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Mrs. Rene Teater and Wanda Jackson’s 3rd grade classes are shown performing a musical for parents Monday afternoon in MIS cafetorium.
The program was directed by Mrs. Haley Greer.

Last year, Jeff told about the life of Jesus, as the One Monticello Life for Easter Sunday. There’s not a more deserving subject for this week’s feature. Jesus, the One who has changed more lives than anyone else who ever walk on the earth, including mine. After reading, be sure to play the video at [...]

U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln will deliver the keynote address at the National Cotton Council’s Annual meeting on Monday, February 11, 2008.
Lincoln, who hails from a seventh-generation Arkansas farm family, is a senior member of the Senate Agriculture Committee and is Chair of the Subcommittee on Production, Income Protection, and Price Support. 
This week, she was selected [...]

More than 200 dads, stepdads, grandfathers and father figures showed up at MIS Tuesday night for the kickoff event of Watch DOGS.
Scott Huse, the national director of Watch DOGS spoke to the men while the kids played under supervision of teachers, Americorps workers and members of the Parent-Teacher Organization (PTO).
Watch DOGS is a program for dads and father figures [...]

Dads, grandfathers, and father-figures will converge on Monticello Intermediate School Tuesday, October 9 for a Dads & Kids Pizza Event at 6:00 p.m. The one-hour gathering will kick off the Watch D.O.G.S. (Dads of Great Students) program at MIS.

After a banner first year of activity, interaction, new relationships and community news and information, we’re ready to set MonticelloLive aside. We’ve loved having the interaction with people from all areas of Monticello and the surrounding community. We truly live in a wonderful area! Amazing people. Perhaps one of the most well-loved features of the [...]

After yesterday’s special election for the city of Monticello, the votes are in, with 482 voting for the 15-year one-cent sales tax and 275 voting against. The turnout was actually lower than the 1997 election, in which 613 voted in favor of the tax then, with 345 voting against it.
According to the Drew County Clerk’s [...]

The special election for the proposed one-cent sales tax is today, August 14. Monticello city poll sites will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
A sample ballot, provided by the Monticello City Clerk, reads as follows:
SALES AND USE TAX
The sales and use tax shall be levied and used for (a) financing public infrastructure, capital [...]

In this past weekend’s 4-H Range Events competition at the C.A. Vines 4-H Center in Ferndale, one of Monticello’s senior teams placed third overall among all participating teams from across the state. The team, consisting of Matt McKeown, Zack Christmas, Brad Holt and Steven Koone also placed first in archery in second in shot gun.
Terry [...]

Country Music Television’s new series, Born Country, is a “one-hour docu-reality series revealing interesting aspects of viewers’ lives.” This Friday night, the show will feature Monticello’s Shannon Carter in an episode entitled “Looking for Love” as it explores dating in small towns. The program will air at 9:00 p.m.
You can see a promotional clip from [...]

If you’ll check the Organizations page, you can see what groups, clubs, and churches have sent in information to be posted. Feel free to use the contact form for submitting your news items. Also, you can send in engagements and wedding announcements for the Wedding page. Don’t forget to let everyone know about your Garage [...]

Monticello’s AT&T store, located on Highway 425 South next Sonic, was a buzz of activity this afternoon as customers lined up to receive Apple’s latest innovation: the iPhone. Apple first released information about the iPhone in January, and media hype has kept the device in headlines ever since.
Matthew Tadlock, 10 years old, from Hamburg [...]

The Monticello pool at McCloy Park opened today for the Monticello Marlins swim meet against Crossett.

Everyone is invited to the wedding of Jamie Cannon and Beau Beard this Saturday, June 23, 6:00 p.m. at the Church of Christ on Gabbert St.

At last weekend’s Junior Stroke Golf Tournament, Monticellonian Brooks Ashcraft tied for second overall in the 16-17 year-old division of the Monticello Junior Stroke Golf Tournament.

The Bloggers’ Choice Awards are beginning nominations, and we’d appreciate if you’d consider voting for MonticelloLive and spreading the word about it!
It would also be nice to submit your favorite local blogs! Go to the blogs page to find some you would enjoy nominating.

With summer upon us and kids home, as well as other responsibilities crying out for more attention, we’re making the hard decision to scale MonticelloLive back over the summer. We will still be accepting submissions for stories and news releases, but we will not be actively covering news events until sometime in August.
Last month was [...]

Wednesday night’s crowd at a called Monticello City Council meeting was standing room only. On the agenda Wednesday night was discussion of the proposed community center/recreation/municipal building that has been the center point of Mayor Joe Rogers’ term to date. Members of the city council at their May 17 meeting decided to table discussion [...]