Chris Bridges Wins Writing Award
Monticello native Chris Bridges was recently recognized by the Georgia Press Association during the group’s annual Better Newspaper Contest awards banquet. Mr. Bridges won second place for Best Sports Column for his work submitted to the Barrow News-Journal in Winder. The columns were written during the 2018 calendar year. The three columns which comprised the…
Read MoreDiamond Hurricanes Begin Summer Baseball
The month of June will be a time for learning and hopefully improvement in all phases of the game when it comes to the Monticello High School baseball team. New head coach Brady McMichael has several games lined up for the Canes. The team fell last week 8-6 to Putnam County and will travel to…
Read MoreCougar Football Working for Success this Fall
Will Johnson is all about enthusiasm. The first-year Piedmont Academy football coach has been working non-stop to rebuild the Cougar tradition. That task is nothing new for the young coach as he has been undertaking a similar process with the school’s varsity boys basketball team the past couple of years. “Building in basketball is tougher…
Read MoreHurricanes Look To Move Up this Year
The Monticello High School football team qualified for the state playoffs last fall after finishing fourth in the region. Second-year head coach Rydell Jackson has said throughout the offseason one of his top goals is to have the team “move up” in 2019. Jackson said the region will remain extremely competitive and knows it will…
Read MoreMonticello Council Approves Budget, Welcomes Clerk
The Monticello City Council Tuesday welcomed a new clerk to the city. Karen Pennamon began work Monday and was at Tuesday’s council meeting along with interim City Manager Peggy Billerman. The council voted to approve several items, including the tax levy of 5.66 mills, and the $7.746 million budget, but the vote to approve the…
Read MoreCourt Sentences Are Listed
Erin Shumate was sentenced to 15 years with the first four to be served in confinement during Tuesday’s motion day calendar review in Jasper Superior Court under the jurisdiction of Judge William Prior, Jr. She was sentenced for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute while charges of violation of Georgia Controlled Substances Act and…
Read MoreA Transformed Mind
Romans 12:2 “Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect” (NLT) Religiously doing something with no purpose is the bedrock of insanity.…
Read MoreHappy Father’s Day
We all have one, a father that is. Some may have never known theirs, some may have lost theirs very young or you may have been there to hold their hand until their last breath. Fathers are special, after all they are responsible for half of each of us. My father worked as a tire…
Read MoreRain, Rain, Rain
Where I am sitting right now, the sun is shining. And as much as we needed the rain, did we really need that much at one time? But, I am complaining, and I need not. We prayed for rain and the good Lord answered. Now the sun is out, so all those plants will reach…
Read MorePresidential Contest From More Than Three Decades Ago
With Joe Biden among the way-too-many-to-mention candidates for president in the 2020 Democratic primary, various politic pundits across the country have been examining past contests. It’s hard to fathom that more than three decades have elapsed since the 1988 political campaign. We were in the final days of the 1980s, certainly associated with Ronald Reagan…
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