The Jasper County School Board Tuesday learned that there have been 18 cases of COVID-19 in the school system since in-person learning started back last month.Of those cases, four were discovered Tuesday—three studens and one staff member, and quarantine letters were sent home. Of the total cases, School Superintendent Kenny Garland said 11 were active…
The Monticello-Jasper County Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a scarecrow contest and Deer symbol scavenger hunt this fall. The contest is open to all individuals/families, non-profit organizations, schools, churches, clubs, businesses and governments. Participants must pre-register, and the registration deadline is September 23. Entry forms may be submitted in persons to the Visitors’ Center, located…
Our bodies are built up and maintained from the food we eat. Daily there is a breaking down of the tissues of the body, and the components to restore this breaking down of tissues are obtained from our food. In this sense our body can be likened to a house in need of repairs. One…
A four-run third inning helped lift the Piedmont Academy Middle School softball team to a 5-4 win against visiting Gatewood last week. The Lady Cougars also scored a run in the bottom of the third inning. Gatewood scored three runs in the top of the fifth and added one more in the top of the…
The 2020 region opener was a success for the Piedmont Academy varsity fast-pitch softball team. The Lady Cougars blanked long-time rival Gatewood 15-0 in a home contest last week behind a 13-hit performance. After scoring four runs in the bottom of the first inning and two more in the second, Piedmont sealed the deal with…
The Jasper County-Monticello High School junior varsity softball team fell to Lamar County 12-2 last week. Coach Brady McMichael said the JV Lady Canes played a solid game and the final score does not indicate how well they played. “We had a really good defensive game,” McMichael said. “I give a lot of credit to…
Sometimes you experience a day that you will never forget and that day was Sunday, Sept. 17, 2000 for me. On that date, the girls, as we like to call ourselves, finally got the privilege of eating at the Windows on the World restaurant, located on 107th story of 1 World Trade Center building in…
Prior to coming to Mansfield Baptist Church to serve as pastor in 1996, I served as youth pastor at a church in Columbus from 1991-1996. After I left that church to move to Newton County, the church I had previously served realized that the financial secretary had been embezzling funds from the church. When that…
“I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord,” remember that delayed first line that comes after a musical interlude and drum series in that Phil Collins song “In The Air Tonight” that was featured in 80s famed drama series Miami Vice. The original show starred two dreamy subjects (at least back then),…
It’s been a long time since I was a high school student. In fact, it has been been more than three decades now since I roamed the halls of my high school as a student. Three decades plus. In some ways it seems longer yet in others it seems like just yesterday I was that…