VETERANS GATHER AT SENIOR CENTER OFR SPECIAL BREAKFAST IN THEIR HONOR The Jasper County Senior Center hosted a Veteran’s Breakfast last Friday for the third consecutive year in an effort to honor our local veterans. This year, about two dozen veterans turned out for the occasion, along with several other guests. The only elected official…
It can sometimes be challenging to eat healthy when eating out. It is especially difficult in a small town to find nutritious alternatives on restaurant menus especially when Monticello, until recently, has had only a scarce selection of eateries for its residents. Lately, however, our quaint small town, seemingly years behind rural communities like Madison,…
It’s house cleaning time for many of us. Fall weather just gives one an ounce more energy to start the dreaded house cleaning. Tis the season. Is it the cool temperatures? Is it the fact that the holidays are coming? Is it that you don’t want your visiting friends and relatives to see how you…
The Presidential election has passed. It was laborious campaign that had more ebbs and flows than the tides in Coastal Georgia. The result of the campaign is that nothing has changed. We will continue to have divided government, with two parties in control of the Presidency and the Senate and another party in control of…
Shiloh Christian Academy basketball has tipped off the 2012-2013 season and games are in full swing with four girls teams and four boys teams serving students in fourth through twelfth grades. Last Tuesday Nov. 6, the junior varsity girls travelled to Hampton to take on Bible Baptist and fell by a final score of 31-21…
Playing for four years as Region AA Champions, Cougar seniors recognized Friday night included (left to right) Hunter Clark, Glade Tuggle, Nick Dimsdale, Andrew Wilzman, Coach Rhett Farmer, Peter Lawson, Josh Hempel, and Justin Autry. Piedmont is 5-0 in region championships and has two state AA Titles while these young men were playing. Great guys…
’CANE OFFENSE MOVES THE BALL AFTER HANDOFF The Monticello Hurricanes football team ended their season on a low note to rival Putnam County 49-7. The ’Canes began the night honoring the senior fall sports players and band members. Once the game began, the ’Cane offense did well moving the ball down the field. The offensive…
MILLS SMITH PASSES FOOTBALL TO HUNTER KNOX Piedmont Academy’s football team entered the 2012 season as a young squad that was forced to grow up in a hurry. The Cougars battled a brutal non-region schedule but would eventually win the Region 4-AA title. Piedmont’s postseason run ended, however, in the first round Friday night in…
Mrs. Golda Hamby Anderson, better known as “Dobbs” died October 30, 2012. She was the daughter of the late Homer and Bertha Underwood Hamby of Etowah. Mrs. Anderson was married to the late James N. Anderson, Sr. She worked for many years a with the Post Office in Newborn. She was a member of Shiloh…
Frank Carden Dumas of Hillsboro died Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, at the Coliseum Medical Center in Macon. Mr. Dumas was born in Hillsboro to the late Joseph Coleman Dumas and Mary Levi Goolsby Dumas. He lived in Macon for 20 years before returning to Hillsboro in 1974. Mr. Dumas served in the Army Air Corps…