Kathryn Cooper Dillard Patton, 87, of Due West Retirement Center died Sunday, Nov. 6 at The Hospice House in Greenwood, S.C.Born in Statham, Ga., she was a daughter of the late Herbert Alva and Grace Cooper Dillard.Mrs. Patton was a retired newspaper columnist with more than 25 years of service with The Monticello News and…
Memorial services for William G. Van Buren will be held Saturday, Nov. 19 at St. James A.M.E. Church in Monticello at 11 a.m.He died October 30 at his home in Sparta, Illinois.Mr. Van Buren was born in Monticello to George Jackson and Cosdena Van Buren on March 29, 1929. He was raised with his siblings…
Funeral services for Joe Thomas Boykin, Jr.,43, were held November 12 at Mt. Olive Baptist Church with burial in the Church Cemetery. The Rev. Jimmy Horton officiated. He died in the early hours of November 7 at his residence.Mr. Boykin was born January 6, 1962 in Jasper County to Ruby Boykin and the late Joe…
It’s just a few days away. A day we’ll get off from work. Hooray! Can’t wait. It’s the day for turkey and stuffing, and all the fixings, with cranberry sauce and maybe pumpkin pie, and the most important thing of all—the football games. Hooray! Can’t wait. Maybe I can get someone to bring my plate…
The Monticello News this week mourns the passing of a long-time newspaper columnist, Kathryn Patton. Mrs. Patton wrote a weekly column for The News for some 25 years, never expecting any payment, just enjoying the opportunity to write. And, I think she knew that she struck a chord wth many readers.I have no idea how…
Work is progressing on the Jasper County School System’s new high school site as the landscape is in the process of being prepared for building construction.As Parrish Construction contends with the landscape, Robertson, Loia, Roof Architects and Engineer firm interior designer Jessica Winstead has been planning the interior schematic. During last week’s Board of Education…
Monticello City Council members moved through their agenda swiftly during their November meeting last Thursday approving a 6.62 mill rate for 2005 advalorem taxes, among other items of business. On a second visitation the proposed millage rate was accepted 3-1 after their initial vote, taken earlier during the meeting, failed to acquire a majority vote…
The Jasper County Commissioners last Thursday cut nearly $200,000 from line items in the general fund and moved the funds to “contingency” in an attempt to keep from having a shortfall in the 2006 budget.The commissioners set the tax levy before approving the budget, a process backwards from how things have been done in previous…