JULIUS MACHETT (24) SCORES CANE LONE TOUCHDOWN The Monticello Junior Varsity Hurricanes lost 41-8 to Pike County recently. “The score doesn’t really give an accurate description of how the boys played. We kicked off to open the game and held them to just three plays and then forced them to punt. We drove the ball…
The ’Canes held their own for a time versus undefeated Northeast Macon last Friday night and it was 0-0 at halftime, but they had to keep their defense on the field too long, and eventually fell 24-0 to the first-place team in Region 4-AA. The loss gave the ’Canes a 1-3 record overall and a…
D. GLAWSON (12) CATCHES FLY; JACKSON, STUDDARD READY The Lady Canes won in their third game against Crawford County in the third game of their series sending them to face Bleckley County today, Oct. 4 in Cochran. This win was the tiebreaker to see which team moved onto the final. The Lady ’Canes won the…
GAVEN EDGE (26) RUNS THE BALL FOR THE COUGARS The tough non-region schedule for the Piedmont Academy team continued last Friday with a home matchup with Class AAA Trinity (Sharpsburg). While the Cougars improved in some areas and had some strong individual performances, Trinity took a 37-19 victory. Piedmont is now 1-5 overall and will…
James “Bill” Tate, 83, a resident of Mountain Home, Ark., formerly of Monticello died last Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012, at his residence. He was born August 14, 1929, in Warren, Ark. to the late James Orlan Tate and Carrie Kline. Mr. Tate was a veteran of the United States Air Force serving during the Korean…
Laura Elizabeth “Beth” Nichols Wild, 96, of Jasper County, died last Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012 in Rossville, where she lived for the past three years with her daughter, Sandra Wild. Mrs. Wild was born December 21, 1915, to the late Fred and Ella Daniels Nichols in Helen. The family later moved to Lawrenceville, where she…
Emmanuel Togba was indicted on the charges of rape, kidnapping and aggravated sodomy in February, after being charged in December, 2011. He pled not guilty to the charges in March, and has been awaiting trial in the Jasper County Jail (JCJ) under a $100,000 bond. In a hearing Tuesday in Jasper Superior Court with Judge…
To be as big a football fan as I am, I don’t watch a whole lot of pro football. Anyone who knows me knows of my love for the college version of the game and my allegiance to the football team of my alma mater. I also love the high school version of the game,…
I’m fixing to get on the road to glory. That’s what I had to do to avoid the path to destruction. That’s what my Aunt Cleo told me back during the summer of 1951 after I had let her pet squirrel out of his cage on her back porch. The porch was screened-in, but that…
Fall is in the air. Some crisp, dew covered mornings, and mother-nature will soon usher in beautiful foliage, red, yellow, orange leaves against the green pine. Football games are another sure sign that we are in the thick of fall. Saturday is college football all-day, literally, the pre-game shows start at 9 a.m. now. Sunday…