Representatives of the Department of Public Health, which is basically the parent agency to the Jasper County Health Department, painted a glum picture for Jasper County Commissioners Monday saying that if the county cannot find some more money for the health department it may have to close, at least some days of the week. Nancy…
Jasper County Board of Assessors discussed a variety of tax office maintenance issues during their October regular meeting held Tuesday.The first matter at hand was to conduct three conservation use (CU) appeal hearings. Melinda Malcolm, the owner of 12.3 acres on Henderson Mill Road, petitioned for a reversal of her initial denial which was based…
Jasper County Water & Sewer Authority members were informed of good news on two fronts as they whisked through business Tuesday evening during the authority’s regular monthly meeting.After a long, drawn out wait-and-see fiasco that was teetering toward a legal battle with the county commission about fire hydrant funding, authority chairman Brack Pound reported Tuesday…
It wasn’t the prettiest win the Piedmont Academy football team has recorded this season, but coach Danny Camp will still take it.The Cougars improved to 3-2 this fall by rallying to defeat visiting Windsor 14-10 last Friday. Trailing 10-0 midway through the third quarter, Piedmont suddenly found some offense and was able to put enough…
By JACK BERNARDEarlier this year at a Team Jasper meeting, a local businessman and civic leader talked about our community…and stated something that needs to be said more often and made a part of all of our lives (me included). He talked about positively focusing on issues facing our community versus negatively focusing on personalities…or,…
Recently I caught a chartered bus in Greensboro and rode with about 60 other University of Georgia fans over to Columbia, S.C. for the Georgia-South Carolina football game. It was a great evening for those of us of the Dawg Nation as we whipped South Carolina and kept them from scoring.Traveling with us on the…
I’m fixing to be a winner.I’m fixing to yell as loud as I can. It’s okay to do that—it’s football season and we want to whip our opponents. Yelling fires up our team so they can do that.Football is a wonderful game, it represents true democracy because it does not consider who your daddy is,…
Jasper County voters may now apply for absentee ballots, and 124 already have, according to Chief Registrar Carole Norris.All voters in the county can vote on November 7 for state representative and senator, U.S. Congressman, governor, and numerous other state offices, while some have a say in some local offices.Voters in the city will be…
After taking their seasonal bye-week last Friday, Monticello Hurricanes Athletic Director and Head Football Coach Doug Huff said the time off helped the team a lot.“We had some things we needed to spend a good bit of time working on. This past Tuesday, Wed-nesday and Thursday we had three very good practices and got back…