Mary Ellen Porter Wilson went to be with her Savior on Thursday December 12, 2024, passing away peacefully at her home with family by her side. She was 95 years old.Mary Ellen was born April 2, 1929, in Cochran, Georgia to the late Julius Redding “Jule” Porter and Mae Helms Porter. She was the youngest…
Charles Eugene Forsythe of Monticello, known to his loved ones as “Chuck,” passed away on November 22, 2024, at the age of 86. Chuck was known for his love of his family, his dedication to his community, his determined respect for public justice, and his kind and tender heart. Despite his tough-as-nails exterior, crew cut,…
The December 3 criminal session of Jasper Superior Court was conducted in the Courthouse last week with the following sentences ordered. Justin Caleb Armour, sentenced to three years with the first day in Jasper County jail for possession of cocaine and driving under the influence. Counts of possession of a schedule IV controlled substance and…
Jasper County Magistrate Court conducted December criminal and civil trials last week, the last session under current Judge Tim Lam. Only one criminal case was ruled upon—State of Georgia versus Thomas Burrell for a bad check citation/deposit account fraud. A warrant is to be issued by Judge Danyale Hardwick. Four other cases were set for…
Lucas Sprayberry, a student at Jasper County High School, beat out several others with 12 right last week to win the football contest. Mr. Sprayberry and two others had 12 right with a 42 point tie-breaker, but Tracey Nelson picked Texas to win the tie-breaker game, therefore eliminating her from the win. Then it was…
Our annual letters to Santa section will be published next week, and we urge all businesses to seize the opportunity to publicly thank their customers and clients for keeping them in business for the past year. The schools have been contacted and have sent in their letters, and messages were left with known preschools and…
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! With just under two weeks to go until Christmas, it’s getting real. Shopping, Decorating, Scheduling, Cooking, Cleaning, Wrapping, and the always delightful concerts and other public events, and if you’re lucky, Christmas parties…the season is here. It’s no wonder people sometimes forget the real reason for the…
I heard about a physician who said, “Many of my patients have nothing wrong with them except their thoughts.” So I have a favorite prescription I write for some. But it is not a prescription that you can fill at a drugstore. The prescription I write is a verse from the Bible, ‘Romans 12:2’” Although…
The modern Christmas card industry began in 1915, when a small company in Kansas City that made postcards, founded by Joyce Hall, later joined by his brothers, Rollie and William, published its first holiday card. The Hall Brothers, a decade later became Hallmark, soon adapted a new format for their cards, four inches wide and…
You know, at first there’s that bum bum bum bum, then a little lower again there’s a bum bum bum bum, and then there’s a kind of a stringy trend upward, and then….. Reading a narrative description of Beethoven’s Fifth just isn’t the same as hearing the real thing. It’s like reading a narrative legal…