Monticello Live

Minutes after 6 AM, parents of drew Central middle school students received a phone call notifying them of a social media thread made against the school. Text messages were also sent out.

The Monticello Rotary Club members are leaders in the community and serve as role models for students.  Each week, members read a book to students and students interview the members using questions they wrote in advance.  In addition, students received their own copy of THE BFG by Roald Dahl to explore examples of a master writer using figurative language techniques studied this year.  Books were a gift from a member, Dr. Louis James. (more…)

Keep Arkansas Beautiful visited Monticello and Drew Central Elementary Schools last week and brought Otto the Otter to visit with kids, hand out coloring books and talk to them about keeping Monticello clean.

Mayor Akers is encouraging a city wide clean up on March 24th and 25th. On the 24th, city employees will pick up litter and trash in town and any institution wanting to help on Saturday the 25th can contact City Hall to arrange a time to obtain clean up materials furnished by Keep Arkansas Beautiful.

So far, several Churches have volunteered to help on the 25th, including Morning Star Missionary Baptist, Church of Christ, The Revival Center and Immanuel Baptist.

Drew Central third grade teacher, Emily Howard, was surprised this morning, when Arkansas Governor Sarah, Huckabee Sanders, along with Arkansas department of education representatives, presented her with the Milken educator reward, for excellence in teaching.

She is the first Drew County recipient of the honor.

MLive plans to post video of the event tomorrow in the morning news.

Drew Central Elementary, the Drew Central Preschool and the DC PTO continued the tradition of the “Cookies with Santa” event Friday, December 2, from 6:00-8:00 p.m. in the Drew Central Multi-Purpose Building.  This family event has always been a free event for families and includes lots of games, cake walk, pictures with Santa, free hot cocoa, free books, cookie decorating, and many other fun activities. (more…)

The Travel Club will hold a parent information and enrollment meeting on Tuesday, Oct 18 at 5:30pm at Drew Central Elementary room 403 for 9 days Education Ireland Tour June 2024.  (more…)

Drew Central EAST Program has some exciting news to share with Monticello! We have been working with Dr. Kathy King, a local artist, author, and songwriter, who has published a lullaby book titled, “Lullabies and Lovesongs”. It contains her personal artwork, original songs, and guitar chords to play along. Our EAST students, Jacob Bennett and Gracie Dison, have been working directly with Dr. King and she has asked our students to create and design a website for her book release. The students have published the website with Dr. King’s blessing!

www.lullabybook2020.com

Dr. King will be holding her first book signing at the Monticello Coffee Company located at 316 Hwy 425, Monticello, AR 71655 on Saturday, September 24, 2022 from 10 AM to 12 PM. We invite the community to come meet and greet our students along with other partners that have helped Dr. King in this endeavor.

Drew Central will have school, Today, in spite of the widespread power outage.

Buses will run and classes will start at regular time.