No More Delays When It Comes To Voting
The craziness our world has been thrown into continues. Day after day, week after week and now month after month we continue to press on despite many things still being in chaos due to the ongoing COVID-19 health crisis. In reality it’s only been about a month since many businesses closed their doors, students began…
Read MoreEarth Day
Wednesday was Earth Day. With the pandemic, Earth Day seems…sadly trivial. What this global lockdown has resulted in though, beneficially, is cleaner skies. Less traffic. Less exhaust. Fewer emissions. Even skies above smoggy metropolises are clearer. People are connecting with the earth, tilling soil, weeding, planting flowers, growing vegetables. In large cities, people are stepping…
Read MoreUGA Senior Clay Evans Copes With Distance Learning Amidst Covid-19
UGA SENIOR CLAY EVANS Clay Evans, a Jasper County High School graduate and former Marching Hurricane, responded to the call for Covid-19 college experiences as an undergraduate senior at the University of Georgia in Athens. Like all students nationwide from primary to high school, post-secondary students have been subject to distance learning as institutions shuttered…
Read MoreChris Blakeley Looks to the Future
SENIOR CHRISTOPHER BLAKELEY (Editor’s Note: The Monticello News is interviewing high school seniors in an effort to highlight them as they are missing out on so many year-end milestones at school. The system vows there will be a graduation ceremony, but those arrangements have not yet been made. The News still plans to have a…
Read MoreNational Guard Cleans Facilities
Gov. Brian Kemp activated National Guardsmen to help with the COVID-19 pandemic, and one job the guard was tasked with was to clean every nursing home and assisted living location in the state. The national guard came to The Retreat and cleaned and sanitized throughout the facility, then moved on to the hospital and the…
Read MoreLandfill Re-Opens; Moratorium Enacted
The Jasper County Landfill is open again, as of Thursday morning April 23, after the County Commissioners agreed in their meeting Monday evening to open it. There will be a tipping fee, but the commissioners promise a free month later in the year. (April was supposed to be free for Jasperites to clean up around…
Read More3 Tips for Maintaining a Sterile Operating Room
Many surgical procedures require a completely sterile operating room. This is also known as asepsis, or the absence of any infection or infectious materials. Asepsis is a crucial part of protecting both the patient and the doctors helping them. There are several techniques surgeons and other medical personnel use to create a sterile field during…
Read MoreHow Summer Plans Will Change Because of COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic is just starting to ease in some areas, but infections are just starting to rise in other places around the globe. Non-essential travel is still prohibited in most states, borders are still closed, festivals and sporting events are still canceled, and even some national and state parks are closed or offering only…
Read MoreHow Golf Technology Has Changed
The beginning of golf as we know it today can be traced back to the 1400s in Scotland. Understandably, the technology used to play golf has changed considerably over this time to improve performance and the comfort of players. These are a few important examples of this progress. Golf Balls The original golf balls were…
Read MoreJimmie Smith
Mr. Jimmie Smith committal service and burial at the Georgia Veterans Memorial was held on April 13, 2020. Mr. Smith was born on January 26, 1946 to the late Mr. Eddie Smith, Sr. and Mrs. Ida Fears Smith. He served in the U.S. Army from February 2, 1965 to April 15, 1985 and was a…
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