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With 7 of 7 Voting Centers counted, absent and early ballots counted, here are the final, unofficial, election totals.…..

Sheriff Run-Off Election
Tim Nichols …………………………1693
Independent
James Slaughter……………………1276
Republican

According to Monticello Police Chief Jason Akers, the City of Monticello has received a grant for $32,773.38 from the Arkansas Department of Public Safety for the purchase of new Kevlar vests and vest carriers for the entire Monticello Police Department. (more…)

Morning Star Church will be partnering with Kappa Alpha Psi providing food baskets, Sunday Dec. 11 @ 4 pm in the drive thru at Morning Star. So please drive thru if you are in need or know someone. Contact number is 870-723-4496

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It has become necessary to close the Voting Center at the Southeast Arkansas Regional Library for voting on December 6, 2022 for the General Election Runoff.  The following Vote Centers will be open 7:30 am to 7:30 pm on December 6:
Ethel Hawkins Life Center/Holmes Chapel Presbyterian Church
First Assembly of God Church
First United Methodist Church
Monticello Church of Christ
Shady Grove Baptist Church
Tillar City Library
Wilmar School

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Tuesday, 289
Wednesday, 279
Thursday, 219
Friday, 365

Monday, 391

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Total, 1542

Left to Right: Dr. Britton Leggett, Lawrence Adetunji, Elizabeth Gill, Hannah Holdbrook, and Hunter Selvey

Marketing research students at the University of Arkansas at Monticello (UAM) entered a Student Research Symposium hosted by the UAM Department of Social Work. The group submitted a poster titled “Student Perceptions of Big Data, Privacy Concerns, and Data Disclosure” that won the People’s Choice award.

The marketing study surveyed students at UAM to access if their awareness of big data, as well as data disclosure, influenced their privacy concerns. Through the research, respondents indicated that perceived vulnerability positively influenced privacy concerns, and privacy concerns positively influenced self-disclosure concerns among the students surveyed. If people think their information is vulnerable on a website, their privacy concerns go up leading to an increase in their self-disclosure concerns.  (more…)