While sitting in my doctors waiting room recently, I noticed two young boys, maybe 4 and 7 years old, amusing themselves with some storybooks. Their mother had given them instructions on behavior before she took another child with her to the back to see the doctor. They were extremely well behaved, just sitting in the…
Here we are on the brink of another opportunity to celebrate Christmas. As Christians, we place a lot of importance on these days in December. I enjoyed Dr. Brown’s column last week and appreciate the points that he made. This word Christmas originated as a compound meaning “Christ’s Mass.” It is derived from the Middle…
Over the weekend I had the pleasure of watching our “hometown” Falcons beat the Seattle Seahawks by a score of 34-18 to become 12 and 2 (with 12 wins and two losses, for those who don’t do sports) to become the number one team in the NFC South division and the obtain the top spot…
After five wins to start the season, the Piedmont Academy boys basketball team fell in a pair of weekend contests.The Cougars were defeated by Covenant 44-25 Friday before falling to John Milledge 63-19 Saturday. For coach Josh Daher, the games were simply part of the learning process for his team.“We’ve made some improvements learning the…
The Jasper County Sheriff’s Office (JCSO) arrested nine individuals on felony drug charges Friday in the Alcovy Shores area. Charged with the sale of Hydrocodonde, a schedule III controlled substance, were William Joseph Biddy (two counts), Albert Scott Sorrells (two counts), Steven Kelly Brownlee, Myron Kenneth Brewer, Kandy Annette Fite, Mary Ann Cleveland and Lisa…
O.K.., so I get home from work tonight at around 5:30, expecting to begin dinner. Cheryl was on the computer busy doing something for home school, and the children were running around the house like a bunch of banshees.I think this cold weather has had a strange effect on them; or they are freezing and…
I’m fixing to get my two front teeth for Christmas.I remember the time when all I wanted for Christmas was my two front teeth.They even coaxed me into singing a song about it during assembly at school when I was in the second grade. I wasn’t too happy with having to perform that bit of…
It is time for some straight talk about Christmas. In recent years there has been some controversy over public institutions using the term “Happy Holidays” in lieu of the term Merry Christmas. In some places there have been controversies surrounding nativity scenes on courthouse squares, sacred Christmas carols being sung in public schools and other…
The Weather Outside Is FrightfulBrrr…it’s cold.Weather in Georgia has always been somewhat unpredictable, but if you had told me we’d have temperatures in the teens this FALL, I would have thought you’d lost your mind.Well, folks, winter does not officially begin until next week, and there has been snow in Georgia, and temperatures right here…
FYI-Some statistics est. 50 million people in the USA playing fantasy sports on the internet each day. That’s about 1 N 6 of us.So about 2,000 of us in Jasper Co. could be playing right now. Somewhere out there in internetland someone developed this game, pts. for this, pts. for that, imaginary bowl games, fantasy…