Free school supplies, free hot dogs, and free entertainment were all offered Saturday, and some 479 students registered and took advantage of the opportunity during the Back-to-School Rally.The rally ended at noon, and students and others were encouraged to go to the Clothes Closet at Monticello First United Methodist Church to be closer to completing…
State Champion Baseball Team and Coaches at Award Ceremony Piedmont Academy paid tribute to its 2014 state championship baseball team during a recent awards banquet. The Cougars won the Georgia Independent School Association (GISA) Class AA state title this spring, sweeping Trinity Christian School in the finals. Awards presented included: •Tyler Mills, Scholar Athlete •GISA…
Mrs. Annie Jean Whitening Barkley was born on August 27, 1946 to the parentage of Annie Pearl Ross Whitening and Eugene Whitening of Jasper County, Georgia. Both preceded her in death. Mrs. Barkley died July 19. “Ann” attended the Jasper County Training School where she graduated with honors. She worked for Bibb Manufactory where she…
Richard Dale “Rick” Raines, 61, of Jackson, passed away Tuesday, July 15, 2014 at Northside Hospital in Atlanta. Rick was born in Martinsburg, W.V. January 3, 1953, the son of the late Herman Lee Raines and Betty Lee Engelbright Raines who survives. Rick was retired Master Chief in the United States Navy with 26 years…
Funeral services for Carl “Diamond” Wallace Johnson, Sr. were held Thursday, July 17 at Springfield Baptist Church with the Rev. Jimmy Horton presiding. Interment was held at South View Cemetery. He died July 13. Mr. Johnson was born July 17, 1931 to the late Shane Johnson and Jessie Waller in Monticello. He worked in the…
David Perdue won the Republican nomination for Senator in Tuesday’s runoff election, beating Jack Kingston by a small margin, with Perdue getting 50.88 percent of the vote. Mr. Perdue won locally too, but by a larger margin. He got 61.37 percent of the vote and Kingston got 38.63 percent of the local vote. For U.S.…
A back-to-school rally and resource fair will be held this Saturday, July 26, from 9 a.m. to noon at Washington Park Elementary School, offering school supplies to anyone who comes, and introducing attendees to services that are offered by various agencies throughout the county. Entertainment will be provided, along with a bounce house for the…
I’m fixing to play dead (Part 8). I was feeling a lot better about Leon after he gave my money back and apologized for taking it in the first place, and I began to understand why he would go through the pockets of an unconscious person lying in a ditch beside the road smelling strongly…
Several years ago, I worked in Stockbridge. I love trains. Many lunches were spent by the railroad tracks eating my lunch and watching the trains pass by. I knew that before they got to me, they had passed over highway 83 south of Monticello, through Jackson, Jenkinsburg, and McDonough, before they got to where I…
Just about six months ago, we were not suffering from 105 percent humidity, the annual visit of the crunchy centipedes or daily downpours. Six months ago, we were all glued to the television reports of hundreds of people stuck in their cars on expressways, school children spending the night in their schools or on school…