M. Tumlin Gets 12 & Tiebreaker To Win
Jasper County Middle School teacher Mary Tumlin is this week’s winner of The Monticello News football contest by virtue of her guess that 42 points would be scored in Notre Dame’s 31-13 win over Georgia Tech, making the actual tie-breaker score be 44. Hannah Greenway also correctly guessed the winner of 12 games listed but…
Read MoreCases Are Heard in Superior Court Here
Ocmulgee District Judge Alison Burleson presided over a light docket of Jasper Superior Court cases on October 27. •William Jonier Dooley was sentenced to five years of probation for theft by taking and ordered to pay $2,500 in restitution to a victim. •Michael Hinton, probation revoked to 180 days, which was suspended upon entry into…
Read MoreSoftball Players Sign with ESCC
Monticello Lady Hurricane softball players Allie Jones (left) and Bailey Jenkins officially signed Monday to play softball at Enterprise State Community College in Enterprise, AL. Both young ladies have played for the Lady Canes for the past four seasons and saw four state playoff appearances, state runner-up as freshmen, third in the state as sophomores,…
Read MoreScarecrow Winners Are Named
The Chamber of Commerce would like to thank the community for participating in the 2020 Scarecrow Contest! There were 12 Scarecrows entered and over 3,206 votes brought in. The winners are as follows. First place— Piedmont Academy who is the winner of 2021 Cornerstone Membership ($500 value). Second place goes to Heartland Clinic of Chiropractic,…
Read MoreBurglaries Reported; Persons Arrested
Two significant burglaries were reported in Jasper County this week. One was on Ezell Road, where the perpetrator took cash and electronics. The other incident was on Whippoorwill, and a lawn mower, extension ladder, and air conditioning was stolen. Persons arrested in the last week, and their charges, include: •Elio Bautista, 34, Monticello—driving while unlicensed…
Read MoreWhat Is A Hero? Sometimes He Is Also A Dentist
(Editor’s Note: Local dentist Jamie Mitchell, DMD, wrote the following article about Tom Brady, DDS, for the Ga. Dental Association magazine, and it is reprinted here with permission.) By JAMIE MITCHELL What characteristics or qualities make a person a hero? Is there a hero gene that makes it instinctive, or perhaps it’s a learned response.…
Read MoreThe Shoppes of Monticello Plan for Upcoming Grand Opening, Ribbon Cutting
Painted furniture, painted glassware, embroidery, luggage and purses, rocks and minerals, candles, Avon, antique furniture, children’s and adult clothing, M-5 Angus, floral works, jewelry, woodworking and more will be offered at the Shoppes of Monticello which is scheduled to open this week, according to discussion at the Downtown Development Authority (DDA) meeting on October 28.…
Read MoreN.E.W. S.T.A.R.T. Trust
Trust. A simple one syllable word with complexities that can wondrously simplify a situation when it is present, or monumentally complicate the situation where it is absent. As it regards these eight principles in the NEW START acronym, “Trust” (in God) is the one upon which the other seven find their base. “In the beginning…
Read MoreAdvertising Overload
I don’t know if the nation will have announced a 2020 President or Congress by the time this is published but what I do know is that I will be glad when it strikes midnight on Wednesday. Why? Because I can’t take another prime time commercial break with the back-to-back-to-back candidate political advertisements. It has…
Read MoreSharing Christ 101
I have been serving on a church staff for over 31 years, 24 of those years as a pastor. One thing that I have observed through watching Christians in their walk with the Lord is that many Christians feel inadequate to share Jesus with their friends and family. They feel like they don’t know enough.…
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