LUKE ANDREWS (4) ROUNDS FIRST Piedmont Academy’s baseball team is beginning to make some noise in region play.The Diamond Cougars recorded a 3-2 victory against Monsignor Donovan Monday afternoon to improve to 3-4 in Region 1-AA. Zach Beggs played a key role for Piedmont as the freshman recorded 12 strikeouts while scattering six hits.Beggs also…
On Monday, March 19, we returned to the Gold Dome to begin our 34th legislative day of the 2012 session. As the end of session draws near, we worked long hours this week to ensure the passage of vital legislation that will reform both our state’s tax code and criminal justice system. Also known as…
Jonathan L. Maroney pled guilty to the felony charge of aggravated assault in Jasper Superior Court Tuesday, with Judge William A. Prior, Jr., presiding. Mr. Maroney was sentenced to 10 years, concurrent with any and all existing sentences, with two years to serve and the remainder on probation. He was also charged with fines and…
Larry Edward King, 73, of Monticello, died March 12, 2012 at Abbey Hospice n Social Circle. Mr. King was a veteran Air Force Retired E. I. DuPont. He was a resident of Monticello for 13 years. He is survived by his wife, Sue L. King of Monticello; sons and daughters-in-law Dinny Anderson of Oxford, Troy…
Meredith Taylor Tillman, 35, of Hillsboro, died Wednesday, March 14, 2012, at the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon. Miss Tillman was born in Macon to the late Becky Lea Howard Tillman and Joseph Floyd Tillman. She was a lifelong resident of Hillsboro. She was a 1995 graduate of Jasper County Comprehensive High School.…
Harold Jackson Francis, 81, died Saturday, March 17, 2012, at his residence. Mr. Francis was born in Chattanooga, Tenn. to the late Bob Francis and May Walker Francis. He lived in Ranger, GA for a number of years before moving to Monticello in 1952. He attended Bethel Baptist Church. Mr. Francis loved to garden, which…
JAKEY DUNAGAN, FLANKED BY PARENTS, W/COACHES Piedmont Academy senior Jakey Dunagan will get the chance to do something he eagerly wants to do: continue his football career. Dunagan, who helped the Cougars win back-to-back state championships, signed last week with Morehead State University in Kentucky. A ceremony was held at Piedmont March 14 honoring Dunagan…
Squinting to see the computer monitor screen through swollen eyes, the results of the yellow pollen haze that permeates and coats everything around here this time of year, it must be spring in Jasper County which officially started on March 20th at 1:14 a.m. It doesn’t help to live in a county where there are…
My cell phone rang in the mid-afternoon last Friday. It was Lincoln, my college fraternity brother telling me that his brother-in-law and my fraternity brother Henry had suffered a heart attack. I was stunned. After all, it was just three weeks ago that we were together down in the Low Country of South Carolina whacking…
Well, spring is here, officially on the calendar now. Stepping outside, it is obvious that winter has left us. There are beautiful colors abounding in nature. And, of course, there is the pollen, everywhere too, it appears. Yes, spring is here. With this warmer weather, I did some transplanting last weekend, including one of my…