With Independence Day falling on Sunday this year, many locales celebrated on Saturday. That was the case in Shady Dale, where they had old-timey fun and games with a watermelon eating contest, sack races and more. Sarah Skinner (left) watched Nolan and Hemingway House, and Ally Manzanarez eat watermelon, while Elijah House watched. At dark,…
tion: Julia Aldridge, Camara Campbell, Amber Dooley, Anjelica Garcia, Cortlyn Goen, Josephine Fowler, Lorilei Fowler, Kaitlyn Harvey, Ryan Henderson, Emma Jacobs, Gavin Jacobs, Nathanael Mann, Will McElheney, Toren Nix, Samuel Nunez, Ethan Proctor, Jorden Reed, King Smith, J.K. Strength, Zachary Tomlin, Luke Vaughn, Rebecca Waddell, and Kaylee York.
Judge Alison Burleson presided over the Jasper County Superior Court criminal, civil and arraignment calendars last week. Jarron McKnight was sentenced to one year in Jasper County jail on a lesser charge of giving false information to a law enforcement officer. He was credited with time served since November 2019. Billy Watson was sentenced to…
All the great authors say that writing about loss and pain can be cathartic. Here goes. I lost my mom a few weeks back to a battle I didn’t expect. She celebrated 79 years on this earth on May 18, the same day she returned from a trip with the sniffles and a sore throat.…
The Jasper County Recreation Department summer league teams have been busy. As shown above the 12 & under baseball team All-Stars traveled to Screven County for a game. The team is coached by Brian Dean, Keith Mason and Carlton Johnson. Meanwhile the 10 & under girls softball team traveled to Jeff Davis County for action…
I imagine every state in our country has someone similar to Jim Boyd. Shorty Price could be viewed as Boyd’s counterpart in Alabama. Even at the national level we have had the presidential campaigns of Harold Stassen and Pat Paulsen. Multiple times they ran. The same number of times they lost. Here in Georgia, Boyd…