Local Life

SCVB Announces New Tourism Trail

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:   May 4, 2015 Contact:   Heidi Jeffers, Statesboro Convention Visitors and Bureau Highway 301 Becomes Georgia Grown Highway 301 Trail   South Georgia is one of the few areas remaining in the United States where there are miles of rural landscape, historic small towns, and abundant agricultural operations. The promotion of agri-tourism represents a readily available...

Did You Know…

Did you know that the Statesboro Convention & Visitors Bureau is the Destination Marketing Organization for Statesboro and Bulloch County?  We market our beautiful city and it’s attractions, restaurants, lodging and events to the entire United States! The SCVB also manages all aspects of tourism, conference outreach marketing, and servicing efforts.  Planning an event in Statesboro?...

Peggy Chapman Honored by City of Statesboro

Peggy Chapman was recently honored by the Statesboro Convention & Visitors Bureau and the City of Statesboro for her contributions to the SCVB Board of Directors and the new Statesboro Regional Visitor Information Center. She currently serves on the Executive Committee as the Secretary/Treasurer.  Peggy has over 40 years of economic development experience and has been a tremendous asset to...

Sports Destination Management Magazine features The Clubhouse of Statesboro

Written for sports event managers and organizers, Sports Destination Management Magazine provides planning and location strategies essential to hosting a successful event. It reaches planners and rights holders of events from amateur to professional and youth to adult. In the November/December issue, The Clubhouse of Statesboro is featured as one of the most outstanding venues in the United...

Remembering Our Fallen Opening Ceremony

The Statesboro Convention and Visitors Bureau is honored to announce the opening of the new exhibit, Remembering Our Fallen, as a part of the Museum on Main. The exhibit serves as a tribute to the military and to those who made the ultimate sacrifice in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The public is invited to view this exhibit from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. at the Convention & Visitors Bureau until...

Made in the Boro: Dia’s Clubhouse Greek Dressing

Statesboro’s multi-faceted resident, Darin Van Tassell is a professor, coach, businessman, and President of the Statesboro Convention and Visitors Bureau. Now, you can add foodie entrepreneur as Van Tassell embarks on his latest venture, making and bottling Dia’s Clubhouse Greek Dressing and Marinade. The product’s new, dynamic website, DiasClubhouseGreek.com, launched this week. The website...

New Statesboro Visitors Center Makes a Grand Entrance

By DeWAYNE GRICE dgrice@statesboroherald.com Hundreds of people joined community leaders Tuesday afternoon for the official ribbon cutting of the Statesboro Convention and Visitors Bureau’s Regional Visitors Center. The new Visitors Center is a few blocks north of the old location on South Main Street, in the building that used to house Shoney’s restaurant. The eatery, which had...

Statesboro Featured in Knoxville News Sentinel

Statesboro was recently featured in a summer getaway piece from the Knoxville News Sentinel out of Knoxville, Tennessee! Read below what they had to say about the Boro! Summer getaways close to home: Statesboro and Vidalia offer tasty culinary tourism destinations and more By T. Wayne Waters Special to the News Sentinel Saturday, July 12, 2014 Statesboro, Vidalia offer culinary tourism...

New Coca-Cola 125 Gets the Green Light!

Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 16, 2014 All New Coca-Cola 125 Raceway Gets the Green Light June 16, 2014- STATESBORO, GA – The Clubhouse has announced the Grand Opening date of its new, eco-friendly go cart track, the Coca-Cola 125 Raceway. After 13 weeks of construction by Lavender and Associates Inc., Statesboro’s most anticipated summer attraction is set to open Friday, June 27th....

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo ‘Boro Style!

  Satisfy your craving for Mexican food at some of Statesboro’s most popular restaurants.  These are favorites with visitors, locals, and GSU students alike!  http://goo.gl/zM1rkw El Sombrero – The original Statesboro location recently celebrated 25 years of business in the Boro and now there are two more locations to serve “the hat” demand. Daily specials and...