This is an exciting week…no, I’m not moving into my new house…that will be a really exciting week. But, Dairy Queen, an institution in this town, moved into its new home last week, and opened to the public Monday morning. There was a “soft opening” last Friday and Saturday for friends and family, and I…
Giving honor to God our Father and to Jesus Christ our Son of Man our friend and our savior we need all—so don’t fool yourself. To the Monticello News staff, I hope and pray that all is well. July 24, 2022—Parent’s Day Ephesians 4:13 says advice to husbands, wives and children. We all come in…
Yes, when it’s 93 degrees in the shade in Monticello, what we need is a month of Christmas movies on the Hallmark Channel where there is always snow, albeit, fake. Amazingly, the snow in these movies is always gleaming and white instead of gritty, dirty and sloppy after a day or so. You want some…
The Georgia Department of Community Health (DCH) announced Monday grant awards totaling $9 million to 10 Georgia rural hospitals as part of its annual Rural Hospital Stabilization Grant program, currently in its seventh phase. Jasper Memorial Hospital in Monticello is among the hospitals which will receive $900,000 to support initiatives and services that strengthen access…
The Jasper County Community Food Bank is looking for help from local farmers and gardeners. The source of their fresh produce recently dried up, and the Food Bank would like to continue to offer the fresh food to its clients. Therefore, Food Bank directors are asking area farmers if they can help. The Food Bank…
Have you dreamed of going to Venice, Italy and riding in a vaporetto boat along the Grand Canal? Have you dreamed of going to London, England and seeing Buckingham Palaces’ changing of the guard or strolling across Tower Bridge? Or going to the “City of Lights,” Paris, France? Can’t afford it? Doesn’t it cost a…
On Friday, July 22, the Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) released accountability results for Milestones testing conducted throughout the 2021-2022 school year. Jasper County Charter System demonstrated gains or held steady in 15 of 20 areas of assessment in terms of the developing learner level (Level II-IV). The system also demonstrated gains in 10 of…
Jasper County and Monroe County emergency personnel performed a collaborative rescue Sunday evening for two late night swimmers who managed to get stranded on the Ocmulgee River off Hwy. 83 near the Jasper/Monroe border. Shawn Holmes, the Jasper County medic on duty when the call came in after 10 p.m., noted that Jasper services responded…
Beverly Ann Kirchner, 74, of Fayetteville, passed on Thursday, July 28, 2022. Beverly was born to Ed Ballew and Sara Campbell Ballew in Fulton County, Ga., on Friday, Feb. 6, 1948. Beverly was preceded in death by her parents; brother, Paul Ballew; and former husband, Frederick Kirchner. She is survived by her son, Keith (Shelley)…
Rev. Jonathan T. Van Deventer, 61, of Monticello, husband of Debra Yarnall Van Deventer, departed the church militant for the church triumphant Sunday, July 10, 2022. His funeral service will be held on Saturday July 23, 2022, in Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1157 Sam Rittenberg Blvd. in Charleston, S.C. at 11 a.m. A second service will…