The Shiloh Christian Acadmey (SCA) Knights varsity and junior varsity boys basketball teams has begun their season playing a tough early season schedule in preparation for region play.Both teams traveled to face the Covington Academy Bulldogs in early November. The junior Knights were well balanced keeping the Bulldogs on their heels for the first three…
Piedmont Academy’s wrestling team has its sights set on the 2016-2017 season. This year’s team has 10 wrestlers, who will begin the new season Thursday, Dec. 8, at Windsor Academy in Macon. The Mat Cougars will then take part in a tournament hosted by Westfield in Perry on Saturday, Dec. 10, before hosting their first…
Piedmont Academy’s varsity basketball teams returned to action Tuesday night on the road against LaGrange Academy. The Lady Cougars fell 42-40 in a close game, which went into overtime. The teams were tied at 34 at the end of regulation. Gracie Hunt led Piedmont with 12 points while Haley Ann Frank added nine points and…
WES CROWE (L), ZACH NORRIS Ga. Tech’s defeat of Georgia this weekend made some Tech fans very happy…especially this week’s prize sponsor, Wes Crowe of Covington Ford, and this week’s winner, Zach Norris. Both are diehard Tech fans, and Mr. Crowe’s business sponsors this game every year, but he doesn’t always get bragging rights. Both…
The city of Monticello lit its Christmas tree Saturday culminating a day designed to “Shop Small” in Monticello. The Saturday after Thanksgiving for several years now has been promoted as Shop Small Saturday. Stores in Monticello and Jasper County took advantage of the day, offering special sales to customers, and encouraging Jasperites to stay home…
PETER AND CHERYL VISIT HISTORIC MOTOWN IN DETROIT My name is Peter Card. I am currently teaching and living in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This is the ninth correspondence to share my adventures living abroad. I am truly amazed at where life has taken me. I hope by sharing…
Faced with worsening drought conditions in about three-fourths of the state, along with water supply concerns in some areas, the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) has declared it will raise the state’s drought response to Level 2 in 52 counties and impose a Level 1 Drought Response in an additional 58 counties. “Today’s declaration is…
Deputies investigated a burglary at Jackson Lake Storage in which a storage unit was damaged. They also investigated a case of identification fraud for a resident in Newborn. In addition, deputies were called to a report of shoplifting at Circle K, and the suspect was apprehended. Those arrested in the last week, and their charges,…
Charles Anderson Carter was born on May 7, 1941 to the parentage of the late Charlie Howard and Rosebud Thurmond Carter. He was a loving husband to the late Erma Carter who passed away on November 14, 1998 and was also preceded in death by a daughter, Connie Gude Epps, brothers, Ray Carter and Raymond…
Mary Louise Gude was born on June 24, 1956 to the parentage of Mamie Bell Williams and the late Sammie Lee Williams. She died November 17, 2016. Born in Madison, Ga., she later moved to Monticello, where she married James Gude. To that union, one child was born. She later moved to Hillsboro. Mary was…