Norma Mattison displays a quilt she made last year to benefit Seuss on the Loose, a childhood literacy event set for Saturday, March 5 this year. Ms. Mattison makes a quilt each year to be raffled off as part of the fund raiser for the event. Seuss on the Loose benefits the Ferst Foundation which…
AUSTIN NORWOOD, BRIANNA NICHOLSON, ANEAH MOORE Science Fair participants (left to right) Austin Norwood, Brianna Nicholson, and Aneah Moore were awarded top honor at the Regional Science and Engineering Fair held at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville. The students from Jasper County High School competed against teams from Baldwin, Bibb, Hancock, Jones, Monroe,…
ERIN LYNCH Erin Lynch has announced her intent to seek re-election to the District 2 Board of Education seat. She has served in this capacity since 2013. Before serving on the Board of Education, Mrs. Lynch volunteered in the Jasper County School System in various capacities since 2005 when her first child entered the primary…
Members of the Jasper County School Board met in a called meeting Tuesday and voted to accept the resignation of Jasper County High School teacher Lykee Davis effective May 24, 2016. Dr. Newton made the recommendation to accept the resignation after an executive session for personnel was held. That was the only action taken.
The Piedmont Academy varsity baseball team will continue to play with a bullseye on its back in 2016. That’s the nature of the beast when you have won back-to-back state championships as the Diamond Cougars accomplished in 2014 and 2015. A new season is set to begin Monday for Piedmont against Bethlehem Christian Academy at…
A Celebration of Life for Mrs. Sylvia Marks is scheduled on Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016 at 11 a.m. at Springfield Missionary Baptist Church, 837 Hillsboro Street, Monticello. Rev. Jimmy Horton, pastor will deliver the eulogy. Burial at Campbell Crossroad Cemetery. Repast at Springfield Baptist Church Fellowship Center. Mrs. Marks was born September 3, 1937, and…
A Celebration of Life for Mr. George David Mohorne “Poot” was held on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016 at Springfield Missionary Baptist Church, 837 Hillsboro Street in Monticello. Rev. Jimmy Horton, pastor, delivered the eulogy. Interment was at South View Cemetery. Repast was at Besley Event Center on Forsyth Street. George Mohorne was born February 11,…
Garry William Allen, age 67, of Monticello, passed away Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016, at Jasper Memorial Hospital. Garry Allen was born in Monroe, Ga. to the late Charles William Allen and Eddie Ruth Harp Allen. He was a lifelong resident of Jasper County. Along with his parents, he was preceded in death by his sisters…
Last Wednesday, Feb. 17, at approximately 4 p.m., deputies responded to the Jasper County High School tennis courts. The deputies found that there was a group of school aged individuals who were at the tennis courts for the purpose of fighting another student, according to an announcement from the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office (JCSO). The…
When you are reading the Bible, do you ever ask: “God, did you really mean that?” Some things in Scripture seem too far-fetched to believe that God actually meant what He said. But, in so many of these cases, if we take a closer look at the verse, the surrounding verses, and the totality of…