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Ashley County Cares Breast Cancer Committee and the Outlaw Family will sponsor the 3rd Annual Trail Ride at the Outlaw Farm in the Milo Community. The rides will be held on Friday evening, October 3rd at 5:00 p.m., and Saturday, October 4th, at 9:00 a.m..

Fifth graders at Monticello Intermediate School composed essays about responsibility, the character word of the month for September. Selected essays will be posted on the character board and students will share those essays over the intercom. Students whose essays were chosen as exemplary writing are:Front: Katie Connelley, Wil McCoy, Mary Claire Guanzon, Khevin Aterbridge
Back: Madeline [...]

THE AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM WILL BE CLOSED WEDNESDAY. NO CLASSES. NO BUSES.

Election Results

Yet another serious auto accident took place in Drew County Saturday morning, around 2 a.m.
The driver of this Ford pick-up was injured when his vehicle struck the bridge guard-rail on Tucker Creek, on HWY 35 East.  After the original impact, the truck landed in the creek. 
The rescue unit responded to free the driver, who is [...]

Ray Singleton, of the Monticello Police Dept. (shown here in uniform) recently graduated from the Arkansas Law Enforcement Training Academy in Camden.
Pictured with Singleton are Lt. Steven Stain, Chief Robert Rosegrant, and Cpt. Eddy Deaton.

The Arkansas Department of Labor, the U.S. Department of Labor and the Ar Worker’s Compensation Commssiotn will present Workers’ Safety Conference. The conference is sponsed by Southeast Arkansas Safety Association.
When? October 2, 2008, this Thursday
Time? 7:50 to 2:30
Where? Captiol Room of the Gibson Center at UAM (Monticello, AR)
Cost? $20.00 per person, includes lunch at College [...]

The UAM Pomeroy Planetarium will present the first program with its new state of the art star projector - a Digitarium Alpha 2+.
The presentation will be Tuesday Sept. 30 at 7:00 p.m. and will be entitled Hubble Vision. It is free to the public and all are welcome.

Winners at the Town and Gown Duplicate Bridge Club on Monday, September 29 were:
1st place Joann Hawley and Lowell Lynde
2nd place Kaye Koen and Faye Chandler
3rd place Gene Gulledge and Roy Cabaniss
4th place J. C. Nichols and Charles Dolberry

The Monticello Fire Dept. repsonded to a call, reporting that an 18-wheeler had caught on fire behink Hibbett’s Sports, in the Northgate Shopping Center, around 6:20, Monday evening.
Upon arrival, the fire had been extinguished by employees on the scene.
Damage to the tractor was limited.

Andrew Garcia’s fair entrance ticket was drawn Friday night, winning Andrew $25.00 more cash to enjoy at the Drew County Fair.

MHS student, Aaron Smith, was the winner of the $25.00 cash drawing at the Drew County Fair, Saturday night.

Little Miss Drew County–Dixie Morrison
1st runner up-Laila Mills
2nd runner up-Amira Moseley
Photogenic-Larren Rawls

Young Miss Drew County-Kelli Jo Stain
1st runner up-Sarah Pennington
2nd runner up-Madelyn Elizabeth McKeown
Photogenic-Mackenzie Maloney

Ms. Drew County–Carol Moore
1st runner up & Congeniality Winner–Clarissa Pace
2nd runner up–Amanda Nall
3rd runner up & Photogenic–Jessica Russell

The Billies “B” game tonight has been cancelled by Star City.