Although we haven’t had official confirmation, Monticello school buses are leaving on their routes, starting shortly after 6 AM, this morning, which implies that school will be meeting at regular schedule, today.

Drew Central will have school, Today, in spite of the widespread power outage.

Buses will run and classes will start at regular time.

According to Entergy, at 4:43, a fault occurred between Warren and Monticello causing an outage to approximately 3372 customers.

Entergy is actively working to restore service to all customers as soon as possible.

Entergy estimates a restoration time of 9:30 AM, for all customers.

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At 8:04 PM, Labor Day evening, just before light rain began to fall in the area, the Monticello Fire Department was paged out to the report of a woods fire, caused by a tree limb falling on a powerline and igniting grass in the area, which spread. MFD quickly responded and extinguish the fire, with no injuries or substantial property damage. Photo courtesy of firefighters association.

on August 10, members of the Drew County Sheriff’s Dept. and an agent with the Arkansas Parole and Probation conducted a welfare check of a residence on Brixie Road. (more…)

Front row (left to right): Jodie Efird, chief nursing officer at DMHS; Scott Barrilleaux, chief executive officer of DMHS; and Dr. Peggy Doss, chancellor of UAM. Middle row (left to right): Dr. Brandy Haley, dean of the UAM School of Nursing; and Stephanie Norris, administrative liaison at DMHS. Back row (left to right): Crystal Halley, vice chancellor of Academic Affairs at UAM; and Ben Barton, president of the Drew Memorial Health Foundation.

Recently, leaders of the University of Arkansas at Monticello (UAM) and Drew Memorial Health System (DMHS) gathered on the UAM campus for a scholarship signing. (more…)