The varsity Lady Hurricanes defeated region opponent Crawford County 63-38 Tuesday evening.Madison Abbott led the team with 25 points, Jameecia Thurman added 11, Alyssa Wilson had 9, and Mackenzie Tripp had 8.The Canes fell 80-69 to the region foe. C.J. Adams, named Player of the Game, had 22 points.The varsity squads will travel to Macon…
Nellie Grace Noble Gotel, age 67, of Monticello, passed away Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016, at her residence. Nellie Gotel was born January 31, 1948, in Butts County, Ga. to the late Charlie, Sr. and Lillie Maude Sims Noble. She was a graduate of Henderson High School in Jackson. She married Raymond Gotel on December 27,…
The Jasper County Commissioners voted unanimously at a called meeting Friday to approve a resolution pledging taxes to the Joint Development Authority. The action could reduce the amount of taxes paid by Baxalta (formerly Baxter) to the county for the next four years. The county will not pay any money out, it will just reduce…
W.F. SCHILLING William F. “Bill” Schilling announced that he will be running for the District 4 seat on the Jasper County Board of Education in the upcoming election. “I believe the quality of our education is essential to the quality of our lives,” he said, “and I would like to work for our community to…
The city of Monticello did not register any precipitation over the last week, as seen in the table on page 4, but we all know we had plenty of rain Thursday and Friday, with the possibility of something else. Sure enough, Friday night, the snow fell. Although it only provided a dusting in most places,…
Ginger Ann Atchison Born, age 36, of Hillsboro, passed away on Friday, Jan. 15, 2016, at her residence. Ginger Born was born in Dallas, Texas to Preston Atchison and Sherry Lea Nabors Atchison. She grew up in Waxahachie, Texas where she graduated high school. After high school, she attended Texas A&M University where she earned…
The Jasper County Board of Education members voted to submit their application for Jasper County Schools to begin the formal process with the state of Georgia to become a Charter System. The board began talking about the various options well over a year ago when the state lawmakers gave school districts three management framework options…
Deputies with the Jasper County Sheriff’;s Office investigated only one report of theft in the last week, and that was an alleged theft from a vehicle parked on the Square Monday. It was also a relatively light week for arrests, as compared to the last couple, anyway. Persons arrested in the last week, and their…
Before I was a foster parent, I had some mixed views about the foster care system. To say that I was unaware and ignorant of what foster care was about is quite the understatement. I had two views of foster care. First, foster children were trouble makers, and it was their fault they were in…
Charles Frederick Willis received a sentence of five years in confinement for failing to register as a sex offender during the January 12 session of Jasper Superior Court presided over by Judge E. Trenton Brown, III. Mr. Willis, who was under previous probation terms, failed to add his name to the Jasper County registry list…