Three Qualify for City Council Post
JCHS Film Students Compete
Where There’s Smoke
While you are making out your grocery list for the big Thanksgiving meal next week, remember to check the expiration on your fire extinguisher to make sure it is valid. Or make sure you have a fire extinguisher. There are quite a few types of fire extinguishers that are made especially for specific fires such…
Read MoreHow to Pray This Thanksgiving
Introduction: Jesus lovingly warned His disciples to pray when things look bad. This is in the context just before He returns in glory and power. Are you praying about the End Time Events? If not, why not? And if so, how should we pray? A closer look at the words of our Lord and Savior…
Read MoreThankful November
It’s November—the only month with a day set aside just to give thanks! Whew, we sure need to be thankful more often than that. I, for one, am thankful we do not have a fatal automobile accident on the front page of today’s paper. This county has lost too many lives in recent weeks to…
Read MoreMS Mat Cougars Start Season Strong
It was a successful start for the Piedmont Academy Middle School wrestling team last week. The Mat Cougars hosted a series of exhibition matches against several opponents including Henderson Middle School, Rock Spring and Jones County Middle School. Overall, the Middle School Mat Cougar wrestlers went 26-16. “All of our wrestlers made a strong showing…
Read MoreCougars Advance To Quarterfinals
Piedmont Academy’s football team lived to play another day last Friday. The Cougars earned a 38-0 win against Trinity Christian School-Dublin in a play-in game of the GIAA Class AA state playoffs. It was the second win of the season for Piedmont against the Crusaders as the two teams faced off way back in the…
Read MoreHurricanes Fall to Commerce 58-19
The Hurricane football program and its fans set their compass northeast with a goal of making landfall in Commerce and raining on the hopes of the Tigers in the first round of the GHSA playoffs last Friday. After a fast start and a quick strike from the Hurricanes, the Tigers gathered strength and defeated the…
Read MoreCouncil Banters about Issues
Monticello City Council members reviewed a number of business items Tuesday night while approving the council retirement compensation from $25 to $75 and increasing employee Christmas bonuses by 50 percent. The council retirement increase didn’t come without a bit of verbal banter between council member Cynthia Miller, who introduced the measure via Zoom, and the…
Read MorePair Is Arrested for Several Drugs
Deputies and members of the Jasper County Crime Suppression Unit executed a search warrant at 151 Georgia Pacific Road in Monticello on November 2, according to a press release from the sheriff’s office. . During the execution of the search warrant an amount of suspected methamphetamine was found alongside packaging material and digital scales. Upon…
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