The Jasper County Volunteer Firefighters Auxiliary raised nearly $1,000 Saturday night with a Womanless Beauty Pageant featuring several of the volunteers. Contestants included (seated, left to right) Robb Leggett as “Mona Lot Legett,” David Moore as “Nurse Good Baby,” Matt Tumlin as “TrixieBouche,” Brian Holland as “Sue,” and Tyler Brown as “Redneck Woman.” Others include…
Piedmont Academy will graduate 25 students at commencement exercises this Saturday, May 21 at 10 a.m. in the school gymnasium.Seniors at Jasper County High School will graduate on the holiday weekend, Saturday, May 28, at 8 p.m. at Rose Bowl field. The Monticello News will publish its annual graduation section next Thursday, May 26, saluting…
“A mill rate increase is not a tax increase,” Chief Appraiser Lynn Bentley told the commissioners at a work session Monday, while explaining the changes to the digest and the “rollback rate.”Mrs. Bentley said Jasper County’s tax digest last year was about $391 million. This year’s digest is only $347 million. She said the greatest…
75 years ago today, Gone with the Wind was published. Margaret Mitchell had spent over 10 years writing and rewriting what many believe is the greatest American novel ever written. A year before an editor from Macmillian Publishing in New York came to Atlanta looking for fresh ideas for novels. He was leaving by train…
I don’t know if you have noticed lately…but things around this old world are getting a little crazy. I keep up with the current events by dialing up cnn.com on my computer, and by listening to the radio. If I were to sit in front of a television for any length of time, I think…
I admit it readily. I like the sound of those cicadas that come up every 13 years. Indeed, it does sound like a UFO taking off, as one friend suggested. My wife believes it sounds like a large generator in the back yard. I, though, really enjoy the sound, as it is yet another member…
After earning a state playoff appearance without the benefit of any seniors on the roster, the Piedmont Academy baseball team is already looking ahead to next spring when its entire roster returns.“We were pleasantly surprised by this season,” Cougar coach Danny Camp said. “We played our best baseball in the state playoffs. The light came…
The ‘Canes began spring football practice on May 9, and the two week session will close this Friday, May 20 with a “Purple and White” game to be played at Rose Bowl field with action scheduled to get under way at 7 p.m. Admission to the game will be $3.Spring practice allows the coaches 10…
Funeral services for Robert Lee Smith, who died May 9, 2011, were held Saturday, May 14, at St. James A.M.E. Church in Monticello. Rev. Donna Marie Calix officiated, burial was in South View Cemetery.Mr. Smith was born February 2, 1943, in Jasper County, the son of the late Percy Smith, Sr., and the late Alberta…
Life is busy isn’t it? I don’t know why we only get 24 hours in a day, somehow it just doesn’t seem like enough time. It may be enough for those who do not have children, or those who are completely lazy and have nothing on their calendar. But for the rest of us out…