It’s been more than a week since the Statesboro City Council voted unanimously to accept a settlement agreement that closed Rudy Rudy’s for good and required owner Johnathan Starkey to never again apply for a liquor license in the city.In the wake of the tragic circumstances that cost Georgia Southern student Michael Gatto his life and put Rude Rudy’s employee James Spencer behind bars facing a murder charge, there’s little argument that council members did the right thing. Indeed, the only thing. The agreement, hammered out by City Attorney Alvin Leaphart, Mayor Jan Moore and Public Safety Director Wendell Turner, however, doesn’t resolve the very difficult issue of underage drinking in Statesboro.
Our View: Finding a solution to underage drinking
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