The Jasper County Commissioners voted 3-1 Monday to reverse its insurance practice with employees that was increased this year. At budget time, health insurance increased so dramatically that commissioners agreed to charge employees more to offset the county’s cost. Later, the commission voted to give the employees a raise.The raise was offset by the insurance…
A 911 service was held at Jasper County Fire Service Station 3 in Monticello Tuesday, some 17 years after the Twin Towers were demolished, and some 414 First Responders and countless civilians were killed. The bell was rung to signify each plane crashing, including Flight 11 into the north face of the North Tower of…
Deputies with the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office spent some of their holiday weekend chasing four-wheelers off public roads, and checking on children jumping off Waters Bridge. They also responded to two calls of entering an auto in the last week, and a theft by taking call on Hwy. 212 west. At that call, cash and…
8:46 a.m. – Battalion Chief Joseph Pfeiffer witnesses the first plane, Flight 11, slamming into the North Tower. He immediately dispatches a second alarm and a third alarm while enroute. A typical second alarm to a high-rise building deploys 19 pieces of apparatus and 11 chiefs. That is in addition to the original alarm which…
Judge Amanda Petty presided over the criminal trial calendar in Jasper Superior Court last month. The following sentences were handed down: Tavares Jackson was sentenced to 15 years with two years to serve in confinement for two counts of sale of cocaine and possession of a firearm by convicted felon. Seventeen other counts were nolle…
Miriam Nell Jones Orr Chamberlain was born November 8, 1921, at her family home in Newborn. At 96 years of age, she passed away peacefully in her parent’s home in Newborn on September 3, 2018. Miriam graduated from Newborn High School in 1938 and then attended Georgia State College for Women, graduating in 1942. She…
A celebration of life for Mrs. Katherine Dearro “Kat” Jefferson is on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018 at 11 a.m. at Shiloh Baptist Church, 326 Martin Lane in Shady Dale. Public visitation on Friday Sept. 7 from 9 a.m. until 8 p.m. Rev. Kerwin Scott, Pastor/Eulogist. Burial at Midway Independent Church Cemetery. Smith and Sons Funeral…
A celebration of life for Jimmy Lee Benton is on Friday, Sept. 7, 2018 at 11 a.m. at New Bethel Grove Baptist Church, 501 Bethel Grove Church Road in Monticello.Rev. Lucius Solomon, pastor; Rev. Earl Favors will deliver the eulogy. Public viewing on Thursday, Sept. 6 from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. (Wake: 6-7 p.m.)…
Funeral services for John Thomas Rogers were conducted Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018 in Milledgeville. Interment followed in Baldwin Memorial Gardens. He died August 18, 2018 at his home. Mr. Rogers, 79, was a native of Monticello and had made his home in Baldwin County for most of his life. He was retired from the U.S.…
Rev. Thomas Wilson Morton, 76, of Warner Robins, passed away on September 3, 2018. The family will have a time of visitation on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018 at 3 p.m. with a memorial service immediately following at 4 p.m. at FairHaven Funeral Home, 4989 Mount Pleasant Church Rd, Macon. A complete obituary may be found…