These videos were recorded Monday night at the Political Forum hosted by the Southeast Arkansas TEA Party and Monticellolive.com.

These videos were recorded Monday night at the Political Forum hosted by the Southeast Arkansas TEA Party and Monticellolive.com.

At the very end of Monday night’s Tea Party political forum, Priscilla Copelin Abernathy questioned the two men involved in the incident discussed in social media where her supporters had taken down a Laurie Bridewell sign on video. After their presentation, one of the moderators asked if anyone wanted to comment, but the other candidate had left the building.

These videos were taken at Monday’s Political Animals meeting in Monticello.

Effective 1/1/2020, the Drew County one cent road tax is no longer being collected.

The state sent a letter out in October, but we just want to re-mind everyone collecting sales tax of the new rates.

The old rate was 9.75 cents in Monticello.

The new rate is 8.75 cents in Monticello.

In the county, the new rate is 7.75 cents.

Judge Robert Akin announced that Drew County has been declared as a disaster area, due to the recent tornadoes and related damage.

Akin also announced that the Drew County fairgrounds will have a tree and limb collection site, between the animal barn and rodeo arena.

The area will be open to public dumping of foliage (only) from 7 AM – 5:30 PM Monday through Saturday.

No construction or building materials or scrap will be allowed.

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Drew county courthouse and landfill will be closed on Wednesday.

Wednesday’s sanitation route will be run on Tuesday.

Happy New Year!

The Drew County Quorum Court will Meet at 10 am, in the old library, to discuss and Approve a Re-Vote on Continuation of Penny County Road Tax.

During Monday night’s special called quorum court meeting, JP‘s asked several questions about the Regional Jail‘s policies, regulations and procedures, especially the contract with the state and counties.

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