SORBA begins 2021 with new leadership following the retirement of our former Executive Director, Tom Sauret. Terry Palmeri will be stepping up to the role of Executive Director and new hire, Philip Darden, will be filling the position of Associate Director. These two have great plans for SORBA moving forward and we are excited to see where their leadership will take us in the future.

The year was 1991, Metallica's Black Album was fresh on cassette, and we were battling the Euros in the inaugural season of the mountain biking World Cup. The final race in Berlin had topography thanks to grass-covered heaps bulldozed from the rubble of the second world war. Back stateside, Georgia Governor Zell Miller announced Preservation 2000, a plan to conserve 100,000 acres of land in the next decade. Fast forward thirty years and I’m still listening to Metallica (just streaming online), now racing the sun to get a ride in, and kids in Columbus are climbing up Doughboy to zip down The Bug at Standing Boy Trails.