Real Estate Transactions

JAN. 13-19, 2023 JAN. 13 J & T Investments, LLC to Charles Johnson; parcel J69/016; $131,000.00 B. C. Hammock Construction Company, Inc. to James Barron, III; parcel J65C/016; $132,000.00 Sandy Walker to Hather Watson; 146 Whitaker Rd.; parcel J65B00150G; $220,599.

Country Club returns to local ownership, improvements coming

River North Country Club, formerly known as Healy Point, has been purchased by a group of local investors led by the club’s founding family. Childers B. Adams, grandson of the late Robert J. Adams Jr.

Crime Watch

The following information is gleaned from incident reports, which are public record, from the Jones County Sheriff’s Department and Gray Police Department Jan. 11-16, 2023. Jan. 11 Sgt. Carr was stationary on Hwy.

BUSINESS UPDATES

Stone Gable Farm, a local beef farm, sells to residents around the area, and keeps their cows happy while doing so. Chris Weidner, the farm owner, said he’s lived in Jones County since the late 1960s.

Gray Garden Club meeting

BOE members sworn in to begin 2023

The Jones County Board of Education began 2023 by swearing in three board members who were reelected to their posts in the May non-partisan election. Board Chairman Ginger Bailey was the first to receive her oath of office from Probate Judge Lewis Patterson at the Jan. 10 Board meeting.

Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, World population is over 8 billion people - creates global warming, viruses, disease, shortage on almost every product, generates inflation. In 1920, the world population was 1.9 billion. Lehman Wood

Lichens are everywhere

We have entered into the time of year where I get called or emailed about these fuzzy or fluffy green things growing on trees or shrubs. What you are seeing is a lichen (pronounced like-en). Right now, you will literally find these organisms on anything and everything.

Extension Service

Brennan Jackson Jones County Extension Agent

Traffic stop leads to three years in prison

A Macon man was sentenced to 10 years with three years to serve after entering a guilty plea to charges he received as a passenger during an April traffic stop. Brandon Jarquavius Todd was in Jones County Superior Court Jan.