Honoring the Spirit of Evangelist Leah Braswell Dumas was on Saturday, April 18, 2020 at noon at Rosa Mae Braswell Cemetery in Hillsboro.Bishop Patricia Standifer, Officiate/Eulogist Evangelist Leah Dumas, the daughter of the late Jesse and Overseer Rosa Tillman Braswell, was born November 23, 1955, in Round Oak. She departed this life on April 14,…
I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make boast in the Lord, not COVID-19. The humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together. I sought the Lord, and he heard me,…
I love this time of year. The earth is greening; flowers are blooming, birds are singing, and the temperature is not too cold, not too hot for the most part. I saw on Facebook a couple weeks ago that people hereabouts were seeing hummingbirds. So, I had two very small hummingbird feeders that I put…
The craziness our world has been thrown into continues. Day after day, week after week and now month after month we continue to press on despite many things still being in chaos due to the ongoing COVID-19 health crisis. In reality it’s only been about a month since many businesses closed their doors, students began…
Wednesday was Earth Day. With the pandemic, Earth Day seems…sadly trivial. What this global lockdown has resulted in though, beneficially, is cleaner skies. Less traffic. Less exhaust. Fewer emissions. Even skies above smoggy metropolises are clearer. People are connecting with the earth, tilling soil, weeding, planting flowers, growing vegetables. In large cities, people are stepping…
UGA SENIOR CLAY EVANS Clay Evans, a Jasper County High School graduate and former Marching Hurricane, responded to the call for Covid-19 college experiences as an undergraduate senior at the University of Georgia in Athens. Like all students nationwide from primary to high school, post-secondary students have been subject to distance learning as institutions shuttered…
SENIOR CHRISTOPHER BLAKELEY (Editor’s Note: The Monticello News is interviewing high school seniors in an effort to highlight them as they are missing out on so many year-end milestones at school. The system vows there will be a graduation ceremony, but those arrangements have not yet been made. The News still plans to have a…
Gov. Brian Kemp activated National Guardsmen to help with the COVID-19 pandemic, and one job the guard was tasked with was to clean every nursing home and assisted living location in the state. The national guard came to The Retreat and cleaned and sanitized throughout the facility, then moved on to the hospital and the…
The Jasper County Landfill is open again, as of Thursday morning April 23, after the County Commissioners agreed in their meeting Monday evening to open it. There will be a tipping fee, but the commissioners promise a free month later in the year. (April was supposed to be free for Jasperites to clean up around…
Many surgical procedures require a completely sterile operating room. This is also known as asepsis, or the absence of any infection or infectious materials. Asepsis is a crucial part of protecting both the patient and the doctors helping them. There are several techniques surgeons and other medical personnel use to create a sterile field during…