Simonton Bridge News Today

An Eatonton man fled the scene of a wreck in Bishop because he didn't have a license. He was found near the truck he abandoned when his girlfriend called his name.

The city of Watkinsville has signed a $4.5 million contract to purchase property to become a greenspace park.

For four years, a local historian tour guide who goes by the name of “Oconee Joe” has led ecology and history tours of Oconee waterways. People have the option of paddling canoes or kayaks for half a day, a whole day or even a weekend. One of the half-day tour options is an eight-mile journey that lets paddlers see the last six miles of the Middle Oconee River and the first two miles of the converged Main Oconee rivers.  While paddlers, fish and fowl now use the Middle Oconee to tr...