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Rain or shine, First Friday offers plenty of fun
Event to adjust to weather
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Drummer Mike Bowen and the Starlights band are scheduled to perform Friday evening as part of the First Friday celebration in downtown Statesboro. - photo by Special
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Special to the Herald
Updated: Mar 31, 2016, 12:48 AM
Published: Mar 31, 2016, 12:51 AM
Despite the strong threat of rain Friday afternoon, downtown Statesboro’s monthly First Friday celebration has plenty of indoor activities scheduled just in case. And if the rains hold off, First Friday has that covered, too. First Baptist Church of Statesboro’s own big band orchestra “Starlight” will present a concert on the steps of the Bulloch County Courthouse beginning at 5:30 p.m. The Starlights are composed of 30 talented musicians from Statesboro and surrounding counties.
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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
Special to the Herald
Published: Jul 26, 2025, 1:53 PM

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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