Hattie McMurry beat out her parents, her grandparents, and her brother to win The Monticello News football contest this week, missing only on Jefferson’s loss to Mary Persons in the high school football playoffs. Other than that she was perfect, correctly guessing the winner of 14 of the 15 games listed in last week’s Monticello…
Robert Allen Pope was sentenced to spend 12 months in a long term substance abuse treatment facility on a negotiated plea to burglary in the first degree and burglary in the second degree during a busy criminal trial session that began last week in Jasper Superior Court under the jurisdiction of Judge Trenton Brown, III.…
The Monticello Community Band invites everyone to celebrate Christmas Traditions this Friday, Dec. 1, a concert featuring Christmas on the Town Square, Joy to the World, Auld Lang Syne and other holiday favorites. The concert starts at 7 p.m. in the Jasper County Courthouse main courtroom. “We are so excited about returning to the courthouse,…
Owen Brady of Monticello was hunting in Wheatley, Ark. last week when he killed this goose that was banded and collared in Barrow, Alaska. The goose traveled 3,407.75 miles! The goose was a Greater White-Fronted Goose/Speckled Belly. It is rare to kill a collared and banded goose or duck, and the guides in Arkansas were…
Bruce Cooper, 40, affectionately known as Beanie by family, DJ Fubu by friends, and DJ Bruce Wonder by the world, was born on January 30, 1977 in Milledgeville, to Rebecca (Harold) Norwood. He departed his earthly life on Monday, October 30, 2017 peacefully in the comfort of his home of Macon. On May 21, 2008…
Chad Louvoris Jeffrey is to serve 10 years in confinement after being found guilty last week during a jury trial (which was the sole jury trial) held in Jasper Superior Court. Judge Trenton Brown, III presided over a busy court calendar last week that began with trials on Monday. Mr. Jeffrey was on trial for…
The tie-breaker was the determining factor again in last week’s Monticello News football contest, with two players correctly guessing the winner of 14 games listed. Leslie Minter narrowly beat out Chandler Dunning and for her efforts she received a $25 prize from Marcus Proctor at EnergyWise Heating and Air, sponsor of the week. Mrs. Minter…
As either history or myth has reminded us, the very first Thanksgiving celebration was attended by the newly-arrived, immigrant Pilgrims and the local Native Americans, the Wampanoag tribe living in the area for around 10,000 years. These Mayflower pilgrims were considered armed and dangerous as they had fled England originally to protest King Henry the…
Thanksgiving is synonymous with family, food, and football! The air is crisp, the colors are gorgeous outside, and we all try and take inventory of all that we have been blessed with. For the fire department though, Thanksgiving is all synonymous with fire. With the surge of deep fried turkeys in the last decade, cooking…
Many of us will gather this week with family and take a break from our often hectic lives to observe Thanksgiving. It’s a favorite holiday of mine mainly because it doesn’t have such a hectic nature to it. Christmas is often filled with stress because we are trying to get so many things done from…