Being homegrown is defined as belonging to one’s own locality or country. For Mayor Johnathan McCollar, Statesboro is the soil where he has both been rooted and sprouted, to serve the community.

“If you’re not invested in young people, or the future, it can’t work,” McCollar told a group of 8th-grade students at Langston Chapel Middle School last week.

“We’re grooming and developing the leaders of tomorrow. Education is the pursuit of truth – I want y’all to let that sink in,” he said. “You get a lot of information from social media. The problem with that is that a lot of information on social media is not the truth.”

Yet, for a mayor in McCollar’s position, he said he still understands the importance of communication, by being able to familiarize himself with the youth and how they com

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