Several Monticello Hurricane baseball players earned special awards at the annual baseball banquet held last week at Jasper County High School.Pitcher/right fielder Chad Cain earned the academic award which is given to the player with the highest academic grade point average. This year’s recipient was also the valedictorian and STAR Student for the Class of…
Last Thursday, May 19, at approximately 9:30 p.m. the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office requested the GBI Milledgeville office to investigate a shooting incident in Monticello. Around 9 p.m. Jasper County Sheriff’s deputies responded to Benton Street, where initial information indicated that an intruder entered that residence and was shot by the occupant. At this time…
Baba Baldeh was sentenced to 20 years in confinement for guilty verdicts during one of two jury trials conducted last week in Jasper Superior Court. Mr. Baldeh was charged with two counts of armed robbery stemming from a December 2014 incident at A-1 Foods located on Forsyth Street in Monticello. John Dempsey also had a…
Jasper County voters will need to return to the polls on July 26 to determine who will be Jasper County’s next Chief Magistrate. Angie Steele received 45.85 percent of the vote Tuesday, but not enough to prevent a run-off. Tim Lam was second with 32.78 percent of the vote, and Bobby Jacobs was eliminated with…
More than 150 students received their high school diplomas last weekend in Jasper County with Jasper County High School and Shiloh Christian Academy holding graduation exercises Friday evening, and Piedmont Academy doing the same on Saturday morning. The students were highlighted in a special section in last week’s Monticello News. This week’s paper includes numerous…
Mr. Douglas McAuthur Hayslip, Sr., age 74 of Shady Dale, Ga., passed away on Monday, May 9, 2016 at Abbey Hospice. Mr. Hayslip was born in Cordele, Ga. on February 16, 1942. He is preceded in death by his parents, Charlie Reese Hayslip and Lela Mae Dogget Hayslip; son, Christopher Allen Hayslip. Mr. Hayslip was…
The Jasper County Commission continued work on the budget at a work session Monday evening. After reviewing work done by County Manager Mike Benton to cut some of the requests, commissioners agreed they would continue to work toward a budget that would result in a tax rate of 16 mills. Mr. Benton presented several scenarios,…
I’m Fixin’ To Present Part 37 of The Second Doublewide on the Right: After Reverend Ricky Lee Jones and Jimmy Ray Hurd had stacked the materials for the new roof behind the reverend’s church, he had paid Jimmy Ray off with hundred dollar bills—five of them. There was no receipt, and the reverend didn’t ask…
In our culture, some taboo topics of discussion remain uncomfortable to discuss when someone brings them up. The kind of topic that makes people fidget outwardly and squirm inwardly. The kind of topic that many in the circle of conversation are thinking: “I wished he had not brought that up.” A topic like death. Interestingly,…
Get out and enjoy our spring wildflowers that are lining the back roads of Jasper County. You’ll see Queen Anne’s lace, black-eyed susans, and goldenrods. With our recent blackberry winter weather, we are bound to have a bumper crop of blackberries. Our blackberry bushes have already bloomed and have some berries. So spend a few…