Monticello Live

The Drew County Courthouse & Road Department will be closed on Wednesday, November 25, Thursday, November 26, and Friday, November 27, in observance of the Thanksgiving Holiday.

No trash routes will run these days. Monday and Tuesday routes will run as normal.

No community dumpsters will be put out this year due to the abuse of overfilling and dumping on the ground last year.

The County Landfill is closed until further notice. The Landfill is, however, accepting metal ONLY. Please call the sanitation office at 870-460-6293 before going to the landfill. This pertains to the County landfill only.
For any additional questions, please do not hesitate to call.

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The City of Monticello has water main repairs taking place on East College. Jackson, Pauline, Conley and surrounding areas.

Some customers are without water, while the repairs are taking place.

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Congrats to the following students for making the Junior Region 3-East All-Region Choir:

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EHC Scholarship Committee Co-chairs pose with 2020 scholarship winners (L to R): Braden Taylor, Bree-Anne Lanthrip, Claudia Horton, Trenton Eubanks, and Dr Kay Walter

In a typical year, Drew County Extension Homemakers Clubs will award either a local graduating senior entering UAM or student currently studying there an academic scholarship, but 2020 has not been a typical year. In late spring when the EHC Scholarship Committee called for applications, local students had already been sent home to learn remotely. They struggled to compile the necessary documents and signatures which EHC requires for the scholarship application, and EHC extended their deadline to encourage students to complete the applications.

In the end, EHC received the strongest group of applications the scholarship committee has ever seen. The number of bright and promising young people in our community presented an exciting challenge. Choosing just one from among them to receive the scholarship seemed an impossible task. The committee could see that the viral pandemic has resulted in ever-growing monetary need among the families of young people seeking an education. (more…)

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2012 Honda Insight

191,000 miles and gets 40 plus miles to the gallon.

Two owner vehicle, clean on the inside, and new tires were put on it within the last year (approximately 5,000 miles on them).

Only getting rid of it because needed something bigger.

Can be seen in Hamburg.

Serious inquiries only, please.

Please call 870-831-2432 or 870-500-1699.

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