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The Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church will be celebrating it’s 120th year Church Anniversary on December 2, 2007 at 3:00 p.m.
Our Special Guest will be Trinity Full Gospel Church.  Pastor Lorenzo Simmons will be the guest speaker.  During this service, their will be a special presentation present to one of our Golden Members.
We invite you […]

The University of Arkansas at Monticello concert choir will present its fall concert on Monday, December 3 at 7:30 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center auditorium. Admission is free and open to the public.

Billies will play in tournament championship game Saturday at 2:30 p.m., against Little Rock Mills. 

Enon Community Center on Hwy 35 E will host a yard sale and auction Saturday, from 7 a.m.—until.
Anyone who wishes to set up a yard sale on the grounds for that day needs to contact Jessie Griffin (367-1159/ 723-4420). Yard sale spots are $5 each.
At 10 a.m. Dale McKiever will begin the open-commission auction. Anyone […]

The Drew Central Elementary PTO is making a list and checking it twice, because Santa Claus is coming to Drew Central!
Join us for “Cookies with Santa”, and come to PTO’s winter wonderland at the cafeteria from 5:00pm–7:00pm, Friday.
Kids can decorate cookies, write letters to Santa, and have their photo taken by the top elf, Ms. Meredith, as […]

A standing room only crowd, appearing to all be city employees (or family member of employees) attended the Monticello City Council’s special called session Wednesday night.
The meeting was held to discuss and decide which health insurance plan to choose, and how (or whether) the city will continue to provide health insurance for families of employees.

The city council had 3 different insurance plans proposed to them.
And the choices were………………

The speech and debate team at the University of Arkansas at Monticello brought home 27 awards, including second place overall, at the Louisiana State University-Shreveport Swing Tournament November 9-11. The tournament was hosted by LSU-S and the University of Louisiana-Monroe.

Fishing Tip:   Here’s a tip from bass fishing pro Gerald Swindle’s video Classic Patterns on jig fishing in the winter: When the fish are lethargic, try fishing main lake docks and cover with a slow-falling jig during the warmest part of the day. While fish will school up and suspend over open water, there will […]

The winning floats in the Monticello Christmas Parade are……
Business
1.    Bellelise Booksellers
2.    Commercial Bank
3.    H & R Block
Non-Profit
1.    MIS
2.    Monticello Pre-K
3.    Jr. Auxiliary Sr. Court
Religious
1.    Pilgrim’s Rest AME Church
2.    Rose Hill Presbyterian Church
3.    Morning Star MB Church

James Randle went before the Drew County Circuit Court Monday, charged with intimidating a (second) witness.
Randle was earlier convicted of 2nd degree battery, 1st degree false imprisonment, and 1st degree terroristic threatening, and was sentenced to the Arkansas Department of Correction.  He was charged with intimidating a witness to prevent them from testifying against him in that […]

The basketball high school Billies lost a close contest to the Dumas Bobcats Tuesday night by a score of 43 to 39, in a game played at Dumas.
The Billies travel to Little Rock to take on Sylvan Hills, Thursday.

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Derek Easter, Duke Sturdivant and Justin Johnson combined for 39 points to lift the University of Arkansas at Monticello past West Alabama 57-53 at Steelman Fieldhouse Monday night.