JANELL WILD (R) AT HAMILTON STATE BANK PRESENTS PRIZE TO CHARLES BRAMLETT The final week of The Monticello News football contest for 2014 wound up with a two-time this year winner, Turkey Holland.Mr. Holland correctly guessed the winner in 13 of the 15 games listed in last week’s Monticello News. He was the only player…
Nary a Christmas card has darkened our mailbox so far this year. Maybe the holidays have just snuck up on everyone. Our card holder awaits. Cards reflect the sender. The animal lovers always send cards with their favorite animal on it, a pug dog stuffed down in a Christmas stocking and to add insult to…
Monticello City Council members voted to give all full-time city employees $100 Christmas bonuses. The $2,916 was budgeted for this fiscal year and approved Tuesday. Mayor Bryan Standifer, Mayor Pro-tem Bobby Jacobs and Council members David Wease and Katherine Alexander were the only ones present at the Council’s last meeting of the year and they…
After winning just one game a season ago, the Piedmont Academy varsity boys basketball team has raced out to a 3-0 start following Saturday’s 58-55 road win against Bethlehem Christian Academy. In a back-and-forth contest Saturday in Bethlehem, the Cougars won on a buzzer-beating three-pointer by Mack Brady. Chandler Burrell finished with a game-high 22…
It was a good night to be a Hurricane basketball fan on Tuesday. Both varsity squads defeated Northeast Macon in their first region game of the season. The 40-33 victory was especially sweet for the Lady Canes who were winless going into the competition. Nothing like having the first win of the season also be…
Several probation revocations were handed down Tuesday during Jasper County Superior Court’s motion day session presided over by Judge E. Trenton Brown. Charles David Perry, was revoked three years to the state penal system for theft by taking in July 2014 and possession of methamphetamine and theft by receiving stolen property in November 2014. Charleston…
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas everywhere you go. Monticello and Jasper County are in the Christmas spirit, and it is evident by recent happenings around the county. Last week, Piedmont Academy held its elementary musical (top photo), and Santa Claus came to visit Shady Dale, arriving on the fire truck Saturday afternoon…
MONEY AND DRUGS CONFISCATED Jasper County Sheriff’s Office (JCSO) concluded a several week long narcotics investigation into the sale and distribution of cocaine in the city of Monticello with an arrest Monday, Dec. 9. The target of the investigation was Jerome Stokes, 42, of Monticello. The JCSO learned through investigation that Mr. Stokes was known…
TIANA GRIGGS An appreciation program and Key to the City presentation for Miss Georgia Tiana Griggs will be held this Saturday, Dec. 13, at 3 p.m. at St. James A.M.E. Church, 514 Funderburg Drive. The program is slated to last about an hour followed by refreshments and an autograph and photo session. Everyone is invited…
Harold Andrew Morgan, age 91, died Thursday, Nov. 27, 2014, at Abbey Hospice in Social Circle. Harold Morgan was born in Hillsboro to the late Andrew Greer Morgan and Cloda Tillman Morgan. During his youth, Harold attended Hillsboro Methodist Church. After marrying the late Marian Perry Morgan, he attended the Monticello Presbyterian Church. Harold served…