The Monticello Kiwanis Club Monday presented checks to the organizations that it supports throughout the year. The Kiwanis Club is a service organization dedicated to the children of our community and the children of the world. Locally, the club supports many children’s activities. Those receiving checks, and the who they represent included (left to right)…
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 seventh correspondence to share my adventures living abroad. I am truly amazed at where life has taken me. I hope by sharing my experiences it encourages you to pursue your…
Wayne Edward Wood, age 66, of Monticello, died Thursday June 2, at the Charlie Norwood Veterans Medical Center in Augusta, Georgia. Wayne was born in Albion, Michigan, September 4, 1949 to Walter Harold Wood and Maxine Buskirk Wood Winchell. He is a graduate of Homer High School in Homer, Michigan, and attended Kellogg Community College…
Jerry Glen Crow, age 80, of Monticello, passed away Wednesday, June 1, 2016, at his residence. Jerry Crow was born and raised in Dalton, Ga., to the late Jerry Cleveland Crow and Elizabeth Randolph Crow. He moved to East Atlanta in 1954; and later, to Lithonia; where he owned and operated C&C Truck Equipment Company…
Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit Court Judge Brenda Trammell presided over the Jasper Superior Court motion day calendar May 24. Patricia Ann Mize was sentenced to six years with the first 90-120 days to be served in the state probation detention center and the balance on probation for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and crossing…
No taxpayers from the City of Monticello, with the exception of this reporter were present at Monday’s called meeting and public hearing of the FY17 budget. Council members had a regular meeting beginning at 6 p.m. and immediately went into executive session to discuss land acquisition with David Dyer, Director of the Development Authority of…
Like most prospective fathers, I was beyond excited when my wife first told me she was pregnant. I had dreams of being a loving and playful father to my first child, and prayed each night over my wife’s pregnant body for a healthy child. When this first daughter of ours died at birth from Anencephaly,…
I’m Fixin’ To Present Part 40 of The Second Doublewide on the Right: Judge Thurston J. Garfield, III, turned the class action law suit by the property owners’s association versus Rawlston Developments over and over in his mind during the remainder of his drive home, but no matter how he spun it, the evidence presented…
Being a sewist, sewer, seamstress myself, I cherish the thought that in the very beginning of what would become the United States of America a person with that talent of stitching cloth together was an important part of history. Of course, almost everyone of us has studied or read of Betsy Ross, the Philadelphian seamstress…
Jasper County Primary School is excited to announce a Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (S.T.E.A.M.) camp lottery for students this summer. The camp will be offered for one week beginning Monday, July 11 through Friday, July 15 beginning each day at 8:30 a.m. and concluding at 12:30 p.m. This camp does not offer transportation.…