According to Sheriff Mark Gober, on Sunday, June 28, 2015 at approximately 7:30 p.m. members of the Drew County Sheriff’s Office, Monticello Rescue / Dive Team, Arkansas Game & Fish and MASI Ambulance Service were dispatched to Lake Monticello (Hunger Run Access) to a vehicle running off into the lake. Read the rest of this entry »



















At 9:40, Wednesday morning, the Monticello Fire Dept. was dispatched to the report of a fire at Intetfor, formerly known as Price Lumber.
Monticello 6U TeeBall All Stars won the 2015 State Championship, in Stuttgart last Weekend.
The local nurse, who was being sought in connection with the alleged April illegal abortion of a local woman was arrested Friday, on a warrant out of the Drew County Circuit Court.
Friday morning, the Arkansas State Police learned the a Virginia murder suspect was believed to be in southeast Arkansas. Here is the report from ASP’s Bill Sadler.
Monticello Fire and Police Departments quickly responded to the call of a van on fire, located near All Time Fitness, behind Walmart, at 8:45, Saturday morning.
A local man was arrested, Thursday, on the probable charge of sexual indecency of a child, for events that took place, Sunday.

HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY 24th BIRTHDAY,
At 12:49, Wednesday afternoon, Monticello firefighters were paged to a fire at Monticello Recycling, better known as the “Old Burlington plant” on Jackson Street.
The board members including the Junior Fair Board and volunteers of the Drew County Livestock Show and Fair Association would like to thank
Drew County OEM and American Signal will be conducting Storm Warning Siren testing, again, today.
The Monticello 9 year old All-Star team won the Arkansas USSSA All-Star State Championship over the weekend.

At 11:41, Monday night, the Montecilo Fire Dept. was paged out to Lakewood Etates, were a home was fully engulfed in flames up on their arrival.
If spending Father’s Day without water was an inconvenience for your family, it could have been worse.

Everyone has their individual “precious memories” of their father, including me.
Jay Jones, UAM’s interim chancellor, and a deacon at First Baptist Church, has been 












