A sign on Brannen Street behind Lowe's announcing the building of Fire Station #3 for the Statesboro Fire Department is shown Monday afternoon as workers with Lavender and Associates continue work on the foundation. (JIM HEALY/staff) Foundation and utility placement work is visibly underway for the Statesboro Fire Department’s new, roughly $5 million Station 3, off Brannen Street Extension behind Lowe’s. Fire Chief Tim Grams now gives a weather-cautious forecast for the station to be ready for use in July. Around the time of the groundbreaking ceremony at the end of October, officials said Station 3 could be ready in May or June 2026, in other words just seven to eight months from start to finish. Then the SFD’s 2025 annual report to Statesboro’s mayor and council, delivered by Deputy Fire Chief Bobby Duggar during a Feb. 17 work session, stated, “Expected completion of construction of Station 3 is July 2026.” The Statesboro Herald asked Grams about this in a brief interview last week. “Again, everything’s up to Mother Nature, but right now we are on track for some time in July, which lines up with the delivery of that second aerial truck,” Grams said. “So we’re still optimist
