Piedmont Academy’s cross country program brought home its first state championship overall win last Wednesday, competing at the GISA JV end-of-season meet.At the finish line, Mari Jablonski earned her third first-place win of the 2014 season and first state championship title.The annual culminating event, hosted this year by Trinity Christian School in Dublin, brought together…
It proved to be another tough week in The Monticello News football contest. Who would have guessed that Carolina and Cincinnati would end in a tie, making the most any player could get right 14. However, no one got 14 right, and only two players got 13 right. Baylor Edge had faith in the purple…
Kevin Arlie Ledford, 18, of Homer, died Friday, Oct. 10, in Jasper County as a result of an auto accident. Mr. Ledford was traveling south on Bethel Church Road in a 2002 Ford Ranger and failed to stop at the stop sign at Hwy. 212. Brantley Steger of Covington was traveling west on Hwy. 212,…
Jasper County was one of 10 entities to be awarded part of $200,000 in product development agreements by the Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD). Georgia Tourism and Georgia Council for the Arts (GCA), both divisions of the Georgia Department of Economic Development, partnered again this year in order to continue to maximize the Tourism…
The Taxpayers’ Watchdog Group (TWG) held a Town Hall meeting last Thursday at Thomas Persons Hall, hosted by Mary Patrick, with guest speaker Tax Commissioner Angela Walsh. Mrs. Walsh opened the meeting saying tax collections this year are going better than last year. She read a poem that lightly explained what her job is which…
Jasper County High School will present a public performance of its One Act Play, The Real Inspector Hound, on Tuesday, Oct. 21, at 6:30 p.m., in the JCHS auditorium. Tickets, available at the door, are $3/student and $5/adult. The school is located at 14477 Hwy. 11 north, about three miles from the Monticello Square. By…
Ila Farnell Pittard, 89, of Simpsonville, S.C., wife of W. Henry Pittard, went to be with the Lord on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. Born in Bainbridge, Ga., she was the daughter of the late Henry Grady Farnell and the late Eva Myrtle Ingram. Mrs. Pittard was a member of Simpsonville United Methodist Church. She worked…
I’m Fixing To Play Dead (Part 19). I was in a desperate state, with only a few dollars in my pocket, in a motel room which wasn’t registered in my name, with no means of transportation while Leon, the thieving old ex-con, was on the run with my suitcase containing 600,000 bucks in cash—the stash…
There’s no message from the Pastor’s Study this week. For the past two years, Danny Sorrells, pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church, and Lyle Allen, a lay person with an extensive theological have taken turns filling this space. Two weeks ago, Rev. Sorrells announced he would no longer be able to write for the paper. I…
How time flies when you’re having fun! Seems like only yesterday that Christopher Columbus sailed into New York City or was it Miami on his ships, the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria. As children we always celebrated Columbus as the great explorer who found the United States. Well, the story has changed. On October 12th,…