Election year in Jasper County would not be very interesting, if not for region and statewide races.Three school board seats were up for election this year, and all three incumbents qualified last week, and no one qualified to run against them so Bobby Norris, District 1; Shannon Barton, District 3, and Lewis Rice, District 5,…
Following the March 7 Monticello-Jasper County Chamber of Commerce Forward Jasper First Friday meeting, Dr. Marj Davis, Mercer University School of Engineering, conducted a strategic planning workshop at the Monticello Government Complex. This was the second in a series of workshops designed to assist with a community wide strategic planning initiative for Jasper County. Dr.…
The Jasper County Sheriff’s Office (JCSO) reported the recent arrest of Marvin Collier Stinson, 46, of Shady Dale, and charged him with theft by taking and probation violation. The theft by taking charge came as a result of Mr. Stinson being identified as the person who entered Susie Q’s convenience store on Hwy 11 North…
Katie Odegaard is Piedmont Academy’s STAR student, and she chose Daniel Funt as her STAR teacher. Samantha Talley is Jasper County High School’s STAR student, and she has chosen Brian Patrick as her STAR teacher. They will all be honored by the Monticello Kiwanis Club at a luncheon next Monday, March 17, at Deptula’s Restaurant.…
This shot of West Washington Street, or Hwys. 16 and 212 just west of the Dairy Queen shows some of the work taking place in widening the road. The project began some time ago, first with the acquisition of land from property owners along the road. In the last week or two, several utility poles…
There’s a funny thing about life, and getting older that I’ve realized more so in the last week than ever…and that is that we tend to overlook things and places that are right under our noses. As we get older, and we all do–life tends to simply pass us by. Many of us get into…
Jerry Dean Yancey, 73, of Monticello, passed away Thursday, February 27, 2014, at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta. Mr. Yancey was born and raised in Atlanta, Ga. His parents were the late George Plummer Yancey and Minnie Louise Leftwich Yancey. He was a graduate of the University of Georgia Pharmacy School. Before retirement, Mr. Yancey was…
Weyman Mercer, native resident of Jasper County and Monticello, died Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014 at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta. He was born December 13, 1931, to the late Grover Cleveland Mercer and Maude Steadham Mercer. Mr. Mercer is survived by his wife, Ann Tyler Mercer, to whom he was married for 51 years. After graduating…
Knowing the struggle my brain has to recall information stored away, I occasionally go back and read my column to keep myself from writing an article about the same thing again. In this ritual I noticed something, not about the column I write, but about the page where it appears. The editor must have a…
I’m fixing to say a prayer. Did you ever wonder what happens to a prayer when it gets to heaven? I mean how are they received and processed? Is there a committee of Angels whose sole assignment is to sort them out into numbered priorities and present them to the Almighty? How many did they…