This house on West Washington Street is all dressed up for a festive Easter holiday. Easter is Sunday, April 24, and many area churches and other groups are celebrating with Easter egg hunts this weekend before the religious celebration the following weekend. On Easter Sunday, the Monticello Kiwnais Club will again sponsor the Easter sunrise…
Former Senator Joseph S. Higginbotham died April 3, 2011 in North Fort Myers, Fla.He represented Dekalb County in the Georgia House of Representatives and in the Senate. He was stationed in Korea with the Army and was also a Marine.Later in life he was the co-owner of Higginbotham Furniture. He enjoyed golf and boating and…
Henry “Bubba” Battle was born February 20, 1928 in Monticello to the late Henry Battle and Ella Sands Battle. He died March 25.Mr. Battle was a member of Rock Zion C.M.E. Church. He was employed at Feldspar Corporation in Monticello as an equipment mechanic for more than 30 years. He retired in the spring of…
James Foy “Jimmie” Rearden, Jr., 82, of Gray, died Sunday, April 3, 2011, at the Coliseum Medical Center in Macon.Mr. Rearden was born in Wetumpka, Ala. to the late James Foy Rearden, Sr. and Maysey Allen Rearden. He was a graduate of North Georgia College in Dahlonega. He served as a 1st Lt. in the…
Mrs. Helen Jordan-Maddox was born May 27, 1921 to Sidney and Lizzie Jordan in Putnam County. She was a member of Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church where she served faithfully for many years. In 1946 she met and married Duvoil Maddox. She was a devoted wife for 29 years until he died in 1995. During their…
The Jasper County Commissioners devoted their regular meeting Monday to discussing projects for a Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST).Currently Jasperites pay one penny on each dollar spent for a sales tax approved in 2005 to fund road improvements and other projects. That tax will expire next March, and commissioners are hoping voters will…
During the last four weeks the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office has reported nine different incidents throughout the county where air conditioning units have been stolen from residences. Five of those nine have occurred in Turtle Cove, and appear to be taking place at homes that are vacant or at homes where the owner is not…
Two Jasper County High School students were injured in this single vehicle accident last Saturday on Turtle Cove Trailway. Sadarius Rooks, driving a 1991 Honda Civic, and a passenger were injured and taken to the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon where they were treated and released. According to the report from the Georgia…
I’m fixing to be shed of these old winter-time blues.All those short, cold and dreary days are fixing to be gone. Those rainy days and Mondays that got you down are fixing to be washed away with warm spring rains and gentle breezes.I knew the days of shivering while the car warmed up, or when…
Today is the first day of one of my favorite annual sporting events. Today is the opening round of the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia. The event is contested every year on the fabled grounds of the Augusta National Golf Club which is located on Washington Road in Augusta. In the mid-nineties I served…