In a sea of purple, Friday night football in Monticello has returned!In a scrimmage game last Friday, the Monticello Hurricanes hosted Strong Rock Christian School from Locust Grove and won 20-7.With band parents behind the concession stands, students overflowing in the cordoned off student section, the band and cheerleaders in place, and parents, grandparents, and…
Piedmont Academy’s fast-pitch softball team posted an impressive road win Monday against an opponent that is not accustomed to losing. The Lady Cougars defeated Bethlehem Christian Academy 15-2 as Madison Johnson led the offensive charge by driving in six runs. A nine-run fourth inning helped seal the victory for Piedmont. Even before Monday’s game Lady…
So my “sassy” morphed into “spontaneous” last week as I decided to take my eight year old to a mid-week concert that I had debated about for a few weeks. Spontaneous used to be my middle name, pre-parenthood that is. Living the “free life,” it used to be nothing for me to decide on a…
Psalms 118:6-8 The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? The Lord is with me; He is my helper. I will look in triumph—meaning victory on my enemies. It is better to take refuge—meaning a place for your/us safe from danger and difficult times that’s in the…
Now that many of us are seniors, literally, we may fondly remember our last year of school, our senior year of high school. Now it’s your turn. For the previous 11 years, life has been good being taken care of by parents or guardians and most decisions made by them. Some days the biggest decision…
Items from my political notebook as the heat of summer continues to pound us into submission: It seems in the battle for the Democratic Party presidential nominee in 2020 there is a new leader, at least in the first contest. Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren has soared into first place in Iowa and now holds a…
SHERIFF POPE (L), GOVENOR KEMP Jasper County Sheriff Donnie Pope met with Gov. Brian Kemp at the Capitol last week where he was sworn in as the newest member of the Georgia Board of Corrections. The Board of Corrections is composed of 19 members, one from each congressional district in the state and five members…
JAMES MURDOCK W/BOOK HE PENNED “I love living in Monticello. My wife is from here. She visited me when I was living and in Albany, N.Y.” That’s all it took. That visit, in 2014, caused him to pack up and follow his now wife, Jenna, back to Jasper County to her home on her family’s…
The Jasper County School Board Tuesday got an update on the new athletic facilities at Jasper County High School, and with luck the Lady Hurricanes will be able to play their September 5 game at the new facility. Maintenance Director Perry Hyde said he is hoping the fire marshal will come Friday and approve and…
Trisha Yearwood celebrates Every Girl album release with “every girl road trip” Labor Day weekend. Trisha Yearwood will come back to her Georgia roots this Labor Day weekend to retrace the drive she took countless times to Music City to follow her dreams before she became a country superstar. Yearwood is kicking off the three-day…