This morning‘s thunderstorm may have moved out of the area, to some extent, but it left trees down all across Drew County, blocking roads. Drew County sheriffs deputies are responding to reports of trees down, like this one is totally Blocking Pumpkin Center, Road, southwest of Monticello. State, county, and city workers are responding to all reports, doing what they can to clear the roadways, or at least marked them with cones, due to flooding
It also left several roads underwater, with levels rising. Hwy 278, near Dead Man’s Curve, McCloy St. and Gaines St. are underwater, as well as many other areas, such as the Creekwood area, shown in this photo.
The University of Arkansas at Monticello (UAM) is set to offer the state of Arkansas’s only online Master of Science in nursing (MSN) degree with an emphasis in public health after the Institutional Actions Council of the Higher Learning Commission recently approved the proposed program. 
Ashley Marshall of Monticello, a nursing major at South Arkansas Community College, has accepted a Melba Tatom Nursing Endowed Scholarship to attend the school this fall.
