A celebration of life for Willie James Smith, was to be held Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at Smith – Thomas Cemetery, 1000 Goosby Road in Monticello. Rev. Morris Smith, eulogist. Interment at Smith-Thomas Cemetery. On Friday April 22, 2022, surrounded by his beloved family, our dad was called home to be with his father. Willie…
Mrs. Ruby Boykin, who was born May 16, 1930, passed at the Retreat Nursing Home on April 24, 2022. A celebration of life for Mrs. Boykin is planned for Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 2 p.m. at St. James A.M.E. Church, 514 Funderburg Drive in Monticello. Public visitation/viewing is on Saturday, April 30, 2022, 9…
Brenda Louella Alley Born, age 71, of Hillsboro, passed away Tuesday, April 19, 2022, at Medical Navicent Health in Macon. Brenda Born was born in Marietta to Louella Morris Alley and the late Marvin Carthel Alley. She married the late John Benjamin “Ben” Born on September 1970 and they were married 51 years before his…
The Jasper County Public Facilities Authority (PFA) voted to select a bond agent and bond attorney last week to proceed with the Jasper County jail expansion project. Raymond James of Atlanta was selected at the bond agent and Roger Murray of Murray Barnes Finister of Atlanta as the bond attorney. Over the past year since…
Jasper County and other members of the JDA will begin to receive money from the Rivian electric vehicle plant next year. That is part of the economic development agreement the Joint Development Authority of Jasper, Morgan, Newton and Walton Counties approved Tuesday. The four-county development group is bringing Rivian Inc. to Stanton Springs North, a…
It’s spring! Just when you thought it may never really warm up…it’s in the 80s every day. At this writing, it is only supposed to get to 78 degrees today. But, it’s not the afternoon temps that were worrying me a little…it was the cool mornings. How do you dress? For the 40-something degree morning,…
I thank God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for saving me from death and giving me a new address. My address is Strait Street Way, which leadeth unto life, if you are wondering is there any more mansions on Strait and Narrow Way. Yes, because like Broad is the Way Street…
Over the years the powers that be have tried to ban books. My generation, the Baby Boomers, had one of the most popular banned books, “Catcher in the Rye.” Impossible to find in the school or public library, our English teacher, a recent graduate of Harvard University, supplied us with copies. Mainly, we looked for…