The Jasper County Public Facilities Authority (PFA) voted unanimously to issue bonds to generate revenues in the amount of $7 million for the Jasper County jail renovation and expansion project.During the called meeting Monday, the four PFA members Don Jernigan, Bill Nash, James Thiele, and Hal Harris received reports from County Manager Mike Benton about…
The Jasper County Commission unanimously approved a resolution authorizing the necessary documents for the issuance of Jasper County Public Facilities Authority’s revenue bonds, including an intergovernmental agreement with the PFA. The bonds will raise some $7 million for renovation and expansion of the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office (JCSO), and the county has another $3 million…
The June 3 Jasper County Magistrate Court results included the following sentences from the ordinance violation calendar and civil calendar. Ordinance violation rulings included Alfred Johnson, dangerous structure and violation of international property maintenance code, dismissed; Gertrude Thomas, dangerous structure or premises and unlawful junk on residential property, dismissed; Pauline Card, unlawful junk on residential…
Finding a friend group can be difficult to find. If you have a high school student, you’ve probably found out that the friend group changes as often as the Georgia weather does. For us adults, it’s often just as difficult. Allow me to point all of us in a direction that we maybe haven’t considered,…
June, named for the Roman goddess, Juno, was dedicated to marriage and child-bearing. For those reasons and the many options of places to be wed in June, by a lake or on a beach, in a park, in a church, sunny and warm days, makes us want to be outside for events. June is the…
(Editor’s Note: Elliott Brack, Editor and Publisher of the GwinnettForum wrote the following piece, and it is so fitting, I asked to reprint it here. Mr. Brack gave his blessing.) Today’s media market is far different from the way it was just a few years ago. There are fewer newspapers, which in our way of…
Jasper County deputies stayed busy over the last week, making nearly 100 traffic stops, and responding to many calls of various types. For the long Memorial Day weekend, there were few accidents, but there were numerous alarm calls, some caused by the weather. Persons arrested in the last week, and their charges, include: •Kelby Jamire…
(Editor’s Note: The following is part two of a feature on Monticelloan Dianne Parker’s recent trip to the Holy Land. The first part was published in last week’s Monticello News.) By DIANNE PARKER Many cities are famous, but Jerusalem towers above them all. Yes, it is the most important place in the Holy Land because…
(Editor’s Note: Jasperite Jimmy Jordan, former principal at Jasper County High School served 21 years for the Professional Association of Georgia Educators (PAGE), and he retired last month. The following article is reprinted with permission from PAGE.) With a six-foot-two stature, a sonorous bass voice, and an eager-to-engage personality, it’s hard to miss Jimmy Jordan…
Piedmont Academy held its 52nd commencement exercises Saturday for 28 graduates of the school, including 10 lifetime Cougars starting in kindergarten or before. Those lifetime Cougars include James Brody Anderson, David James Bishop, Audrey Harris Brady, Ethan Michael Brewer, John Mark Hicks, Maggie Elizabeth Johnston, Isabelle Fleming Sealy, Hannah Marie Tyler, Madelyn Nicole Waddleton and…