When a patient comes into the Emergency Room with any issues, the main goal for the Emergency Room staff is to assess what is the most important issue that the patient needs to have addressed first. If there are breathing issues or heart issues, those would take precedence over a splinter in the hand or…
Wish you were here. Today, I am in Rome, Italy some 5,000 miles from home. We arrived Tuesday and spent the day trying to stay awake, acclimate to the time zone which is five hours ahead of us, visiting the Pantheon, built some 2000 years ago and has the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome. Many…
My younger brother Jon celebrated another birthday earlier this week and while I don’t think he would mind, I will not say the number of years he has now been around. (For the record, it is four years less than yours truly.) My brother has accomplished a great deal during those years and has every…
It is hard to believe that we have 10 weeks down and two weeks to go, until we adjourn the 2017 legislative session! We had a busy week of committee hearings and policy debate as both the House and Senate passed bills now under consideration by Governor Deal. Initiatives such as healthcare and public safety…
We have successfully completed day 36 and are two weeks away from the last day of the legislative session, Sine Die. The Senate was busy last week with committee meetings running late into the evening to ensure that house bills that crossed over are properly vetted before they can be considered on the Senate floor.…
Deputies with the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office (JCSO) responded to a report of theft on Lakshore Drive last week, where jewelry was missing. They also responded to an incident at Ingles where a parked car was hit. In addition, numerous people were booked into the Jasper County Detention Center during the week ending Tuesday, March…
Drew Schilling playing the piano won the Class A competition in the Monticello Kiwanis Club Art and Talent Showcase held last Friday at Jasper County High School. For his efforts, Mr. Schilling will advance to the state show to be held in April to compete for up to $3,500 in scholarships and awards. Second place…
Joy Pauline Faulk Knight, age 90, of Covington, passed away Sunday, March 12, 2017, at Riverside Healthcare in Covington. Joy Knight was born in Houston, Texas, to the late David Caldwell Faulk and Mildred Elizabeth Stewart Faulk. Along with her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Fred Douglas Knight; grandchildren, Darrell Harper…
Billy Morris Faulkner was born in Carrollton, Ga., to the late Mary Morris and John Wesley Faulkner. He died on February 23, 2017 at the Georgia War Veterans’ Home in Milledgeville. He served in the United States Army as an Army para-trooper for two years and then served in the United States Air Force for…
I’m Fixin’ To present part 80 of The Second Doublewide on the Right: Jimmy Ray was feeling exhilarated with that big fat envelope stuffed with 15 thousand dollars lying on the seat next to him. But then his ominous sense of survival was revived and he knew he needed to secure the cash at once.…