Help to promote Monticello’s Historic Downtown Business District.

Special mural design T-Shirts are now available at these great downtown retail shops:
Discount Merchandise
Honey G’s
One 11 Southern Graphics

S M L XL XXL XXXL. All sizes sell for $30.00 each

MCC  is excited to bring on board a new Golf Course Manager!

If you are energetic, highly motivated, and detail oriented, we want to talk with you! 

We are open to past experience or someone who’s eager to take their career to the next level.  (more…)

Earlier this week, Primoris  Renewable  Energy announced that they will be opening a new facility in Crossett‘s former DamFab building, producing solar panel harnesses,
for their corporate solar panel field installation industry.

It was announced that the plant will employ 40 employees within the first year, and 80 when it reaches full operation, in approximately three years.

As with all industries, good news for one Southeast Arkansas city/town, brings jobs to all of southeast Arkansas.

According to Monticello Police Chief Jason Akers, MPD responded to a hit and run vehicle accident Tuesday that led to the arrest of (more…)

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According to Monticello Police Chief Jason Akers, MPD and 1st Baptist Church of Monticello recently completed the first Senior Security Course. The course is a joint endeavor between MPD and First Baptist that is designed at providing financial, physical and home security tips, training and insight to Monticello’s senior citizens and elderly residents.

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Tanglewood area city water is off, due to a water main leak.

Crews are working on it, now, but don’t know how long the repair will take.

We’ve had questions about the “caution tape“, at the convenience store at the UAM intersection on Highway 425. It simply marks where fuel system repairs are taking place.

Please use caution, due to more traffic in their entrances, and things will return to normal, soon.

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Former treasurer of the Arkansas Court Reporters Association Michael Ashcraft pled guilty Friday, to theft of property, a Class D felony offense, stemming from charges filed by the Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, (more…)

Although clearly marked, many drivers, especially out-of-town big-rigs, travel east from the wrong lane, on Gaines Street at the Square.