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First Assembly of God Church youth focus for the month of July is “Identity Crisis – Who am I supposed to be?”

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Come join us at Enon Baptist Church for VBS
“A New Creature”
July 27 – August 1
From 6–8:30 pm
Therefore if any man be in Christ he is a new creature old things are passed away :
Behold all things become new. 2 Corinthians
Come be transformed by the Word of God!!
For more information please call 870-814-7482
For bus travel please call 870-723-9701

Air-Evac Lifeteam, a helicopter ambulance service that serves Drew County, has closed their Camden base.

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The Monticello City Council recently approved the next step in the process of remodeling the senior citizen center, located near City Park.

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I want to thank all my campaign’s supporters; and congratulate all the candidates who ran in this Special Election for their efforts in Opening a community-wide conversation on several important municipal Issues.

Monticello has seen some major progress over the past years, and much of our community’s hard work and efforts will be rewarded in the next coming weeks with a major jobs announcement.

We have only begun to reach our full potential here in Monticello, I look forward to the bright future head and am eager for November’ Regular Election with hopes that we, as a community, can finally continue forward together.

A MLive reader took this photo of sunflowers, only recent trip to McGehee.

Thanks for sharing it.

Happy 4th Birthday Destiny

We love You

From Mommy, TeTe, Chaneka, and Kaylee

Happy 2nd Birthday, Mary Virginia!

We love you!

From Mommy, Daddy, and John Mark

With all 5 boxes counted,
Here are the final, but unofficial vote totals for mayor of Monticello….
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Monticello Schools now have School Connect

Monticello School District today announced the release of a new, district wide mobile communications application from School Connect.

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The Monticello School Board met Tuesday evening, July 15 for their regularly scheduled meeting with all members present.

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MYSA is looking for team sponsors for the 2014 MYSA soccer season. The team sponsorship cost is $150.00 and will include your business name on the front of your team jersey.

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First of all I would like to thank everyone that participated in the runoff election today. I want to thank all the people that worked so hard for me and supported me. This vote of confidence is very humbling and I will do my very best to represent all the people of Monticello.

We are facing some major challenges here in Monticello with the water issue. This is a very important and expensive issue facing us and we need to meet this with unity of purpose and insure that the best interests of all the citizens of Monticello are best served. I will work with the city council, the municipal league and our attorney to insure the best resolution of this situation.

The door of the mayor’s office will always be open. I invite your opinion and I need your continued support in the days and weeks ahead.

Recently we ran a story, posted below, about two Little Rock who men were reportedly shoplifting fishing gear from Walmart, and then arrested near Lake Monticello. That story has recently taken a very unusual twist.

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