LYNNE TANNER (L), KASEY HALL Kasey Hall thinks a lot of The Monticello News football contest. She plays every week, and has won the grand prize in the past.This week she knew she made the honor roll, and her husband didn’t, but until News staffers called she did not know she was one of seven…
Jasper Superior Court Judge Hugh Wingfield conducted a special hearing for two cases last Thursday. The first case involved Melissa Strozier’s submission of a motion to withdraw her negotiated guilty plea to theft by taking from the Jasper Care Corps for which she was sentenced 90 days in a state detention center, restitution of $15,055,…
When the University of Georgia’s Redcoat Marching Band took the field at the Georgia Dome on Saturday, two Jasper County natives were among their ranks. 2016 Jasper County High School graduates Clay Evans and Anna Parker donned their Redcoat Band uniforms and marched with the legendary band for the first time. Mr. Evans and Miss…
James Luke “J. L.” Lane, III, of Eatonton, formerly of Monticello, passed away on Tuesday, August 30, 2016, at Oconee Regional Medical Center in Milledgeville. J. L. Lane was born in Monticello to the late James Luke Lane, Jr. and Emmie Thompson Lane. He graduated from Monticello High School in 1954; and lived in Monticello…
Funeral services for Mrs. Misseline “Meslean” Walker Gardner, who died August 22, 2016, were held August 25, 2016 at New Bethel Grove Baptist Church. Pastor Lucious Solomon officiated; burial was in the church cemetery. Pallbearers were Kenneth Gardner, Anthony Simpson, Tommie Clay, Gregory Gardner, Ryan Stone, and Rico Harris. Mrs. Gardner was born March 29,…
Jasper County deputies had another relatively quiet week, with only two thefts reported, along with the fraudulent use of a bank card. On Monday, a canoe was reported stolen from an address on Monticello Street, and last Saturday, a Honda Civic was reported missing. It was subsequently recovered, and an arrest was made. Persons arrested…
Sentenced two weeks ago on a negotiated plea deal, Melissa Strozier will be back in Jasper Superior Court Thursday morning, Sept. 1, for a special hearing with Judge Hugh Wingfield. In court papers filed with the local Superior Court just days following an abandoned jury trial and plea deal with the District Attorney’s office, Mrs.…
Drs. John and Kelly DeGarmo will appear on Good Morning America sometime in the next few days. The producers could not give them a firm date in time for this edition of The Monticello News, but expect it to be today, Sept. 1, Friday, Sept. 2, or Monday, Sept. 5. A California producer from the…
My pastor recently talked about nones. I’ve heard about nuns, but not nones. Many explanations say that nones are folks who have nothing to do with organized religion, intentionally or unintentionally. Sometimes folks simply get busy, as we know we can, and church ends up at the end of their to-do lists. Others are nones…
Whoever said that the official end to summer is Labor Day didn’t live in the South. Someone forgot to tell the weatherman who, like a never-ending recording, says to expect highs in the 90’s every day. Just walk out of any air-conditioned building into the oven outside and you’ll know immediately summer is still with…