By Kasey HallJasper Co. 4-H AgentThe new Jasper County 4-H BB team was represented by 11 members at the Northeast District qualification match held on Saturday, April 12 in Madison County. Those 4-H’ers that made up the Precise Purple team included Malcom Ruark, Emmett Dodson, Robby Lanier, Carter Kelly, Jaden Hanks, and Anderson Stephens. Levi…
Deputies with the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office (JCSO) were called to a residence in North Jasper County that resulted in them obtaining and executing a search warrant based on their observations on scene, and located the pictured items, in the top photo, including a handgun, suspected methamphetamine and suspected marijuana and several items of drug…
The Jasper Jubilee was held Saturday with a wide variety of vendors offering food, prizes, rocks and minerals, the Busy Bees, Advocare, Thirty-One, and many more. The fun began with a 5K road race on Saturday that was basically the Deer Dash backwards, and when everyone had finished it was time for the flag raising…
Linda Harrison Jordan, 80, beloved wife and mother, died on April 16, 2025 in Monticello. Linda was born on September 16, 1944 in Miami, Fla. to the late Robert Perry Harrison and the late Nora Sanders Harrison Ball. Linda’s father was serving as a dentist in the U.S. Army Airforce in Miami during World War…
By KATHY MUDD The Jasper County Commissioners held a work session Monday evening to hear a presentation from a firm that would like to take over Jasper County’s dirt road maintenance, then the commissioners talked about the landfill, and the possibility of opening it five days a week. Wendell Swartz talked to the commissioners about…
By SUSAN JACOBS In Jasper Superior Court Tuesday Judge Terry Massey allowed the current leadership of Holy Nation Church and those in conflict with that leadership 48 hours to resolve their issues before he issues a temporary order within the next few days with the parties to reappear in court on May 27, 2025. Court…
We had the best Easter! And now that it’s past, everything has settled back in, with spring still thrilling my soul every minute as we dread/look forward to the long, hot summer days. Learning when I woke up Easter Monday that Pope Francis had died…I thought at least it was fitting for such a figure…
Psalms 16:9-10 No wonder my heart is glad, and I rejoice. My body rests in safety. For you will not leave my soul among the dead or allow your holy ones to rot in the grave! Ephesians 4:30 Don’t cause the Holy Spirit sorrow by the way you-me live. Remember, he is the One who…