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Community rallying around helicopter paramedic battling COVID-19
Community rallying around helicopter paramedic battling COVID-19 By Dal Cannady | March 5, 2021 at 6:24 PM EST - Updated March 5 at 6:24 PM
STATESBORO, Ga. (WTOC) - Many in Bulloch County and surrounding counties have rallied around a helicopter nurse-paramedic whoâs battling COVID-19.
Crews at Air Evac-Statesboro say Matt Rogers is the kind of guy who will do anything for anybody. So, theyâre doing all they can for him.
Rogers has treated patients on choppers for almost a decade. In January, he was hospitalized with COVID.
Since then, heâs been moved to hospitals in Savannah and now Jacksonville. Co-workers say heâs a loyal friend, husband, father, and more and has saved countless patients over the years. The crew personally flew him to Florida.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. McCollar describes ‘State of the City’ in election year, ongoing pandemic Highlights sidewalks, housing, transit and parks Mayor Jonathan McCollar speaks to Statesboro via a lectern and microphone placed in front of the council dais Tuesday evening. He wore a protective mask before he rose to speak and afterward during the meeting. - photo by AL HACKLE/Staff
Statesboro Mayor Jonathan McCollar in his 2021 State of the City speech touted efforts underway to improve parks as well as infrastructure such as sidewalks, a multipronged initiative to upgrade housing and the expected arrival of a city bus system this summer.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. McCollar to assess ‘State of City’ amid Tuesday council sessions Mayor Jonathan McCollar
Mayor Jonathan McCollar plans to give his 2021 State of the City speech Tuesday at 5:30 p.m., the usual time of the month’s second regular Statesboro City Council meeting.
That meeting – with steps toward major improvements to two parks and a preliminary vote on a property maintenance code on the agenda – will then follow the mayor’s speech. The after-5:30 p.m. regular session will conclude a series of three public meetings in the City Hall council chambers set to start with a work session on multiple topics at 3 p.m.