Candler County News

Note: All information included in this report is taken from law enforcement incident reports and arrest records, which are public records and available for review at any and all local law enforcement agencies.

More dead fish in the Ogeechee River prompt a swimming and fishing advisory in both Bulloch and Effingham Counties.

Update: Candler County Sheriff's Dept. says three people have been arrested in connection with this case.

Dylan Sapp, 17, of Cobbtown, is in the Candler County Jail. Two juveniles a 12-year-old boy and a 16-year-old teenage girl are being taken to the Youth Detention Center in Claxton.

The stone marker for William Bowen stood more than a century through weather and time in Candler County's Lake Church Cemetery.

Ted Lewis got a shock he never anticipated when he went to Lake Cemetery in Metter and found more than a dozen graves vandalized.

Note: All information included in this report is taken from law enforcement incident reports and arrest records, which are public records and available for review at any and all local law enforcement agencies.

The school-naming committee for Austell Intermediate has concluded its evaluation of name submissions for the school and narrowed the selections to three.

Rain drops clung to leaves on corn plants in Wayne Rivenbark's field. But it could have been the leaves that were clinging to the droplets of moisture.

Candler County opened the building on Vertia Street for Metter High in 1930. It served teenagers until the 1960s when it became an elementary school.