DRUGS, MONEY ARE CONFISCATED; PERSONS ARE ARRESTED On Tuesday, Jan. 5, the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office (JCSO) conducted a search of a residence on Hwy 212 West. The location was occupied by Shena Kaye Sego, 31, of that location, Louie Daly, 33, of East Point, and two young children. Both adults were arrested for possession…
Mr. Albert “Tom” Sanders of Shady Dale passed away peacefully on Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015, at Riverside Nursing Home in Covington. A homegoing celebration will be held this Sunday, Jan. 3, 2016, at 2 p.m. from Mt. Gilead Baptist Church in Eatonton. Minister Antonio McGuire will officiate, with interment in church cemetery Visitation will take…
Don Miller, Jr., 57, died on Sunday, Dec. 27, 2015. Don was born April 17, 1958 in Miami Fla. and was the son of the late Don Manuel Miller, Sr. and the late June Rochelle Chandler Miller. Don was a member of the Pipe Fitters Union of Miami working in the HVAC Industry. Upon retiring,…
A celebration of life for Curtis Nash, Jr.., who died December 22, 2015, was held Monday, Dec. 28, at Springfield Missionary Baptist Church in Newborn. Pastor Moses Little officiated. Mr. Nash was born August 28, 1955 in Morgan County to the late Curtis Nash Sr. and Lorene Nash. He received his education in the Newton…
Marvin Jordan McMichael, age 85, of Eatonton, passed away on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015, at his residence. Marvin McMichael was a lifelong resident of Jasper County. His parents were the late Henry Hulon McMichael and Lula Mae Patrick McMichael. He was an Elder of Smithboro Baptist Church. Marvin McMichael enjoyed woodworking and collecting and trading…
Frances LaRuth Gordon Tillman, age 82, of Hillsboro, passed away on Monday, Dec. 28, 2015, at the Coliseum Medical Center in Macon. LaRuth Tillman was born in Round Oak, to the late William Oscar Gordon, Jr. and Laura Frances Rowland Gordon. She lived in Round Oak during her childhood; and later, moved with the family…
Jasper County emergency services remain on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, year round. The 911 center fields each call, and dispatches accordingly. So this wrap-up of calls for the sheriff’s office, emergency medical service (EMS), and fire services was generated by 911, whose operators fielded each of the calls resulting in…
It was a relatively quiet Christmas week with Jasper County deputies only called to two incidences of theft in the last week. In the first one, a boat was taken from an address in the south part of the county. Then, a burglary of unspecified description was reported on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in…
Do you remember the Y2K scare? For those who are too young to remember, Y2K was the possibility that the world as we knew it was going to end because computers that could handle multi-million computations a second could not figure out how to go from the year 1999 to 2000. I don’t know why…
Celebrating the New Year is all about shedding the past and starting afresh. The more years we have behind us, the more we compare. The good ole days as they are known are completely different for a 30 year old and a 60 year old. That old baggage can get real heavy. Baseball Hall of…