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Join The CALL in Drew County on Monday, July 23 at 6:30 PM at Pauline Baptist Church to find out how you can become a foster or adoptive family.

You will learn more about The CALL, explore the foster/adoption certification process, and get answers to your questions. No obligation!

Please RSVP at https://thecallinarkansas.org/drew-events/ (more…)

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MYSA will be having Fall soccer registration on the following dates.

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Pictured front row left to right: Claudia Horton, Brenda Chisom- EHC County President and Anne Hiebsch
Back row left to right: Juanita Webb, Hazelene McCray, County Extension Agent, and Patricia Kulbeth (more…)

Thursday, 5-7p & Friday, 11a-1p
Mrs. Judith Bynum will be signing her new book, “For Thou Art With Me, My Journey of Cancer through Poetry” at All Occasions Flowers & Gifts!

She will have books to sell and autograph. Please join us in celebrating the publishing of Mrs. Bynum’s new book.
Refreshments will be served.

All Occasions is located at
508 W. Gaines St. Monticello by the Revenue Department and Across from Breaker Drive-Inn

The Arkansas Bar Association honored Monticello attorney Katelyn Busby with the Lawyer Community Legacy Award on June 14th during the association’s annual meeting at the Hot Springs Convention Center. (more…)

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Market in the Park Farmer’s Market is Open Saturday at the Rodney Shelton Foss Minipark (Usual location on South Main Street).

Market starts at 8:00 a.m. and now runs until noon every Saturday through October.

Come visit our vendors to get your fresh produce as well as honey, baked goods, hand crafted soaps and jewelry. Check out our Facebook and Instagram accounts for more information.

Cornerstone Christion Academy would like to congratulate Dr. John Austin Beatty on his recent accomplishment. Austin is a co-valedictorian graduate of the 2010 class of C.C.A. He is the son of Misty (C.C.A. teacher) and John W. Beatty (Drew County Sheriff’s Dept.) of Collins.

Austin is a 2014 graduate of UAM in Monticello with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and Biochemistry. He is also a 2018 graduate of UAMS in Little Rock where he earned his Doctor of Medicine degree. Dr. Beatty will begin his internship in Tulsa, Oklahoma this summer with In His Image Family Medicine Residency Program.  CongratulationsAustin!!!

Southeast Arkansas Community Action Corporation Governing Board of Directors will meet in a regular scheduled board meeting on Tuesday July 17, 2018. The meeting will begin at 1:00 p.m. and will be held at the SEACAC Complex, (more…)

Drew County Beekeepers Association meets this evening, June 14, at the library, at 6 PM.

Everyone is welcome to attend.

The 2018 Scholarship Recipients: (R-L) BreAuna Bailey-Warren High School, Zadrian Goodwin- Monticello High School, Mikayla McGregor-Monticello High School and Emberley Riley-Monticello High School.

NAACP local Branch #6042 hosted a Baccalaureate Ceremony on May 20, 2018 to present its local scholarships. Scholarship Chair, Sheena Garrard, reported “It was our goal to provide a scholarship opportunity for 2018 Seniors who attend Dermott, Drew Central, Monticello, and Warren High Schools. The purpose of the scholarship was to encourage student participation in a post-secondary program of study and to relieve a portion of the financial burden. We would also like to thank the NAACP members and community leaders for their generous donations towards this scholarship. (more…)

From the United Kingdom to Arkansas, research forester’s silvicultural histories are recognized. The Editorial Board of Forestry, an international journal of forest research recently  awarded Don Bragg, Research Forester, USDA Forest Service, the “2017 Percy Stubbs, John Bolton King and Edward Garfitt Prize for Silviculture” for advancing silviculture research. (more…)

Extension Homemakers Cooking Club will meet Thursday evening, May 24th, at 6 p.m., at the Courthouse Club Room.

Everyone is welcome to attend.

Monticello’s graduation will be held tonight at 8 PM.

Location has been changed to the Monticello high school gym.

Tickets for the graduation were issued to the seniors, yesterday. These tickets will be required to gain seating to the graduation, tonight.

The On-Premise Sales team of Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated, with distribution centers in Camden and Little Rock, AR and Memphis, TN, recently came together for a project benefiting Options, Inc.

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Together, with their parents, Rebecca Lynn Ozment and Josh Allan Tooke request the honor of your presence at their wedding as they are united as husband and wife on Saturday, May 19th (more…)

The Kim’s Dance Factory Competition Team under the direction of Rachel Kellum recently competed in The Triumph National Talent Competition in Benton, Arkansas (more…)

Hospice Home Care of Monticello would like to show our gratitude for each one of our volunteers! Without you, our volunteer program would not be a huge success!! Volunteers make our world go round!!

“Great things are brought about and burden are lightened through the efforts of many hands anxiously engaged in a good cause” – Elder M. Russell Ballard

Thank you so much for your help in showing the appreciation to our volunteers.

Students from Monticello Dance Academy’s competition team competed at Dance Showcase USA Regionals in Maumelle April 7th and 8th. MDA took a total of 36 routines to the event. Routines are scored on an adjudicated system of points with Elite Platinum being the highest, then Platinum, Elite Gold, and Gold. They receive a first, second, or third within their category, and then placed in the overall for their respective age and level of competition! (more…)