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…)

This Ohio license plate was spotted a few days ago in Monticello.

Siri says the capital of Ohio is 781 miles away.

Christina Harding is the new Executive Assistant/Small Business Liaison for the Monticello Economic Development Commission office. Christina assists the Director with the daily administration duties and speaks with small business owners of this community. (more…)

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