Run-off Needed for Chief Magistrate
Jasper County voters will need to return to the polls on July 26 to determine who will be Jasper County’s next Chief Magistrate. Angie Steele received 45.85 percent of the vote Tuesday, but not enough to prevent a run-off. Tim Lam was second with 32.78 percent of the vote, and Bobby Jacobs was eliminated with…
Read MoreGraduations Are Held
More than 150 students received their high school diplomas last weekend in Jasper County with Jasper County High School and Shiloh Christian Academy holding graduation exercises Friday evening, and Piedmont Academy doing the same on Saturday morning. The students were highlighted in a special section in last week’s Monticello News. This week’s paper includes numerous…
Read MoreDouglas McAuthur Hayslip
Mr. Douglas McAuthur Hayslip, Sr., age 74 of Shady Dale, Ga., passed away on Monday, May 9, 2016 at Abbey Hospice. Mr. Hayslip was born in Cordele, Ga. on February 16, 1942. He is preceded in death by his parents, Charlie Reese Hayslip and Lela Mae Dogget Hayslip; son, Christopher Allen Hayslip. Mr. Hayslip was…
Read MoreCommission Discusses Budget
The Jasper County Commission continued work on the budget at a work session Monday evening. After reviewing work done by County Manager Mike Benton to cut some of the requests, commissioners agreed they would continue to work toward a budget that would result in a tax rate of 16 mills. Mr. Benton presented several scenarios,…
Read MoreThe Second Doublewide on the Right, part 37
I’m Fixin’ To Present Part 37 of The Second Doublewide on the Right: After Reverend Ricky Lee Jones and Jimmy Ray Hurd had stacked the materials for the new roof behind the reverend’s church, he had paid Jimmy Ray off with hundred dollar bills—five of them. There was no receipt, and the reverend didn’t ask…
Read MoreWhen Tent Dwelling Ends
In our culture, some taboo topics of discussion remain uncomfortable to discuss when someone brings them up. The kind of topic that makes people fidget outwardly and squirm inwardly. The kind of topic that many in the circle of conversation are thinking: “I wished he had not brought that up.” A topic like death. Interestingly,…
Read MoreHappy Spring To All!
Get out and enjoy our spring wildflowers that are lining the back roads of Jasper County. You’ll see Queen Anne’s lace, black-eyed susans, and goldenrods. With our recent blackberry winter weather, we are bound to have a bumper crop of blackberries. Our blackberry bushes have already bloomed and have some berries. So spend a few…
Read MoreIgnoring Children in Need
You are ignoring children in need. Abused. Beaten. Neglected. Starved. Abandoned. Children living in fear. Children in need. Children placed into foster care. At any given day, there are over 500,000 children placed in foster care in the United States. Each of these children has suffered immeasurable hurt, unimaginative pain, and unspeakable horrors from those…
Read MoreCougars Looking for Three-Peat
The Piedmont Academy baseball team is now halfway on its journey to a three-peat. The Diamond Cougars swept Grace Christian of Bainbridge last week in the GISA Class AA state playoffs and are now preparing for the semifinal best-of-three series against Southwest Georgia Academy. Piedmont will host the semifinal matchup with a doubleheader Friday beginning…
Read MoreRobert Marshall Norman, Sr.
Robert Marshall Norman, Sr. (K4GRD), age 73, passed away Sunday, May 1, 2016 with his beloved wife beside him. His love for amateur radio helped to guide his profession and life for over 50 plus years. He belonged to Florida Amateur Radio Transmitting Society, Winter Haven Amateur Radio Club, American Radio Relay League (Life Member),…
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