Festival to aid car crash victim

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Festival to aid car crash victim

Fundraiser set for Portal teen's medical expenses

Updated: Jul 9, 2017, 12:10 AM

Published: Jul 9, 2017, 12:14 AM

A fundraiser festival in Portal is expected to help with medical costs for a teen critically injured in a crash June 10. Macallin Thomas, son of Steve and Shannon Thomas of Portal, is a 17 year old upcoming senior in the Portal High School Class of 2018. He was involved in a fatal crash near Swainsboro that took the lives of two others, and remains in critical condition at an Augusta hospital where doctors are performing a series of reconstructive surgeries, said Brandi Lane Donaldson, organizer of “A Day for Macallin” to be held Saturday, July 15, at the E.C. Carter Turpentine Still in Portal.

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BOE tentatively adopts 3-mill property tax hike

Year-in-advance plan of deep cuts to schools got community’s attention

Teachers attending Wednesday's special meeting of the Bulloch County Board of Education stand at the request of Transitions Learning Center Administrator Tim Rountree, at lectern, as he speaks for keeping the TLC open and not cutting teaching jobs. - photo by AL HACKLE/Staff

AL HACKLE/Staff

Statesboro Herald

Published: Jul 31, 2025, 1:38 AM

After a public input session in which more than 20 of the 25 citizens who signed up to speak spoke in favor of a tax increase if it would avoid eliminating classroom teaching jobs and closing the Transitions Learning Center, the Bulloch County Board of Education voted 5-3 Wednesday evening to publish a tentative 2025 property tax rate of 10.4 mills. This was discussed as a “3-mill” increase.

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