BIRDIE SMITH Springfield Missionary Baptist Church honored Mrs. Birdie L. Smith, 92, Sunday, March 4, with an Honor and Appreciation Program for her life of “Love, Benevolence, and Service.”Mrs. Smith’s life began in Woodville, Ala. on November 18, 1919 with herself and five siblings born to the late Robert and Jeannie E. Williams.She graduated from…
Jasper County took to the polls to vote for the Presidential primary race at seven precincts across the county. Countywide, Newt Gingrich (R) dominated the race with 1,156 votes, 62.59% of Jasper voters chose Gingrich. Behind him was Rick Santorum (R), with 317 votes, Mitt Romney (R) with 266 votes, Barack Obama (D) with 186…
MRS. SPURLOCK 'CULTIVATES' By the time Jasper County Primary School second grade teacher Ginny Spurlock gets her students each year some of them have had some form of education for up to five years, but may lack interest in education and how it relates to their lives. In her 17 years at JCPS, Mrs. Spurlock…
The ever-popular subject of roads took up much of Monday’s county commission meeting, since the group had scheduled a one-hour work session on roads from 9 to 10 a.m., then agreed to have another one-hour work session on dirt roads at its next meeting, March 19. Originally, the recreation commission was scheduled to be the…
A Jasper County deputy was injured Monday night when he responded to a call of intoxicated pedestrians on Pennington Road in North Jasper County. Deputy Carlos Rhodes responded to the call to find two male Hispanics walking along the road. Their truck which was a ways up the road had a flat tire. When confronted,…
Saturday afternoon emergency officials were summoned to an automobile accident on Hwy. 83 south near Enon Church. According to a report from the Georgia State Patrol, April Seabolt, driving a 2004 Toyota Camry was stopped at a driveway off Hwy. 83 when Valencia Clark was traveling north on Hwy. 83 in a 2007 Ford Taurus.…
If you are a gardener like me, you have been enjoying the warm winter we have been having here in middle Georgia. And enjoying the warm winter as a gardener means being out in the garden, working. Just the other day, after work, I was out in the warm mid day sun, pruning roses, grape…
(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 go by the lawyer’s office. He’s going to read my Aunt Fanny’s will today. She had promised me for years that she was going to leave…
As of the writing of this column broadcaster Rush Limbaugh is still on the air but losing sponsors because of inappropriate comments that he made concerning Georgetown University law student, Sandra Fluke. As many of you know Rush called Ms. Fluke a word that I will not use in this column. The word is a…
Monday, February 27, 2012, marked the beginning of the eighth legislative week of the 2012 session. With “Crossover Day”—the 30th and final legislative day that most House bills have to pass the House and make their way to the Senate—scheduled for Wednesday, March 7, we will put in some of our longest days this week…