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According to confirmed reports, Bruce Terry, director of the Southeast Educational Co-operative, here in Monticello, was suspended with pay, by the Co-operative’s board of directors, at their meeting, Friday.

Daniel Judkins of Monticello graduated from Ouachita Baptist University during May commencement exercises.
Judkins received a Bachelor of Science degree, with a major in biology.
A total of 196 students received Baccalaureate degrees during Ouachita’s spring commencement ceremony held on the lawn in front of Cone-Bottoms Hall.

South Arkansas Community College in El Dorado is pleased to announce that theie Spring Dean’s List includes Monticello’s Regalado Derueda and Sarah Rhodes.

The Hank Thompson Scholarship fund has been established at the Arkansas Superior Federal Credit Union in Monticello, AR. 
This fund was established to assist students with tuition, books, and other educational needs, who are majoring in Health and Physical Education (preferably baseball or softball players) at a major college or university in the state of Arkansas.  […]

University of Arkansas Chancellor John A. White is proud to announce the names of the local students who earned a place on the Chancellor’s list fand Dean’s List for the fall 2007 semester.
Undergraduate students on the Dean’s list represent the top 10 percent of students in their college.  
The following local students are on both the […]

Ten students and two teachers from Drew Central High School attended the 41st Arkansas Junior Science and Humanities symposium Friday, March 16 through Sunday, March 18 hosted by Arkansas Tech University.
The JSHS promotes original research and experimentation in the sciences, engineering and mathematics at the high school level and publicly recognizes students for outstanding achievement. […]

Drew Central EAST Lab students attended the 2007 National EAST Partnership Conference in Hot Springs where they received a superior rating for their school.
It was a full three days of work, and there were 1500 people in attendance. While there they viewed other EAST schools from Arkansas, as well as California, Pennsylvania, Hawaii, Illinois, […]

The University of Arkansas at Monticello Cotton Blossoms softball program has picked up its fourth consecutive Gulf South Conference-West Division Player of the Week award, and the second consecutive award for outfielder Jenny Dunn (Jr., Adelaide, Australia), who has been named Player of the Week for the week ending March 11.
Dunn followed last week’s fantastic […]

Nine runs was not enough offense for the University of Arkansas at Monticello Boll Weevils (2-20), as the Weevils concluded their Alabama trip with a 13-9 loss to #28 Montevallo on Tuesday at Johnson Field.
The Weevils opened scoring in the top of the first with an RBI grounder by Matt Whatley (Jr., Sachse, Texas), but […]

The University of Arkansas at Monticello recently purchased and has taken possession of a local bed and breakfast, The Trotter House. Chancellor Jack Lassiter said that the home will continue it’s operation as a bed and breakfast, among other things. The College of Technology in Crossett as well as the branch in McGehee will use […]

Kim Edmondson of the University of Arkansas at Monticello has been named the 2007 Women’s Sports Foundation/Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Graduate Assistant of the Year as selected by the Women’s Sports Foundation. The award, along with $1,000, is presented annually to a female graduate assistant coach to recognize her contributions to a collegiate women’s […]

Author and environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will deliver a free public lecture at the University of Arkansas at Monticello March 29 at 7:30 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center auditorium. A question-and-answer session and book signing will follow the lecture. No reservations are required.
The lecture is a part of the Winthrop Rockefeller Distinguished […]

The University of Arkansas at Monticello Cotton Blossoms (13-8) split a doubleheader with the University of West Georgia Wolves on Sunday at Blossoms Field, taking the opening contest 8-0 and falling 7-3 in the finale.
The Blossoms opened scoring in the first inning as Jenny Dunn (Jr., Adelaide, Australia) hit an RBI single to center, putting […]

On the heels of a highly successful senior season where he averaged 25.7 points per game, University of Arkansas at Monticello guard Nate Newell (Sr., Monticello, Ark.) has been named to the All-Gulf South Conference-West Division First Team, selected by the coaches of the Gulf South Conference.
The senior averaged 25.7 points and 2.6 rebounds per […]

In a 13-1 decisive win, the Lady Billies downed the Lady Lumberjacks in play at Warren on Tuesday afternoon. Jessica Cruce got the win giving up one run and five hits.  She also struck out 13 of 25 batters.  Jamie Moore, Kourtney Scott, and Sydney Selby batted 3/4.  The team overall had 14 hits out […]

An academic fraternity at the University of Arkansas at Monticello will be honored for excellence at the organization’s national convention March 15-17 in San Antonio, Tex.
The Zeta Chapter of Alpha Chi national collegiate honor society has been selected as one of 34 chapters nationwide to receive a Star Chapter Award honoring chapter activities during the […]

The University of Arkansas at Monticello Cotton Blossoms softball program has picked up their second consecutive Gulf South Conference-West Division Player of the Week award, as first baseman Meredith Heckel (Jr., Hot Springs, Ark.) has been named Player of the Week for the week ending February 25.
Heckel hit .571 over a two-game stretch that saw […]

In a game that was delayed twice by weather and was their season finale, the University of Arkansas at Monticello Cotton Blossoms (7-20, 3-11 GSC) dropped a 69-63 decision to the Southern Arkansas Lady Muleriders on Saturday at Steelman Fieldhouse.
Southern Arkansas opened the contest hot, pulling out to a 10-6 lead with 13:16 remaining in […]

The struggles of a family of sharecroppers against drought, a vindictive landlord and the Great Depression form the subject of a newly released novel by Dr. Cecil Haywood of Monticello, retired dean of the School of Education at the University of Arkansas at Monticello.
The novel, The Waters of Summer, is Haywood’s second book, and will […]

University of Arkansas at Monticello Cotton Blossoms slugger Becca Tipton (Fr., Monticello, Ark.) has been named Gulf South Conference-West Division Player of the Week for the week ending February 19.
Tipton has been unstoppable at the plate this season, having raised her season batting average to .436 after batting .615 this past week, going 8-for-13 with […]