Tuesday evening’s Monticello City Council meeting was punctuated by much hand shaking and hugs as the council, as it has consisted for the last four years, met for the last time.Mayor Pro-tem Russell Gross was absent, as was Councilwoman Katherine Alexander. The remaining council members recognized the cast and crew of Piedmont Academy’s one-act play,…
Late last week investigators with the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office (JCSO) arrested Bart Wesley Ray and charged him with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of meth and possession of marijuana less than one ounce. The arrest was made at Mr. Ray’s residence on Flamingo Drive in Turtle Cove during a probation…
Martha S. “Mollie” Pompey, sitting Monticello City Councilwoman and candidate for mayor pro-tem, is challenging the results of the run-off election held Tuesday, Dec. 6, between herself and Bobby Jacobs. Mrs. Pompey claims that several voters were not allowed to vote in the election based upon their race. In her complaint, Mrs. Pompey names five…
(Christmas is right around the corner, and I thought I might share my Christmas list to Santa Claus with you…) Dear Santa, Wow! Another year has come and gone, again. I imagine you are as busy as ever. I hope you are well. Are your elves getting the reindeer ready for the big night? Please…
In a little over a week we will celebrate a birth. We will celebrate the birth of a baby born to a peasant couple in an out of the way place in an out of the way corner of the world. Yet, we know how profound of an event that birth was. In that birth…
How many of you have your Christmas shopping finished? I just love these folks who boast, “why I finished all my shopping in August and the gifts wrapped by Thanksgiving.” Just where do you keep these wrapped and ready for giving gifts, in your gift wrapping room? Miss Hostess with the Mostest who always has…
I’m fixing to try and make it through December. Things are pretty rough all over, and it seems like it might take some kind of a miracle to get us through December. I’ve never seen a miracle, and frankly, I can’t even remember the last one I heard about. Maybe it was Mother Teresa, but…
I love to run when the wind is blowing at about 8 MPH, when the sky is adorned with altostratus clouds, when the high temperatures are at 78.67 degrees Fahrenheit and when the humidity is about 10 percent. That describes my perfect exercise day. I anxiously wait for the perfect day because I know when…
All right, let me just start off by saying that no one was hurt in all the craziness and awesomeness of the events that I am about to describe, to all of you now informed and suddenly concerned parents. My birthday was last week, and there may be such thing as a “sweet sixteen,” but…
John Marcellus Benton, 81, of Gray, died Friday, Dec. 9, 2011, at the Carl Vinson VA Medical Center in Dublin. Mr. Benton was born in Monticello to the late Herman Gay Benton, Sr. and Sally D. Ellis Benton. He and his twin brother, William Benton, were star athletes for the Monticello Hurricanes in football and…