Monticello’s Tree Board will be leading a combined Arbor Day and Tree City USA celebration at Lake Monticello’s Hunger Run Access on Saturday, March 19th, 2016 from 11:00 AM until 2:00 PM.
Activities begin at 11:00 AM with planting and mulching trees. At noon, there will be a Proclamation by Mayor Tucker, a poem read by 4-H, and tree facts given by local scouts. Hot dogs or hamburgers will be served at 12:30 PM. From 1:00 PM until 2:00 PM, family and children nature activities are planned, along with a Tree Clinic to help with tree questions.
Come make Lake Monticello more beautiful, learn about the importance of trees, and enjoy good food and fun family activities. Stay later to enjoy fishing, hiking, and exploring on your own at your local lake. For more information, contact Hope Bragg at (870) 224-5478.
The 10th Drug Task Force, along with Dumas and McGehee Police officers executed a search warrant Friday at a southeast Arkansas residence, 
For at least the third time in 36 hours, a driver decided that the road closed sign did not apply to them, but found soon out they were wrong.
According to Sheriff Mark Gober, around 3 am, the driver of this Woodfield Trucking (Camden) big rig was traveling east on Highway 35, in the Grace Loop area, near Dermott, when he drove around a Road Closed sign.
ACSO reports that you can not get to Bastrop from Ashley County, neither Highway 425 South or Highway 133 South.
Governor Asa Hutchinson has issued disaster declarations for 11 counties following severe storms across much of Arkansas this week that caused heavy flooding and damage throughout the state.
Thursday, the Monticello Police Department, Arkansas State Police Criminal Investigation Unit, U.S. Marshall Service and Arkansas Probation and Parole conducted Operation “Safe Watch”.
Around 5 PM, Thursday evening, the Arkansas Midland railroad track, between Monticello and Dermott, washed out due to the heavy floodwaters.
In September, 2013, the City of Monticello granted a contract to Siemens for the installation of approximately 4,300 new water meters city-wide, and for the replacement of some of the old water mains in the core of the City and construction of other water system infrastructure. Mayor Allen Maxwell died on March 10, 2014, before any work on the project had commenced. Within a couple of days following the death of Mayor Maxwell, Siemens made demand on the City for payment of approximately $5 Million, and payment of that money was made by the City to Siemens on the day of Mayor Maxwell’s funeral. The funds came from a revenue bond borrowing done by the City to finance the project. Work on installation of the water meters then began, and a couple of months later Siemens made another demand for payment of approximately $2 Million, and that was paid by the City to Siemens.
Tuesday, in a US District Courtroom in Little Rock, Judge D. P. Marshall threw out the Siemens case against the City of Monticello.
The Hardwood Federation has elected Tommy Maxwell, President and CEO of Maxwell Flooring in Monticello, as the chair of the Hardwood Federation Public Action Committee Board of Directors.
