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The goober rules at annual Brooklet Peanut Festival
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Kelly and Tony Murray of the Cook Shack in Blackshear keeps the boiled peanuts flowing for a hungry crowd during the annual Peanut Festival in Brooklet on Saturday, Sept. 16. The Cook Shack has been supplying boiled peanuts for the festival for 20 years. - photo by SCOTT BRYANT/staff

Downtown Brooklet was once again a hub for fun, family and all things peanut as the 34th annual Brooklet Peanut Festival took over the town on Saturday, Sept. 16. 

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Triplets Evan, Ellis, and Ethan Edwards wait like little birds in a nest for some bites of food from mom Chelsea and dad Ben during the annual Peanut Festival in Brooklet on Saturday, Sept. 16. - photo by SCOTT BRYANT/staff

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Sara Nease of Clyo enjoys a spread of food with daughter Paige, 11, son Cade, 9, and pup Pax during the annual Peanut Festival. - photo by SCOTT BRYANT/staff

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Justin Soderberg gives daughter Emma, 7 months, a little attention while waiting for a shuttle ride during the annual Peanut Festival in Brooklet on Saturday, Sept. 16. - photo by SCOTT BRYANT/staff

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Originally from Bulloch County, Gene Wright gives daughter Janessa, 2, a shaded ride during the annual Peanut Festival while visiting from Raleigh, North Carolina. - photo by SCOTT BRYANT/staff

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Dax Padget, 7, of Dublin, left, and brother Lawson, 10, enjoy snow cones while mom Kaysy totes the spoils of their gaming during the annual Peanut Festival. - photo by SCOTT BRYANT/staff

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Vita Schley of Coastal Roasters out of Richmond Hill unhusks steaming hot ears of roasted corn during the annual Peanut Festival. - photo by SCOTT BRYANT/staff

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Jimmy Baker, center, officiates an unofficial slow tractor race between Maddox Ashford, 9, and Lloyd Strickland during the annual Peanut Festival. - photo by SCOTT BRYANT/staff

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Bruce Spradlin of Lake City, Florida brings wife Sharon a cold treat while manning their Doggie Dudzz booth during the annual Peanut Festival. - photo by SCOTT BRYANT/staff

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Bulloch County teens elected as state and region leaders
Two local high school students to represent Georgia FCCLA in leadership roles
Eden Chavers
Eden Chavers

Two Bulloch County students were elected recently to serve as state and region officers for the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America’s (FCCLA) Georgia chapter. 

Kamryn Williams and Eden Chavers are members of their respective high schools' FCCLA chapters, a national career technical student organization that now boasts 250,000 members nationwide and more than 24,000 members in Georgia. 

Kamryn Williams
Kamryn Williams

Williams is a tenth-grader at Southeast Bulloch High. She has been elected to serve as a state officer, vice president of Membership, for Georgia FCCLA.

Chavers, a twelfth-grader at Statesboro High, will serve as a Region 9 officer for Georgia FCCLA.

Both are students in Bulloch County Schools’ Early Childhood Education career pathway. FCCLA is a student technical organization that is connected to the pathway and provides leadership, networking, skills building opportunities and competitions.

FCCLA is one of six student technical organizations within the school district’s Career Technical & Agricultural Education program. Their faculty advisors are Charity Masters at SEB and Rosanna Ward, Jackie Merrill and Callie Lauder of Statesboro High.

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