Candler County Schools will reopen Friday, January 24. Most roads seem to be in good shape and our buses will be running their normal schedule. We look forward to providing a safe learning environment ...

This week, for the first time in a few years, we may be faced with an opportunity to sing “Jingle Bells” deep in the South as we brave a snow-white landscape and ice-covered roads, walkways and steps ...

From time to time, Metter Advertiser receives questions from the community that we attempt to answer as quickly as possible. However, we have come to realize that questions one person may have are ...

The weather did not stop the celebration! The community gathered Monday afternoon along the parade route from Metter Police Department through downtown Metter for the annual Martin Luther King Jr.

Kats Diner, Metter’s newest eatery, is opening Saturday, Jan. 25, at 751 South Lewis Street, across from Walgreen’s Pharmacy. Owners Joe and Alissa Sudowski are not new to Metter’s culinary scene ...

Metter’s L.C. Anderson Memorial Library, Candler County’s public library, has a new manager as of Monday, January 13, 2025. She is Elissa Gasper of Vidalia, Georgia. Gasper comes to the library after ...

Metter-Candler Chamber of Commerce has selected Gaitten Creative to lead the planning and execution of this year’s Another Bloomin’ Festival alongside Festival Chair Marty Ray. “This community event ...

Albert Wilson, Sr., of Metter, passed away early Monday, January 13, 2025, at The Gardens Senior Living in Statesboro. Wilson was born in Savannah and moved to Metter at a young age, where he was ...

Candler County Schools Update** Candler County Schools will hold classes on Tuesday, with an early dismissal at 2:00 PM to ensure all bus-riding students are home by approximately 4:00 PM before the ...

Bobbie Faye Bryant Coursey Simerson passed peacefully at her home on January 18, 2025. She was born on January 17, 1937, to Raymond and Blonnie Bryant of Emanuel County, Georgia. She was of the ...

Dr. William Lee Ross, Ph.D., of Metter, passed away on January 17, 2025, at Southern Manor at Candler. Dr. Ross was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Irving Ross and Rose Jarrin Ross. He dedicated many ...

Lennie McGowan Rutz, my mother, had several great loves in her life: Good food (mostly her own), her mother, her husband, and good television (none of that silly stuff, and definitely no weird sci-fi ...