Full size futon for sale.

Just like brand new, only slept on twice.

Bought at Walmart for $300, sell for $150.

Middle pulls down for cup holders, great for a game room.

Very comfortable.

Call/text 870-926-7488.

Dell Windows 7 Desk top For Sale

Dell Ultra Slim 23″ LED LCD Monitor – LCD Flat Panel Displays. $150
Modem: $125
Altec Lansing Speakers: $20
Includes keyboard and all hook up cords. Bought 3 Christmases ago and didn’t use it like I thought. It wasn’t used but a few times. Been in storage and taken care of.

Asking $250 for everything or can be sold separately.

Call/Text 870.723.0577 for more information and/pics

Monticello Kiwanis had a wrapping party, Wednesday, to provide Christmas for a family in Drew County.

There are 5 small children and they also provided them with kid friendly food. this is one of many projects that Kiwanis does for Drew County Kids.

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Thanks to a MLive reader for sharing this photo of 2 bald eagles, resting in the trees in northern Drew County, Monday morning

Blake Wilson & Mariah Jenkins

Drew Central fourth graders eagerly took on the Christmas STEM Challenge “Candy Cane Calamity”.  STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and math.  Students worked in teams and designed and built a way to safely “mail” two candy canes in one paper bag package without breakage.  Students were required to follow criteria and constraints. Once the packages were complete, students weighed them in grams and used a grams to ounces converter website.  Next, they used Chromebooks and researched FedEx, USPS, etc. rates to mail their packages to Santa at the North Pole aka Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole.   (more…)

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As Santa Claus said to the M&M characters, “they do exist!;”  and so do the auditors for the City of Monticello.

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Around 11 AM, Friday morning, the driver of this Mazda 3 attempted to pass a truck on highway 278 E., unaware that in front of the truck she was passing was a FedEx truck that was turning left.

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Tuesday morning, just before lunch, the driver of this SUV was leaving  District Court, when she backed off the parking lot ledge.

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SeaArk Boats, an aluminum boat manufacturer is looking for a temporary Industrial Engineer. Preferred qualifications are a four (4) year post-secondary degree with a focus in IE, strong lean manufacturing experience especially in continuous improvement, elimination of waste, 5S, Kaizen events, ability to initiate, plan, direct and execute process improvement projects, excellent organizational skills, ability to work with minimum direction and coordinate multiple projects simultaneously. (more…)

As the summer of 2016 unfolded, two different charities found themselves struggling to help those in need.

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