Middle School Lady Cougars Earn More Wins
A four-run third inning helped lift the Piedmont Academy Middle School softball team to a 5-4 win against visiting Gatewood last week. The Lady Cougars also scored a run in the bottom of the third inning. Gatewood scored three runs in the top of the fifth and added one more in the top of the…
Read MoreLady Cougars Open Region With Big Win
The 2020 region opener was a success for the Piedmont Academy varsity fast-pitch softball team. The Lady Cougars blanked long-time rival Gatewood 15-0 in a home contest last week behind a 13-hit performance. After scoring four runs in the bottom of the first inning and two more in the second, Piedmont sealed the deal with…
Read MoreJV Lady Canes Play Well Despite Losing
The Jasper County-Monticello High School junior varsity softball team fell to Lamar County 12-2 last week. Coach Brady McMichael said the JV Lady Canes played a solid game and the final score does not indicate how well they played. “We had a really good defensive game,” McMichael said. “I give a lot of credit to…
Read More20th Anniversary
Sometimes you experience a day that you will never forget and that day was Sunday, Sept. 17, 2000 for me. On that date, the girls, as we like to call ourselves, finally got the privilege of eating at the Windows on the World restaurant, located on 107th story of 1 World Trade Center building in…
Read MoreCheck from God
Prior to coming to Mansfield Baptist Church to serve as pastor in 1996, I served as youth pastor at a church in Columbus from 1991-1996. After I left that church to move to Newton County, the church I had previously served realized that the financial secretary had been embezzling funds from the church. When that…
Read MoreThe Advance of Autumn
“I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord,” remember that delayed first line that comes after a musical interlude and drum series in that Phil Collins song “In The Air Tonight” that was featured in 80s famed drama series Miami Vice. The original show starred two dreamy subjects (at least back then),…
Read MoreThe High School Experience: Then & Now
It’s been a long time since I was a high school student. In fact, it has been been more than three decades now since I roamed the halls of my high school as a student. Three decades plus. In some ways it seems longer yet in others it seems like just yesterday I was that…
Read MoreFire & Smoke
When I first met my husband in 2000, he was studying at Oregon State University, and I was just about to start law school at the University of Georgia. When we decided to get married, one of us had to move, and I ended up studying as a visiting student at the University of Oregon…
Read MorePiedmont Varsity Cougars Earn Impressive Road Win
It has been so far, so good for the Piedmont Academy football team in 2020. The Cougars (2-0) went on the road for the first time this season last Friday and defeated Central Christian 40-22 in Sharpsburg. Piedmont set the tone early by jumping out to a 34-0 lead after the first quarter. The Cougars…
Read MoreJV Football Canes Fall in Close Game
There were plenty of positives in last week’s Jasper County-Monticello junior varsity football game. Despite falling to Oglethorpe County 12-7, the JV Canes battled until the end, coach Keldrick Davis said. “Oglethorpe County is a much-improved team,” Davis said. “We had a chance to score late in the second half but came up short. We…
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