The Monticello City Council heard from two very pleased citizens regarding the repair of Rooks Lane in Monticello and its repairs. The two citizens had been before the council several months ago to stress the need of repair to their street. Although the city did not originally have Rooks Lane on its list of roads…
Deputies with the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office (JCSO) responded to several reports of theft in the last week, as well as two reports of I.D. fraud or theft. On Monday, a resident on Pitts Chapel Road reported guns and a weed eater taken from the home. A burglary was reported on Johnny Fears Road, but…
On August 31, 2017, Balamand University, located near Tripoli and Beirut, Lebanon, conferred a Master of Arts degree in Orthodox Theology on E.R. Lanier, a longtime resident of Monticello. The degree was awarded at a special convocation at the Antiochian House of Studies in Ligonier, Pa., by Metropolitan Joseph (Al-Zehlaoui), the Primate of the Antiochian…
Happy National Sewing Month all you sewest and seamstresses out there. President Ronald Reagan designated the month of September as National Sewing Month way back in 1982. This year’s motto is “Sew for the Beauty of It.” As a fellow seamstress (notice the two parts of this word, seam and stress), I want to celebrate…
I’m Fixin’ To present part 11 of Southern Justice: That first night Jackie spent with Rick wasn’t wasted on her part. It began with several cocktails before dinner and two bottles of wine during, most of which was plied onto Rick. The killer dinner began with a lot of lumpy blue cheese dressing on the…
Earlier this year in the spring, before the grass had filled in but after the weeds had sprung up, I had to mow. The difficulty of mowing during that time of the year is that I end up mowing as much dirt as I do grass/weeds. Plus, it had not rained for several days so…
As regular readers of The Monticello News know, I don’t use this space very often. I’ve been told I should write a weekly column, but alas, I have never disciplined myself to do so. But after weathering Irma, going to a house fire last week, and listening to the fire calls for the last week,…
It was around 4:30 on Monday afternoon of September 11 when the thing I had been dreading became reality: the power at my house went out. With the wind howling for most of the afternoon I hoped against hope that it would somehow stay on but after several close calls, I was officially without power.…
As much as our political landscape continues to change year after year, the fact that Georgia agriculture is the largest economic producer in the state has remained a constant in state history. Agriculture is Georgia’s largest industry and contributes over $70 billion annually to our state economy. Currently, one in seven Georgians work in agriculture,…
Parents, guardians, and community stakeholders are invited to attend the Title 1 Annual Meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 26 at Jasper County Primary School at 6:30 p.m. All schools in the district are Title 1 schools and thus receive benefits from this federal program. This year JCCS is hosting a district wide meeting. That means that…