ITEMS USED IN CREDIT CARD/OTHER FRAUD On December 5, Jasper County Sheriff’s Office Investigators, along with Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, executed a search warrant in Douglas County. The search warrant stemmed from the fraudulent activity of numerous Jasper County citizens’ personal banking information. During the execution of the search warrant items such as credit card…
It has become almost a habitual thing that every year as Christmas approaches for Christians to constantly speak, shout, and rant: “Keep Christ in Christmas!” As I have been pondering this and wonder just how Christian it is, I did a little investigating. And what I found is we need to “Put Christ in Christmas”…
The 2018 statewide election for Georgia is now officially over (thank goodness). As expected Republicans continue to hold every statewide office although each race was technically close as Democrats try to inch closer to breaking the red stranglehold on state politics. Georgia, like our country as a whole, remains politically divided and it seems that…
The Monticello City Council Tuesday agreed to begin charging Jasper County for electricity and gas used at Fire Station #3 in Monticello. The local cities and county recently completed negotiations and agreed upon Service Delivery Strategy, and the county agreed that fire was its responsibility. Therefore, Mayor Pro-tem Stone Workman, who opposed the SDS agreement…
I don’t know about you, but I nearly cried last week when I read Ted’s farewell. I have read all his books—his young adult fiction like A Yellow Watermelon and three others in the series…actually I’ve read five in the series, I think. And, I’ve read his novels that had not previously been published until…
Dreams. One of those mysterious things that happens to all of us including our pets. When my pup dreams, she does low, little yelps and wiggles her legs as if running somewhere, probably to Kansas. Our cat rarely dreams, but when he does he wiggles his paws and gives out low growls, probably imagining he…
Helen Millen Stone, age 93, passed away Sunday, Dec.2, 2018, at Jasper Memorial Hospital. Helen Stone was born in Monticello, to the late Reuben Lee Millen and Martha Mabel Edwards Millen. She attended GSCW, now known as Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville. She was married to John Marion Stone for 63 years, until…
Daniel (Danny) Craig Brooks, age 68, of Jackson, passed away Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018 at Pine Pointe Hospice in Macon. Danny was born Thursday, April 6, 1950, in Griffin, the son of the late Louie Arthur Brooks and the late Mary Josephine Craig Brooks. He was very proud of his 1963 Corvette and loved going…
Ruth Maynard Funderburke, age 80, passed away Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018, at Piedmont Newton Hospital. Ruth Funderburke was born in Jones County to the late John Wesley Maynard and Susie Coulter Maynard. She was a lifelong resident of Jasper County. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her sister, Mary Maynard…
Monticello Drugs, with David K. Leach, Pharm. D. at the helm, will celebrate a Grand Opening at its new location, 679 West Washington Street, next Thursday, Dec. 13. Approaching 50 years in business, Monticello Drugs started in 1972 when Pharmacist Don Parrott returned to his hometown and bought Smith Drugs. At that time, the proprietor…