A quartet of Piedmont Academy wrestlers posted wins during a home match last week.Trent Coots, Logan Conner, Nolan Cleary and Ian Boyd each earned wins during a meet which featured Gatewood, John Milledge, Windsor and Community Christian. Corbin Burrell and Tanner Coppock were also able to compete for the Mat Cougars.Piedmont is scheduled to compete…
Employees at the Bank of Monticello are proud to do their part to “fill the window” at the Monticello-Jasper County Chamber of Commerce with non-perishable food items for the Jasper County Community Food Bank. To help contribute to this campaign, employees are permitted to wear jeans on Wednesdays and Saturdays in exchange for a donation…
JOHN AND KELLY DEGARMO Drs. John and Kelly DeGarmo were named co-Citizens of the Year by the Monticello-Jasper County Chamber of Commerce last Thursday at the COC’s annual meeting at Charlie Elliott Wildlife Center. The announcement was made by 2014 Citizen of the Year Amy Scroggs. Mrs. Scroggs read the following summation of the nominations…
A celebration of life for Mr. Terry Jackson Williams will be held on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016 at 11 a.m. at St. James A.M.E. Church, 514 Funderburg Drive in Monticello. Public visitation will be Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016 from 9:a.m. until 8 p.m. Interment at Southview Cemetery. Terry was born on June 10, 1956 in…
Louis Witte Benton, Jr., 78, died peacefully in his sleep at home Monday, Jan. 11, 2016. He was born October 19, 1937 in Monticello, the only child of Kathryn Blackwell Benton and Louis Witte Benton, who both preceded him in death. He has been a Director of the Bank of Monticello for many years and…
Piedmont Academy’s varsity basketball teams began the second half of the 2015-2016 season Friday with road games against Class AAA John Milledge Academy. The Lady Cougars fell 45-21 while the varsity boys were defeated 55-19. In the girls contest, Amelia Dodson led the Lady Cougars with eight points while Matti Smith scored five and Madison…
The varsity Hurricanes hosted conference opponent Bleckley County Tuesday evening with the Lady Canes falling but the Canes posting a victory. The varsity girls fell 68-31 to the Royals while the varsity boys won 72-53. With Tuesday’s win the varsity Canes rebounded from a conference loss to Crawford last week with three consecutive wins including…
Piedmont Academy’s Middle School basketball teams ventured to Milledgeville last Friday to face John Milledge Academy. The Middle School boys earned a 37-34 win as Tate Marks scored a game-high 21 points. Marks scored nine points in the second quarter, two in the third and 10 in the fourth quarter. Six of the points scored…
I’m Fixin’ To present part 19 of The Second Doublewide on the Right: “The Honorable Judge Thurston J. Garfield, III, presiding.” That’s how it read on the top of the first page of the Ocmulgee County Superior Criminal Court Calendar. Even in his waning years on the bench, Judge Garfield never tired of seeing his…
I’m not much of a military strategist, but I have watched enough war movies to realize that an army works hard to protect the important things…capital city, supply lines, weapons and ammunition for example. In other words, good militaries won’t spend a lot of time, energy, and resources protecting unimportant things. I have played some…