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3 Car Crash on 278 West at River

December 17th, 2016 by iPhone

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Christmas Lights

December 16th, 2016 by iPhone

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Former County OEM Director Found Guilty of Theft

December 16th, 2016 by iPhone

A former Drew County office of emergency management director accused of a combination of mismanagement and theft of property causing a total loss of an estimated $103,000 from a local business, was found guilty of theft of property, Thursday, by a Drew County Circuit Court.

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UPDATE – Severe Burns to Resident in Home Fire

December 16th, 2016 by iPhone

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Help Fill Santa’s Sleigh for JA at Ryburns

December 16th, 2016 by iPhone

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Kiwanis Christmas

December 15th, 2016 by iPhone

Monticello Kiwanis had a wrapping party, Wednesday, to provide Christmas for a family in Drew County.

There are 5 small children and they also provided them with kid friendly food. this is one of many projects that Kiwanis does for Drew County Kids.

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Commercial Bank Christmas Open House, Today

December 15th, 2016 by Submitted

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Wrecked Truck in Florence Rd. Creek

December 14th, 2016 by iPhone

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MMS Madrigals- Christmas Carols at School Board – Video

December 13th, 2016 by iPhone

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2 Bald Eagles Seen in North Drew County

December 13th, 2016 by iPhone

Thanks to a MLive reader for sharing this photo of 2 bald eagles, resting in the trees in northern Drew County, Monday morning

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Rebates at Outfitters Rx til 12/31/16

December 13th, 2016 by iPhone

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DC Elementary Participated In Christmas STEM Challenge

December 13th, 2016 by Drew Central Schools

Blake Wilson & Mariah Jenkins

Drew Central fourth graders eagerly took on the Christmas STEM Challenge “Candy Cane Calamity”. STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and math. Students worked in teams and designed and built a way to safely “mail” two candy canes in one paper bag package without breakage. Students were required to follow criteria and constraints. Once the packages were complete, students weighed them in grams and used a grams to ounces converter website. Next, they used Chromebooks and researched FedEx, USPS, etc. rates to mail their packages to Santa at the North Pole aka Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole. Read the rest of this entry »

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City Auditors Working on ’13,’14, & ’15 Audits at City Hall

December 12th, 2016 by iPhone

As Santa Claus said to the M&M characters, “they do exist!;” and so do the auditors for the City of Monticello.

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Recent Wreck 1

December 12th, 2016 by iPhone

Around 11 AM, Friday morning, the driver of this Mazda 3 attempted to pass a truck on highway 278 E., unaware that in front of the truck she was passing was a FedEx truck that was turning left.