Vehicle Tags

MAY 28, 2025 Jones County ($8,369.35) City of Gray ($837.00) River North ($110.35) Total tags ($9,316.70)

Clifton Ridge hosts Spring band concert

Clifton Ridge Middle School hosted its annual spring band concert, showcasing the talents of the sixth grade beginning band alongside the seventh and eighth-grade concert band.

Childs pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud; awaits sentencing

The former market president of a local bank recently entered a guilty plea in federal court to the charge of conspiracy to commit bank fraud.

JCHS drama presents

Jones County High School’s Drama Department recently presented Spaghetti Western: Or... Mission Im-Pasta-ble, a dinner theater performance in place of their annual spring production.

County looks for possible buyer to care for cemetery

The Jones County Board of Commissioners just might have an idea that could resolve the issue of the county’s indigent cemetery.Board members devoted a May 6 work session to the dilemma.

Atkinson had others apply for loans for his logging business

Atkinson had others apply for loans for his logging businessA recently unsealed federal indictment in the Middle District of Georgia in Macon charges Ronnie Atkinson with conspiracy to commit bank fraud and lists the amount of the fraud as $3 million.

Mining proponents still try to sell bad idea

One of my favorite quotes comes from the late Milwaukee Braves slugger Joe Adcock, who observed of his teammate Henry Aaron: “Trying to sneak a fastball by Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise by a rooster.

The mother who was but wasn’t

She loved me so much.Often, she’d tell stories of my childhood and always begin with, “You were the cutest little thing I ever seen.”Her favorite story to tell happened when I was three. “Your Mama always dressed you like a little doll. I ain’t never saw nothin’ like it.

Letters to the Editor

My name is Courtney and I’m the radiology technician at Gray Family Health. I’ve worked for Dr. Linda Arnold for over four years now and I absolutely adore her and admire all that she does for our patients and our community.

Real Life

“All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made.” (Jn 1:3) In the very first book of the Bible, Genesis, we learn that God is Lord, God is Light, and God is Life. God is Lord in that He is the Creator of everything, speaking all things into existence.