C. LaVaughn makes tackle-M. Crawford closes IN The Jasper County 11-12 year-old football team won the Piedmont Football League Superbowl with a come from behind victory against the Spalding County Lions. Despite being undermanned and undersized the young Canes team has proven that with hard work and team play anything can be accomplished. This was…
GAVIN EDGE #26 SCORES The Piedmont Academy football team took everything visiting Brentwood had to offer Friday night but still recorded a 35-7 win in the state semifinals. As a result, the Cougars will play in the GISA Class AA state championship game for the second year in a row. Piedmont will host the contest…
James Martin Darity, Sr., 68, of Hillsboro, died Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011, at Jasper Memorial Hospital in Monticello. Mr. Darity was born in Macon and moved to Hillsboro in 1971. His father, John Martin Darity, Sr., and sister, Joan Potts, preceded him in death. Before retirement he was a truck driver for the Great Southwest…
Saturday afternoon after the Deer Festival, Gail Sealy, first grade teacher at Piedmont Academy, met me at the El Giro Mexican Restaurant and agreed to sit down and tell me about her life. Since I had only talked to Gail on the phone twice and never seen her before, I had visions of my first…
Maurice Daniel Chaffin, 81, of Ringgold died Monday, Nov. 14, 2011. A native of Monticello, Mr. Chaffin had lived in the Ringgold area for the past 17 months and was formerly of Jacksonville, Fla. where he lived for 45 years. He was a retired employee of W&O Supply in Jacksonville, where he worked in sales.…
Jesse Frank Atkins, Jr., 84, of Monticello, died Monday, November 14, 2011, at Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrenceville. Mr. Atkins was born in Rome and moved to Monticello as a youth. His parents were the late Jesse Frank Atkins, Sr. and Vera Sanders Atkins. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He…
Delores Ann Binion Brooks, 75, died Saturday, November 5, 2011, at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. Mrs. Brooks was born in Savannah to the late Napoleon Bonaparte Binion and Effie Lee Sheppard Binion. She lived in Nashua, N.H. five years before moving to Turtle Cove in 1983. She was a member of New Bethlehem Baptist…
Jesse Rhodes “Jet” Russell, 90, of Griffin and formerly of Monticello died Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011 at Spalding Regional Medical Center. Mr. Russell was born May 29, 1921 in Meriwether County, son of the late Thomas W. Russell and Sara Garrett Russell. He was also preceded in death by brothers, Thomas G. Russell and Robert…
COUGARS ENTER QUARTER-FINAL MATCH Cougars in Shape To Win State, Again—See Story, Page 16
Out of my five top priorities I will rarely ever neglect my health, my family or my work responsibilities. As much as I LOVE writing for The Monticello News, I wasn’t able to fit it into my schedule and take care of the most important things in my life. It made me wonder how others…