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Old Sallie Z. School sold
Campus discussed as a possible home for YMCA
Old Sallie Z -Front View
The old "Sallie Z." school on East Jones Avenue, replaced more than five years ago by the new school of the same name on Cawana Road, now has new owners. - photo by AL HACKLE/Staff
The Bulloch County Board of Education recently sold the old Sallie Zetterower Elementary School on East Jones Avenue at Gentilly Road for $1 million to private investors. The campus is being discussed as a possible home for the new Statesboro YMCA, but the organization was not the buyer. Earlier this year, the board authorized Chairman Mike Herndon and Superintendent of Schools Charles Wilson to negotiate final terms for sale of the property.
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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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