toby Conner for Seat 2-B on the Bulloch County Board of Commissioners in the party runoffs that concluded Tuesday. Redman received 2,884 votes to 2,268 for Conner among Republican-ballot voters in their district.
By: Al Hackle
After being transformed by individuals and organizations that have given more than $4 million and community leaders who never gave up, a 104-year-old former school building on Claxton’s Main Street gleamed and sang with new life Thursday evening, rededicated as the Jack and Muriel Strickland Arts & Cultural Center.
By: Al Hackle
After five failed motions Thursday night, June 18, underlined the Bulloch County Board of Commissioners' divisions over spending priorities, Chairman David Bennett cast his tiebreaker vote in a 4-3 decision reverting the fiscal 2027 budget back to the version presented at the beginning of a June 9 public hearing.
By: Al Hackle
Retiring from the force next week, July 1, but not actually leaving town, Statesboro Chief of Police Charles M. "Mike" Broadhead nevertheless received an appreciative sendoff from law enforcement colleagues, fellow city employees and other community members Tuesday afternoon in the Municipal Courtroom.
