Cougars Hold Robert Toombs Back For the fourth time this season the Piedmont Academy football team posted at least 50 points and as a result remained undefeated last Friday in a 54-27 win against visiting Robert Toombs. A 200-yard rushing performance by Blake Hammock helped lead the way for the Cougars, who are now 8-0…
Canes Goal Line Offense With 7:06 left in the third quarter of the Monticello vs. Greene County football game, these were the facts:After a pick-off of a McMichael pass, a crowd-hushing injury to running back A. J. Thomas on that tackle at the Monticello 24, and a five play Tiger drive, the Canes were on…
Monticello will celebrate Haunticello tomorrow, Oct. 29, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. with businesses on and around the Square offering treats for children who come calling “Trick or Treat” and are dressed in costume. The event is sponsored by the Monticello-Jasper County Chamber of Commerce. In addition to the treats being given out by businesses,…
Some 8,494 Jasperites are eligible to vote in the mid-term election next Tuesday, and nearly 10 percent of them likely will have already voted when early voting ends Friday.More than 800 people had voted by Tuesday afternoon this week, with three days of early voting to go. A sample ballot was included in the October…
Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin is alerting consumers to the recall of some frozen green pea products. The Pictsweet Company of Bells, Tenn., is recalling certain codes of Kroger and Walmart store brand products containing frozen green peas after the company learned that some of the packages may contain glass fragments, which may cause injury…
Julie L. Keasler, 52, a resident of Monticello for 23 years died, Saturday, October 16, 2010 with her husband and her son by her side.Mrs. Keasler was an active member of New Rocky Creek Baptist Church in Mansfield. She was a talented artist and a dedicated housewife.Survivors include her husband of 25 years, John Keasler,…
Funeral services for Bobby Lee Dearrao were held Saturday, Oct. 16, at New Enon Baptist Church in Godfrey. Rev. Benjamin Hill officiated; burial was in Midway Independent Church cemetery in Shady Dale. Mr. Dearro was born March 19, 1955 to Mable Dearro and the late Willie F. Dearro. He was a member of Midway Independent…
I’m fixing to start getting up early in the mornings. You know they say the early bird gets the worm. I suppose that bit of wisdom is alluding to the fact that if you know the way to the buffet and you get there early and are first in line you will be the first…
When I was a student at the University of Georgia, I took a class called “Drama Appreciation.” The purpose of the class, I suppose, was to give non theatre majors an appreciation of the performing arts. I went to my drama appreciation class most days, gave the class minimal outside effort and made a “B”…
Jasper County and Monticello residents, well us girls anyway, are all abuzz about the current crop of STARS on “Dancing With the Stars,” including a guy named The Situation. I excitedly told my husband that The Situation had been voted off DWTS. He had a questioning look on his face and asked, “what kind of…