Alma Ruth Lethco of Mansfield was found last Sunday morning, June 5, after she had gone missing from a home on County Line Road on Friday, June 3. According to family members, Ms. Lethco suffers from Alzheimer’s.After Ms. Lethco’s disappearance was reported, agents with the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office (JCSO), volunteer firemen and first responders,…
The driver of this car was airlifted Tuesday afternoon after he was pulled from the wreckage by volunteers and Emergency Medical Service (EMS) personnel. Those responding thought that extrication equipment was needed, but they managed to free the man. The single-vehicle accident occurred on Hwy. 16 west just outside the city limits. No further information…
The Jasper County Commission voted Monday for Chief Financial Officer Lorri Smith to move forward with advertising the proposed budget of $7,852,876 (see page 6).After several budget meetings over the past few weeks, commissioners voted 3-2 to move forward with the proposal. The dissenting votes came from Commission Vice-Chairman Alan Cox and Commissioner Jack Bernard…
Jasper County volunteer firefighters have been busy in the last week, responding to three structure fires in the space of five days, along with spending all day Saturday and Sunday morning looking for a missing person, and assisting at the Shady Dale Rodeo.Last Friday, they responded to a structure fire on Maddox Road in northern…
I’m fixing to listen to some Sirius radio.I’ve got these music channels on my satellite TV called Sirius Radio, and the lowest channel plays music from the forties, the next one up plays music from the fifties (the best), then the seventies, and so on up through the nineties. For some reason it doesn’t go…
Next week I will be in Athens attending the yearly session of the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church. I will be one of 3,000 United Methodists from the northern section of our state that will be a part of this four day gathering. During this meeting we will do the “business” of…
“There is a magic in that little word, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond its hallowed limits.” — Robert Southey, English poetI made a familiar trek Sunday afternoon.Since 1997, my path home takes me from the place I reside — Winder — to the place that will…
Do you have any idea what a family of eight has to go through to get ready for a hour-and-a-half trip to Thomaston. Actually, let me give you a clearer picture here, because we’re not talking about just any family of eight, we’re talking about my family of eight! C’mon guys, you know what I’m…
(Editor’s Note: The following is a recap of this year’s legislative session by Jasper County’s representative, Susan Holmes. The wrap-up will be continued in next week’s Monticello News.)The Georgia General Assembly’s 2011 legislative session began on an icy Monday in January and ended on a warm Thursday in April. During the 40 legislative days that…
QUEEN SNAKE As a lover of snakes, I can’t believe I’m doing this. I REALLY can’t believe I’m doing this! I’m about to reveal a major hyperbole that wildlife educators and conservationists have been repeating for years and years to garner more public appreciation for snakes. “Snakes are good because they eat mice, rats, and…