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Coaches Jeff Ward (top row, l-r), Travis Lawson, Chris Martin, and Charles David worked with 86 boys, teaching character education and football fundamentals this past week at the fourth-annual Jones County Youth Football Skills Camp.
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Last year, there were more tears than smiles for a 6-year-old participant in the Jones County Youth Football Skills Camp. “Camp was really a challenge for him,” Gray Station Middle coach and camp ...
Jones County High offensive coordinator and strength coach Lee Hamner (left) and head coach Dwight Jones observe as football players participate in a summer workout session.
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Jones County High football coach Dwight Jones said that the summer strength and conditioning program, which began last week, is like the main artery to the heart of his football team. “If you don’...
Participants in Friday’s fifth-annual Daylily Dash start the race off in the parking lot of Gray Elementary. Twenty-seven-year-old Jeff Dobias of Macon was the first to make it back to GES, finishing the 5K in 17:22.8.
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The Daylily Festival isn’t all about flowers. Three sporting events – the Daylily Golf Tournament, the Daylily Dash 5K, and the Daylily Horseshoe Pitching Tournament – were on the itinerary this p...
Eighteen-year-old Taylor Jernigan lines up a putt on the 16th hole at Lake Jonesco Golf Course during the second round of the course’s club championship Sunday. Jernigan shot rounds of 66 and 70 to win the event.
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Eighteen-year-old Taylor Jernigan has been firing low numbers at the Lake Jonesco Golf Club Championship for the past two years, but they haven’t been quite low enough. In both 2006 and 2007, Jern...
Clark shows off the two books that Vince Dooley signed while he stopped in her store Monday afternoon.
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About 2:30 p.m. Monday afternoon a lost traveler with a dead cell phone stopped in Kema Clark’s local bookstore. He asked to use the store’s phone and Clark obliged. When the visitor left a messag...
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In the past two weeks, the Jones County High boys’ basketball team has played a season’s worth of games. The Greyhounds, who finished this past season with a 2-22 record, played around 25 games be...
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It’s no small task hosting 72 baseball games in four days. But for the Jones County High baseball team, last week’s summer tournament served as both an opportunity to get in some games minus a hea...
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These are the games that no one sees. In a nearly empty gym, half of the bleachers are slid out and half of the lights are turned on. The officiating crew consists of coaches of the teams that are...
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Toby Evans came down from McDonough for two days last week to be a part of Jones County High fastpitch softball coach Blake Lyons’ second summer camp. Evans, the fastpitch coach at Eagles Landing ...
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The newest addition to the Jones County High coaching staff will have a small role in name only. Legendary high school football coach Charlie Winslette will serve as defensive tackles coach on the...
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Johnny Williams has been working basketball camps at Georgia College and State University for the past 20 years, as well as coordinating camps as a coach at Putnam County, Georgia Military College...
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Recently graduated seniors Jackson Hamlin and Trey Whitehead were among the volunteers assisting with Barry Veal’s 15th-annual baseball camp at Jones County High. For Veal, it doesn’t seem like th...
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For the second season in a row, the Macon Telegraph honored a Jones County High athlete as its GHSA All-Middle Georgia Baseball Player of the Year. Last year it was senior shortstop Brendan Hampto...
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Courtney Davis was a jack-of-all-trades this past season for the Jones County High track team. Competing in five events at every meet, Davis’ routine consisted of a lot of multitasking. First, he ...
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