9/11/2001— We Promised We’d Never Forget
8:46 a.m. – Battalion Chief Joseph Pfeiffer witnesses the first plane, Flight 11, slamming into the North Tower. He immediately dispatches a second alarm and a third alarm while enroute. A typical second alarm to a high-rise building deploys 19 pieces of apparatus and 11 chiefs. That is in addition to the original alarm which…
Read MoreFour Receive Jail Time In Court
Judge Amanda Petty presided over the criminal trial calendar in Jasper Superior Court last month. The following sentences were handed down: Tavares Jackson was sentenced to 15 years with two years to serve in confinement for two counts of sale of cocaine and possession of a firearm by convicted felon. Seventeen other counts were nolle…
Read MoreMiriam Nell Jones Orr Chamberlain
Miriam Nell Jones Orr Chamberlain was born November 8, 1921, at her family home in Newborn. At 96 years of age, she passed away peacefully in her parent’s home in Newborn on September 3, 2018. Miriam graduated from Newborn High School in 1938 and then attended Georgia State College for Women, graduating in 1942. She…
Read MoreMrs. Katherine Dearro “Kat” Jefferson
A celebration of life for Mrs. Katherine Dearro “Kat” Jefferson is on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018 at 11 a.m. at Shiloh Baptist Church, 326 Martin Lane in Shady Dale. Public visitation on Friday Sept. 7 from 9 a.m. until 8 p.m. Rev. Kerwin Scott, Pastor/Eulogist. Burial at Midway Independent Church Cemetery. Smith and Sons Funeral…
Read MoreJimmy Lee Benton
A celebration of life for Jimmy Lee Benton is on Friday, Sept. 7, 2018 at 11 a.m. at New Bethel Grove Baptist Church, 501 Bethel Grove Church Road in Monticello.Rev. Lucius Solomon, pastor; Rev. Earl Favors will deliver the eulogy. Public viewing on Thursday, Sept. 6 from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. (Wake: 6-7 p.m.)…
Read MoreJohn Thomas Rogers
Funeral services for John Thomas Rogers were conducted Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018 in Milledgeville. Interment followed in Baldwin Memorial Gardens. He died August 18, 2018 at his home. Mr. Rogers, 79, was a native of Monticello and had made his home in Baldwin County for most of his life. He was retired from the U.S.…
Read MoreRev. Thomas Wilson Morton
Rev. Thomas Wilson Morton, 76, of Warner Robins, passed away on September 3, 2018. The family will have a time of visitation on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018 at 3 p.m. with a memorial service immediately following at 4 p.m. at FairHaven Funeral Home, 4989 Mount Pleasant Church Rd, Macon. A complete obituary may be found…
Read MoreYou Need a WE
In August of 1987, I loaded my 1979 Toyota Corolla that was mostly white except for the Bondo that filled a large crater on the driver’s side door that showed the scar of a previous wreck before the car was in our family. I set out that afternoon for my new life and new adventures…
Read MoreSeptember 11, 2001
Tuesday morning, just drinking some coffee on the back porch looking up at the pale blue sky, no clouds, quiet, unusually quiet, no airplanes rumbling above me in a holding pattern like normal, no sirens, no traffic noise and then in one second, everything changed. I turned and saw “BREAKING NEWS” on the screen of…
Read MoreSomething Special In The Air With Fall Just Around The Corner
While fall does not officially begin until the 22nd of the month, most people associate the season with the changing of August to September on the calendar. Already autumn decorations can be seen at various businesses and homes and it will only increase during the next couple of weeks. Stores have been displaying Halloween decorations…
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