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Drew County Circuit Clerk Beverly Burks of Wilmar has announced her candidacy for re-election in the 2016 general election. Burks, a Democrat, is currently serving her first year in office.
Prior to taking office in January, Burks worked two years as a deputy clerk in the Drew County Clerk’s office and served as editor of the Advance-Monticellonian for 14 years.
Thursday night’s open meeting about Drew Memorial Hospital’s proposed 1/4 cent extension of the expiring 1/2 cent library tax provided a chance for members of the public to meet the new surgeons, as well as hear updated statistics on surgery, and see the drawings of the new facility.
The question & answer session was also informative, especially dealing with the current 40 year old operating room.
In an update to a story MLive covered, Tuesday morning, posted here are photos of the clean-up of the wreckage of a loaded Riceland tank truck, 2 miles south of Winchester on HWY 65.
Congratulations to Keith Wallis, the Ryburn Automotive Salesman of the month for October.
Stop by Ryburns and see one of our friendly sales staff members for that new or like-new vehicle you’ve been wanting.
Graphic photo posted on attached link, below.
At 3:30 pm, Thursday, a Monticello man was killed and 2 other residents injured, in a head on collision, eas of Monticello.
According to SalineRiverChronicle, during a meeting that lasted a little over one hour, the Southeast Arkansas Intermodal Authority had a detailed discussion of how the Authority will pay off an estimated $600,000.00 to $700,000.00 loan that will be owed once all state and federal grants are expended.
Longtime Monticello business owner Tommy Newman filed, Wednesday, to run for City Council Ward 2 Position 1.
That seat is currently held by former county treasurer Carolyn Brow Read the rest of this entry »
Jerald Clarke, a veteran officer with the Monticello Police Dept. has filed to run as an independant candidate for the office of Drew County Sheriff, against Sheriff Mark Gober.
Since Gober is runing for re-election as a democrat, the2 candidates won’t go before voters until November, 2016.
Tuesday night, Mayor Zack Tucker accepted a check for $1,500 of grant dollars presented to the City by local operations supervisor Juerga “Smitty” Smith on behalf CenterPoint Read the rest of this entry »
County sheriff Mark Gober was the first candidate to file for reelection, at noon, Monday. Gober is seeking reelection.
Justice of the Peace for District 7, Patty Mitchell, was next, filing to maintain her seat on the county quorum court.
County Judge Robert Akin, an Independent, wasthe only non-– Democrat to file, Monday.
Other candidates filing included;
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Thursday, Monticello Parks Committee member & Miracle League President Karen Connelley was joined by future Miracle League players to present to the Arkansas Outdoor Recreation Grant Committee in Jacksonville, AR to request $250,000 of grant funding to help Monticello build our field of dreams.
The Miracle League Field will be first handicap accessible baseball field in Southeast Arkansas. Grant winners will be announced in December.
Drew County Judge Robert Akin has announced that he will be seeking a third term in the general election in November 2016. Akin, an independent, was first elected in 2012.
The Drew County Yard of the Month for September, 2015 was: Chris and Ashley Weast, at 175 McKnight Drive.
Their yard was selected as the winner by the Town and Country Garden Club.
Yard of the Month is presented by the Chamber of Commerce.
MonticelloLive is posting a few non-spooky photos from businesses, today.
Grand Manor’s staff were impressive, serving all of their residents breakfast in costume.
The other photo city workers, this morning.
Regardless how creative your costume is, Saturday, you may need an umbrella (or steel chair) to stay dry.
A 90% chance of rain, decreasing took 50% chance during the night, is forecast.
Pictured here are:
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According to AshleyCountyLedger.com, this photo shows workers lifting four train cars back onto the Arkansas Louisiana Mississippi tracks, Wednesday, near Unity Road in Crossett.
For more information, go to AshleyCountyLedger.com
Tuesday night’s City Council meeting interaction between Mayor Zack Tucker and Alderman Cedric Leonard was the lead story, Wednesday, with a video that has been viewed 1,700 times. The topic of the heated discusion was whether the mayor was legally allowed to cast a tie-breaking vote in the special called council meeting, which sent the $10 million event center proposal the voters on December 8.
That video, along with updates to the issues involved are linked, above.
The day continued with the campaign kick-off event for Yes for Monticello, which will be posted later today.
Salon Hello Beautiful would like to welcome Ashley Herring Cruce to the team.
So come in and make her feel welcome.
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“I wanted to take time today, to apologize for how I reacted to Alderman Leonard’s questioning last night at City Council. It was unprofessional. I was not prepared to make a statement about an issue of that gravity and technical nature, without researching the statue and being able to make a fully informed definitive statement; as I have asked Mr. Barton to do this morning. Read the rest of this entry »
Wednesday letter from City Attorney to City Council Members.
Last night, Councilman Leonard questioned the legality of the moayor’s vote to break a tie at the special meeting held to consider the referral to the electors of a sales tax to fund a proposed civic center.
After all of the agenda items, at Tuesay night’s City Council meeting, alderman Cedric Leonard began asking questions about the legality of the previous meetings vote to pass on to voters a 1/4 cent sales tax to be used for an event center, specificly, was it legal for the mayor to cast the deciding vote at a special called meeting.
Just minutes after their 10 PM closing time, Sonic, located on 425 N. was robbed at gun-point, Sunday night.
Around 12:15, this morning, a Drew County Sheriff’s deputy on patrol, noticed a speeding vehicle on HWY 83 N., near Garnett Road. Read the rest of this entry »
Monday, representatives of Zilkha Bio-Mass were in Monticello, working to finalize steps leading to the construction of their black pellet biofuel production facility in the industrial complex.
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