Jackets win two from previously unbeaten Cook
The Jeff Davis High baseball team broke its 7-game losing streak Friday, winning two games over previously undefeated Cook High School, 5-1 and 1-0. The win in the first game gave Coach Paul Glass his 500th victory in 24 years as the Yellow Jackets’ head coach. And Monday the Yellow Jackets completed the 3-game…
Read MoreBlue team wins two
Jeff Davis Middle School’s Blue Team won a pair of lopsided games over Swainsboro last week, beating the Tigers 16-0 Monday in Hazlehurst and 10-3 Friday in Swainsboro. In Monday’s win, Peyton Jones was 3-for-3 at the plate with two singles a double and two RBI, and Jeremiah Davis homered twice and drove in…
Read MoreJayvees split games
Jeff Davis High School’s JV baseball team split a pair of games last week, defeating Toombs County 3-2 and falling to Pierce County 2-0. Noah Brantley hit a bases-loaded single in the bottom of the seventh to lift JD to its 3-2 win over Toombs. Zack Hulett had a pair of doubles and an RBI…
Read MoreLady Jacket tracksters dominate Fitzgerald meet
The Yellow Jacket Track and Field teams traveled to Fitzgerald for a weekday meet against six other schools: Fitzgerald, Highland Christian, Irwin County, Turner County, West Laurens, and Worth County. Both the boys and girls teams had a great showing in their first full meet of the year. The Lady Jackets dominated the meet…
Read MoreThe Pendulum Swings — By John Reed
The Pendulum Swings Last week I attended a function at the Big House intended to raise awareness and funds to make repairs. Live music was provided by vocalist Kelly (Seebeck) Efstathiou and her husband. More than two decades ago, another push was made for the mansion, and music was provided by Mike Edwards, Greg Waters,…
Read More“Perimeter” vs. “Parameter” — By Tommy Purser
It started in October, 2021. That’s when the March Term 2021 Jeff Davis County Grand Jury returned its presentments as required by law. Whoever wrote those presentments, and I have no idea who it was, wrote that the Grand Jury members received orientation from the District Attorney “as to its civil and criminal responsibilities, as…
Read MoreAttempt to call city council meeting fails
Two members of the Hazlehurst City Council tried to call a meeting of the council this week but City Attorney Ken Smith’s office said the request for the meeting violated Section 2.19(b) of the City Charter. In an email to City Clerk Vernice Thompson, Smith’s partner and son Cason Smith said since the meeting was…
Read MoreJury finds Smith guilty
District Attorney Keith Higgins announces that on March 1 a Jeff Davis County jury found James Larvelle Smith, 30, of Hazlehurst, guilty of one count of burglary in the second degree. The facts of the case show that on May 15, 2023, Jeffrey Ellis, an employee of Timmy Taylor, found the defendant, James Smith, in…
Read MoreNeneto Blake enters guilty plea
District Attorney Keith Higgins announces that Neneto Blake, 35, of Auburn, Maine, entered a negotiated guilty plea in Jeff Davis Superior Court on Feb. 26 to one count of aggravated assault and one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The facts of the case show that on Oct. 2, 2022, Jeff…
Read MoreTaylor to run again
Jeff Davis County Probate Judge Jason Taylor this week announced his intention to seek re-election. In making his announcement he said the following. To the citizens of Jeff Davis County, I made a promise three years ago to be committed to serving my community. The citizens of Jeff Davis County elected me to serve in…
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