(Editor’s Note: Ted Dunagan is on Sabbatical from writing his column. For the next few weeks, The Monticello News will feature some columns that ran previously.)I’m fixing to quit dilly-dallying around.My momma used to tell me to quit dilly-dallying around when she had me working in her garden.About every other butter bean I picked, I…
As the sun made its way towards the horizon drawing Easter Sunday to a close a grand a glorious thing happened on the hallowed grounds of the Augusta National Golf Club. When the seventy second hole of the Masters was completed the leader board showed that Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa had recorded a score…
I was among a number of Jasper County’s community leaders who gathered recently in Atlanta for an economic development meeting, which was promised as the first of many. The second Jasper County community economic development summit is scheduled for April 27, this time in Monticello. In preparation for that, Susan Peacock, the facilitator of the…
If you take my advice from last week and begin spending more time in the sun, please do so with caution. The days of iodine infused baby oil for a deep dark tropical tan are over. Fortunately I didn’t totally damage my skin from perpetual and abusive sunbathing as a teenager. But thirty years later…
A season which included some growing pains came to a conclusion for the Piedmont Academy tennis teams this week. Piedmont competed in the Region 1-AA tournament Monday and Tuesday hosted by Brentwood in Sandersville. Britton Bailey, Piedmont’s lone boys player, won his opening-round match Monday 6-1, 6-1 before falling 6-0, 6-0. The following day the…
Piedmont Academy baseball coach Danny Camp was at a loss for words following Tuesday’s Region 1-AA contest against Covenant. An 11-1 setback will often do that to a coach. The Cougars ventured to Macon in need of a region victory but were turned away. “We just didn’t play well at all,” Camp said. “We’ll regroup…
After several days of not competing, the Piedmont Academy soccer teams were back on the field Tuesday and both earned victories. The Piedmont boys defeated Trinity of Statesboro 9-0 while the Lady Cougars defeated Monsignor Donovan 7-4. Both matches were at home. For the Piedmont boys, it was a quality bounce back win from the…
The ‘Canes went into the Spring Break with a 4-4 record in Region 4AA. They returned to action Tuesday on the road versus Pike County, completed too late to report in this edition. They return to action today, April 12 at home versus non-region foe Locust Grove. Then they begin a seven-game stretch of region…
M. MOTE-PATTERSON, A. LABRIOLA Senior Ami Labriola and Junior Mackenzie Mote-Paterson, from Jasper County High School, were recently selected to the 4AA All-Region Cheerleader Squad. According to Sallie Peters, cheer coach, “Miss Mote-Patterson is a wonderful young lady. She loves cheerleading and is by far one of the most competitive people I know. “She always…
The Shiloh Christian Academy (SCA) Knights continued their winning ways on Monday when they traveled to Dublin and took a hard fought one run victory over the Trinity Christian School Crusaders for their sixth win in a row. Overall the pitchers dueled it out and each held the other team to limited hits and runs,…