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The choirs of First Presbyterian Church and Wood Avenue Presbyterian Church joined the Rose Hill Comberland Presbyterian Church coir, as has become a local tradition, for their combined Christmas cantata.
This year’s presentation, He Is Here, is directed by Frank Ferguson.
UAM’s student activity board sponsored a unique activity Wednesday night; “Ice skating at UAM.”
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The Drew County Courthouse and Road Department will be closed December, 24th 25th and 26th in observance of the Christmas holiday.
Sanitation route will run as follows: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday route will run the normal route. Thursday route will run on Friday.
Have a Merry Christmas,
Judge Robert Akin
Mr. Cliff Gibson, a local attorney hired by the City of Monticello to assist them in resolving problems with Siemens Industries Corporation, addressed the City Council at their meeting Thursday evening.
Earlier in the day, Mr. Gibson had submitted a 13 page report on his findings thus far in his investigation of Siemens and its arrangement with the City of Monticello to refurbish the City’s antiquated water system.
Dear Mayor Rogers and Members of the City Council:
We write to provide you with a status report on the subject matter. We encourage you to re-review our earlier correspondence on this subject.
You will recall that we wrote Siemens in behalf of the City on November 6, 2014, relative to several failures of Siemens’ earlier response to address the legitimate concerns of the City of Monticello respecting the project, and in which we called them to task for falsely accusing Mayor Maxwell of having directed that Sensus water meters be used instead of the Hersey meters specified by the contract. Read the rest of this entry »
Lost: Red and Black Razorback backpack.
Lost Tuesday, Dec 16, at the MMS band concert.
Bag contained clothes, a contact case, and cologne.
If found please call 723-6087 and ask for Leslie.
Thursday night the Monticello City Council accepted the bid of the Monticello Economic Development Commission, better known as the MEDC, of $280,617 for economic development services to the city over P.F. Mays & Associates, LLC’s bid of $264,000.
The problem for that decision, (which has no correct answer) comes back to the way the contract was advertised in its legal annoumcement.
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At last week’s City Council budget committee meeting, the group discussed budget items that could be cost-shared with the county.
One of these items was the “man on the hill” at the transfer station. This city employee operates the compactor the presses the (city and county’s) trash, after it is dumped from the trash trucks.
Drs. John Jerius and Michelle Pittman, a husband and wife surgical team, are now a part of the Drew Memorial Hospital staff.
They’ve recently received their Arkansas medical license, and began work at DMH over the weekend, following their move to Arkansas from Louisiana..
The Country Store Restaurant in Selma has re-opened, serving fish and fixins’ on Fridays and Saturdays from 4:30 to 9:00 pm.
Please come and join us for catfish and all the trimmings.
Happy Holidays to all.Thank you, The Hollands.

The quorum court, Monday night, a “tax rebate” for Zilka Biomass, for the construction of their new industrial site, on HWY 35 East.
The Monticello School Board met at Tuesday, December 16 for their regular monthly meeting with 5 members present.
W. J. McKiever has been appointed to serve on the Drew County Quorum Court, by Gov. Mike Beebe, filling the remaining and upcoming terms of Billie Gober-Farrell.
Love Andrea, Farrah, Michael, Sidney, Andy and Danny
We all love you so much.
After years of struggling with low county revenues, the Drew County Quorum Court approved raises, Monday night for all county employees.
Certified sheriff’s deputies will a receive a larger raise, bringing them closer to “a level playing field” with other law-enforcement agencies in the area.
Saturday, the Drew County Sheriffs Office took a report in reference to two Harley Davidson motorcycles being stolen.
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