(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 over yonder.I’m surprised the word yonder is even in the dictionary. But there it was, defined as an indicated distant or somewhat distant place usually…
The Piedmont Academy B-team basketball squads hosted Brentwood Saturday. The Lady Cougars fell 37-19 despite seven points from Jordan Chandler. Haley Tyler added five points while Bridgette Phillips scored four points. Taylor Swart added two points while Cheyenne Galloway scored one. In the boys contest, Piedmont fell 53-36 to visiting Brentwood. Britton Bailey was the…
The Varsity Canes lost a close game to Northeast Macon 46-44 last Friday. Chris Thomas was the leading scorer with 16 and he had 10 rebounds. Xavier Chapman followed Thomas with 10 points, and had 5 rebounds, Deon Epps added 7, Josh Stone, 5, Destin Breaux 3, Quinton Standifer 2 and Brady McMichael 1. Saturday…
Piedmont Academy’s varsity basketball teams were both involved in contests which were decided by one point Tuesday. Unfortunately for the Cougars and Lady Cougars, both games went in the opposition’s favor. The Piedmont boys fell 44-43 in overtime against Central Fellowship in Macon while the Lady Cougars fell 34-33. In the boys game, the score…
The Shiloh Christian Academy basketball teams have continued to play quality basketball over the past weeks with the junior girls and middle school girls winning all of their games and the junior boys and middle school boys also picking up wins after a couple of tough losses. On January 19, SCA hosted St. George Episcopal…
The ‘Canes traveled to Social Circle Saturday, Jan. 28, and competed in the tournament that included 13 teams, and ended up in third place. Social Circle took first place followed by Morgan County. The ‘Canes were in a position to take second place leading Morgan midway through the matches, but let it slip away at…
THE 2011-2012 MIDDLE SCHOOL CANES The Monticello Middle School boy’s basketball team finished the regular season and has won its first game in the Piedmont Athletic Conference (PAC) to advance to the second round of the tournament. The conference includes area middle schools including, Putnam, Morgan, Youth, Loganville, Carver, Social Circle, and Greene. The semi-final…
Theresa Brown, 91, of Monticello died January 17, 2012 at the Retreat Nursing Home. Mrs. Brown was born to the late Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Goolsby on December 7, 1920. She stayed in Monticello all her life where she met and married the late James W. Brown, who preceded her in death. The couple had…
Gladys Reid Benton Frazier, 97, died at her home in Orlando, Fla., on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. She was a native of Jasper County. Mrs. Frazier attended school in Shady Dale. She and her husband, Wilburn Benton, moved from their native home in Monticello to the Orlando area in 1960 to be near their daughter…
A few years ago my family and I went through a most painful loss of a loved one. There were many intense emotions we experienced in the year my brother was ill; shock, then sympathy, followed by anger and then profound sadness. It is something you never quite recover from. I was fortunate enough to…