Thursday evening was my wife’s birthday and we had planned a family dinner at the Bonefish Grille in Macon which is one of her favorite restaurants. I had gone to Macon earlier in the day to attend a funeral and I was waiting on my wife and daughter to meet me at Bonefish when my…
I’m fixing to set the record straight on taxes and insurance. In just a few weeks, just before Christmas, it’ll be time to shell out the second part of your property tax. Most folks have already paid the first half, which was due the middle of last month. The story is that it was split…
(This week’s Commit to be Fit column was written by Savannah McGinnis, Suzanne McGinnis’ daughter. Savannah is a junior at Piedmont Academy.) Growing up with a “fitness freak” I was constantly harassed about staying in shape. Starting with the deer dash one-mile fun run I began my slow and quite unsteady running career. My love…
The past month I have very much enjoyed the drive to work and back from my home, nestled in the woods. Much of my drive takes me along roads surrounded on either side by deep forest. It is a drive I enjoy all year long, as it offers me wonderful glimpses of wildlife and fauna.…
I will never forget the first time I sat in the driver’s seat of my dad’s jeep in Oregon for the purpose of learning how to drive; I must have been like 10 at the time. There was this super cool place called “The Bute,” which was a large expanse of desert and sand dunes;…
LANE THOMAS CARRIES FOR CANES Do you remember the story about how the ancient Greeks defeated Troy? The Monticello Hurricanes did not bring a “Trojan Horse” as a gift to the Lamar Trojans football team last Friday night. Instead, a gift of nine Monticello fumbles was given to the Region 4AA Champions as Lamar County…
PETER LAWSON SCORES TOUCHDOWN The Piedmont Academy football team capped its second consecutive undefeated regular season Friday night at the expense of an old rival. The Cougars rolled through Gatewood on the road in Eatonton, 49-12, and will now begin the process of capturing their second state championship in as many seasons. Piedmont hosts Brookwood…
ORLANDO JONES JR., MAGEN WAGES Orlando Jones says he’s been playing The Monticello News football contest for 13-14 years, and has won five or six times, and this week he was the only one to get as many as 13 right in the weekly contest. He beat out a slew of others who had 12…
Brady McMichael, 17, a senior at Jasper County High School and the son of Jay and Kim McMichael, killed this eight-point buck opening weekend of firearms season in Jasper County. See photos of lots more successful hunters with their trophies as well as complete information on this Saturday’s Deer Festival in the special section inside…
Georgia-Pacific has permanently closed its plywood mill at Monticello, according to Melodie Ruse, a spokesperson for the company. “We had been operating a steam boiler at the plywood mill that supplied the steam to run both our medium density fiberboard (MDF) and stud mills located at the same complex as the plywood mill. We have…