I’m Fixing To Play Dead (Part 40)It was still dark when I woke up in that weedy ditch behind the deserted service station on Highway 80, a few miles west of Montgomery, where Louise had deserted me. But over on the east horizon I could detect the glow of the eminent rise of the sun,…
“…if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed,’ and begins to beat his fellow servants… the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will punish him and put him with the hypocrites;” I cross the…
Spring forward, daylight savings time begins this coming Sunday morning at 2 a.m. Why? The big question, do we need DST? You’ve heard the pro reasons, suppose to save on fuel, more daylight during the summer months. Here’s the 411, it takes most of us weeks to get our biological clocks back on track and…
Greetings to my friends in District 129! We have completed 23 of 40 legislative days. Hard to believe that we are over half way finished with the 2015 session! Now that we are nearing Crossover Day (day 30), the tempo has picked up for everyone. So far the House of Representatives has passed 42 pieces…
Piedmont Academy’s B-Team baseball squad fell 10-0 to Loganville Christian Academy last Saturday. The Cougars fell in an early hole giving up several unearned runs in the first inning. “It was just great to get out on the field,” coach Daniel Funt said. “The weather has been terrible. We have several players who had just…
The Monticello Hurricane Golf team was slated to swing into action for the 2015 season Tuesday afternoon but light rains prevented that from occurring. The team is led by returning coach Matt Tumlin. The boys’ team includes freshmen Clayton Baker, Noah Faubli, Brock Lummus, Carter Pitts, Cole Usry, Joseph Wilkerson, sophmores Hunter Candler, Zach Mooney,…
The curtain fell on the 2014-2015 basketball season for the Piedmont Academy varsity teams in the opening round of the GISA Class AA state tournament. The boys were defeated 77-54 to Furtah Prep in a game played last Thursday at David Emanuel. Chandler Burrell the team in scoring, as he has done throughout the season,…
A celebration of life for Mary J. Thomas, who died February 22, 2015 was held Friday, Feb. 27, at New Bethel Grove Baptist Church in Monticello. Rev. Lucious Solomon officiated; burial was in the church cemetery. Mary D. Jones Thomas was born in Monticello on September 28, 1928 to the late Jessie and Emma Lou…
A celebration of life for Johnny E. McDowell will be held Saturday, March 7, 2015 at noon at St. James A.M.E. Church, 514 Funderburg Drive in Monticello. Donna Marie Calix, Pastor and Rev. Mack DeVon Knight will deliver the eulogy. Burial will be at South View Cemetery and repast at St. James A.M.E. Church Fellowship…
The Cat in the Hat has been all over Monticello this week, visiting in schools, businesses, on the street, in the library, at the Retreat, the Visitors’ Center, Dairy Queen, Ingles, you name it! Above, he is in the window at the Visitors’ Center promoting Seuss on the Loose this Saturday, March 7, from 10…