Students from Discovery Children’s Center visited the Couthouse and  Town Square, Wednesday, singing Christmas Carols. The annual field trip has been a highlight for 3, 4, and 5 year olds for several years.

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Dear Santa,
I have been very helpful and I was usually nice.Santa can you please give me a XBox 360 Kinect and a 3DS.Can you give a game for each please.CAN I get another sleigh bell too.AND the movie Santa Paws 2 THE SANTA PUPS.PLEASE!I will promise to be good everywhere if you give me these things. PLEASE!I will BELIEVE FOREVER Santa Claus.PROMISE!
LOVE,
RAYMOND CARMINE
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(From 1967)
Dear Santa Claus,
I am in the second grade.
I want a bicycle and a box of candy.
I’m good sometimes and sometimes I am bad.

Your friend,
Sanders

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During Saturday morning’s “Shop with a Cop” sponsored by Walmart, Monticello Police officers took 23 children and teenagers shopping at Walmart, with $100 to spend on each one of them.

The officer that was with one 10 year old boy asked him,  “Where do you want to start.”  Most kids would answer toys or games, but this child’s reply was, “I want to buy my Mommy something for Christmas.”  He wanted to buy her jewelry, so they went to that department and picked out a ring for her.

Next the officer asked him, “What do you want to get now.”  His reply was, “I want to buy me something to wear for Christmas,” so off the clothes they went.

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Happy 18th birthday to my beautiful baby girl!!

Love, mom & Lyle

A group of students from Head of the Class Childcare & Learning Center visited Belleview Nursing Center, Wednesday, to sing Christmas carols and deliver Christmas cards to the residents.

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Around 8:30, Saturday, Drew County Sheriff’s Deputies and the Monticello Rescue Squad were dispatched to the report of a single vehicle wreck, where the driver was pinned inside of his Dodge pick-up, after striking a large tree.

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Happy 18th Birthday to ShaTorya “Tootie ” Shepard.

Your a grown lady now, but your still Moma’s Baby.

Love truly,

Your mother.

Southeast Arkansas Community Action Corporation will begin taking applications for the FY’2013 LI-HEAP Winter Regular Assistance Program on January 07, 2013 thru March 30, 2013 or until funds are depleted. The program is designed to assist low-income households with home energy related emergency situations. The following information is needed to determine eligibility:

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Ruby Burton, leader of the local Humane Society, spoke to the Monticello City Council, Thursday night about the problem with pit bull dogs, and their care, inside of the Monticello city limits.

A child had her ankle broken and other injuries, less than a month ago, in an incident covered statewide TV.

Burton estimated that there are  400 -500 pit bulls in East End, with many of them being hid by their owners.  She also mentioned a problem with pit bulls in the Indian Mounds area.

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