KNOX, PARTENZA, BRITTAIN, WILLIAMS, TYLER, BEGGS (L-R) Piedmont Academy’s varsity baseball program was recognized during a ceremony Monday as the players and coaches looked back on another state playoff season.Zach Beggs was named the team’s Most Valuable Player and was also the program’s Scholar Athlete. Beggs was also recently named All-State for GISA Class AA.Mac…
Louise Hooper Aiken, will celebrate her 100th birthday, next Monday, June 3. While most folks look ahead to retirement as a time to relax, take things a bit slower, and enjoy a more laid-back life style, those were not the plans of “Miss Louise,” as so many call her. She knew all along that after…
Some 17 Jasper County volunteer firefighters recently completed a Emergency Medical responder course. The 52-hour course was taught by Paramedic EMS Inst. 1, Christopher Finch, lead instructor; EMT-1 EMS Inst. 1 Jan Fowler, assistant instructor, and Fire Chief Jarret Slocumb, EMT-1 Keith Haddock, Paramedic Dori Strock and EMT-1 Charles Cooper, all as assistant staff. Jasper…
Mrs. Pauline Cunnard Brown, 84, of Hampton, died May 23, 2013. Mrs. Brown was born in Jasper County. Mrs. Brown was a dedicated member of Calvary Assembly of God. She was very strong in her faith and enjoyed doing for others. Mrs. Brown always cut her own grass and let everyone know it was relaxing…
Alma Murphy Dunagan, 95, of Grove Hill, AL, died May 20, 2013 at Camden Nursing Facility in Camden, AL. Mrs. Dunagan was born May 2, 1918 in Coffeeville, AL. She was a quality inspector at Vanity Fair. She was a member of the Center Point Baptist Church. Survivors include four sons, Ned Dunagan of Center…
Lois Elaine Fortner Holloway, 58, of Monticello died Monday, May 27, 2013, at Pine Pointe Hospice in Macon. Mrs. Holloway was born in Savannah, to the late Herbert Fortner and Annie Dorothy Rigdon Fortner. She attended Harvest Baptist Church. Mrs. Holloway was a talented cook, seamstress, and decorator, and she had a great sense of…
United Methodist ministers are itinerant clergy. This means that we are not “hired” by the churches we serve. Rather, we are appointed to serve a congregation by our Bishop. Each year pastors are subject to be assigned to a new church. I have had the distinct honor to serve the First United Methodist Church of…
I’m fixing to upgrade my cell phone. Well, maybe. I recently took a trip with my four children and two of my grandchildren and I was looking forward to conversation around the diner table that evening, but as soon as everyone was seated out came the smart phones and they all began poking at…
Well, girls, according to some unwritten Southern Belle manual, after Memorial Day we are now allowed to wear white shoes and sandals. Risk-takers started wearing white shoes on and after Easter, but all of us SB’s know only girls 10 years and younger can wear white shoes on Easter Sunday. And men and apprentices can…
I think we have all been there—the weekend turns into a steady stream of unscheduled celebrations and the excessive consumption of heavy foods and caloric beverages. It is debauchery in the worst way. You are certain, although impossible, you have put on 10 unwanted pounds that all find themselves nesting comfortably in the one place…