This 2018 Freightliner driven by Shawn McManus of Rock Hill, S.C. overturned on Hwy. 83 south about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday. Emergency officials immediately responded as the first calls said the driver was entrapped and the truck was in a creek. As it is clear, the truck is not in a creek, and the driver and…
It should be a little cooler at the Department of Family and Children Services on the ground floor of the city government complex after this new air conditioner was installed this week. The new AC required the use of a crane to set it up, so it made interesting watching Tuesday morning.
Tommy and Nancy Davis, with daughter Brin Hogan spent a week in Colorado watching Brin’s 12 year old daughter Jacely play in a softball tournament. Out of 86 teams, her team, Impact, came in second place, their only loss coming in the championship game. Jacely’s younger sister, Kenzie, also made the trip. The picture is…
Doug and Lura Currie of Monticello recently took a driving trip out west, and took The Monticello News with them. This photo was taken in the Badlands, a national park in South Dakota. They visited may sites, and took a helicopter tour during their time out west. They stopped at various locations along their route,…
By KATHY MUDD The Jasper County School Board held two public hearings on its budget Tuesday, and no one attended the evening meeting to comment. However, Fransis Wayne Bales attended the 11 a.m. meeting and spoke to those present. Mr. Bales read his remarks, and shared them with The News: “If our budget don’t have…
Funeral services for Mrs. Josephine Collier Moore were held July 17, 2021 at New Bethel Grove Baptist Church Cemetery with Eulogist Rev. Jerry Williams. She died July 13, 2021 at Coliseum Hospital in Macon. Mrs. Moore was born in Butts County on August 24, 1944 to the late Willie B. Collier and Lizzie Lue McDowell…
Funeral services for Oliver Eugene Dunn were held July 14, 2021 at Shady Grove Baptist Church Cemetery with Eulogist Rev. Frank Norwood. He passed away on July 9, 2021 in hospice care while battling lung cancer and eventually succumbing to cardiac arrest from a blood clot. Mr. Dunn was born in Jasper County on May…
Warren Samuel “Sammy” Blackwell, Sr., age 86, of Hillsboro, passed away Wednesday, July 14, 2021, at his residence. Sammy Blackwell was a lifelong resident of Jasper County. His parents were the late Bryant Blackwell and Minnie Lou McMichael Blackwell. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Annie Belle Tillman…
We’ve heard plenty of adjectives to describe the 2020 election. In fact, we are still hearing them. Words such as fraudulent, corrupt and illegitimate are just some of the more commonly-used ones. In reality, it’s not about any of those things. What it’s really about is being poor losers. We are all guilty of it.…
2021 Olympics will have 33 sports including five new additions, surfing, sport climbing, skateboarding, karate, and baseball/softball. Since the modern Olympics began in 1896, many sports have been added and subtracted. Some of these are questionable as sports. Take for instance, solo synchronized swimming with the keyword being solo which means only one person, but…