The eggs are put away if they are plastic and thrown away if they are hard-boiled. (If the latter has not been done, you’ll know it in a few days.) The colorful, matching church clothes for Easter Sunday have been washed and added to the closet of choices to wear. The Easter baskets have been…
Louise, still on the phone with Mister Jenkins, the manager of the trailer park where Leon had lived, looked like a deer on a dark and lonely highway frozen directly in the headlights in the path of a rapidly approaching vehicle, all this after the old man had informed us that Red had Sissy’s address…
The Turtle Cove Woman’s Club is again offering a scholarship(s) to our community’s graduating seniors or continuing education students. The scholarship is funded by proceeds from various Woman’s Club events. The scholarship(s) is based on character, achievement and need. Scholarship recipients must be permanent residents of Turtle Cove and be enrolled or enrolling in an…
Through the yellow haze the sun broke through to reveal yet another inch thick mass of pine pollen covering our fair county. Dare not use a leaf blower to rid your porch or lawn furniture of the yellow stuff as it only blows back again in minutes. Our television weather people only add misery to…
Jasper County High School and Jasper County Virtual Academy will be hosting summer school credit recovery from May 26 to June 23, with testing on the 24 and 25, from 9 am to noon. During this time students may re-take any courses they may need in order to graduate. Students may sign up for credit…
Jasper County High School students Katie Alewine and Antonio Boykin received Honorable Mention at the 12th Annual Protege Competition and Exhibition, which features works by high school juniors and seniors from Central Georgia. The Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences honored students with a reception recently. In February, Jasper County High School artists submitted their…
WINNING PIEDMONT ACADEMY LITERARY GROUP Piedmont Academy’s literary and music team recently took top honors at the GISA AA State and the Region 4AA competitions which involve 14 events of writing, acting, speaking, singing and playing the piano. The region event was held on Friday, March 13, at Brewton Parker College, and the most recent…
HOUSE AT 585 JACKSON LAKE ROAD WHERE MEN WERE ELECTROCUTED Deputies responded to 585 Jackson Lake Road after receiving a call from a passerby last Friday, April 3. Upon arrival, deputies found that two individuals had been electrocuted. After investigating the scene, it was determined that the two men were working on the roof of…
Cammie Holmes McCook, beloved wife, mother, daughter, sister and friend, passed away on Easter Sunday. Cammie was a native of Monticello, where she attended Piedmont Academy. She graduated from Salem Academy in Winston-Salem, N.C. and received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Georgia where she was a proud member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.…
Roland Marshall Shackelford, Jr., age 66, of Monticello, died Friday, March 27, 2015, at his residence. Roland Shackelford was born in Birmingham, Ala., to the late Roland Marshall Shackelford, Sr. and Rena Faith Shackelford. He was a fire fighter and later, Captain for the Atlanta Fire Department and retired after 30 years. He moved to…