A Candler County Grand Jury has indicted Paul Thomas Reinberg, age 48, formerly of Metter, GA, for the 2010 murder of Harrison Wayne Olliff, then age 21, of Statesboro, GA. On December 10, 2010, the ...

The City of Metter has announced its intention to increase the 2025 property taxes it will levy this year by 2.514 mills over the rollback millage rate. When the total digest of taxable property is ...

The flowers are starting to wilt. The casseroles have been eaten or tucked away in the freezer. Friends and neighbors have gone back to their routines. The last notes of “Amazing Grace” have long ...

Thomas Edwin “Tom” Dixon was born on March 13, 1944, in Camp LeJeune, NC, to Harold Thomas Dixon and Dixie Ruth Adkins. He grew up in Florida with his parents and two brothers, Les and Bobby. Tom was ...

David Emanuel Academy Varsity Eagles held off Edmund Burke Academy 7-3 on Tuesday, August 12. The Eagles got on the board in the bottom of the first inning after the ...

The Candler County Board of Commissioners has announced their intentions to increase the 2025 property taxes it will levy this year by 8.23% over the rollback millage rate. When the total digest of ...

The Metter Tigers will officially kick off their 2025 football season this Friday night on the road against the Tattnall County Battle Creek Warriors. The Tigers start the season ranked number seven ...

The August 2025 term of Candler County Grand Jury met on Aug. 11 to consider 14 bills of indictment. The Grand Jury returned 13 true bills and one ‘no’ bill. True bills were returned as follows: Paul ...

Metter Interim Police Chief McKinley Lewis is now officially the new Chief of Police for Metter Police Department. During Metter City Council’s regular meeting on Monday, Aug. 11, the official ...

Martha Helen Rushing, 92, passed away peacefully Saturday evening, September 6, 2025, at her daughter’s home in Statesboro, GA, under the home care of Ogeechee Area Hospice. She was born in Metter, GA ...