Monticello News

DADD LUNCHEON AND BAKE SALE Defensive Action Against Drugs will have a luncheon and bake sale on Saturday March 20 at the DADD Fishing, Hunting and Boating Swap Meet.

On Tuesday, March 09, 2010, at approximately 4:30 PM the Kentucky State Police, Post 11 London received a report of a two vehicle traffic crash, with injury, on KY 90 in Wayne County.

Monticello City Council met in regular session on Monday evening and authorized the fire department to apply for Assistance to Firefighters Grant funding.

Two men were arrested on Friday, February 26, after an active meth lab was discovered in a residence on Raines Road in Wayne County.

Wayne County Fiscal Court met in regular session on Thursday, February 18 and approved the financial reports for the calendar year for the Sheriff1s Office and the Clerk1s Office.

Two men were arrested last week after officials discovered a meth lab at a residence on Highway 167.

Telling others about the great things this community has to offer should come naturally to Marilyn Hensley.

Four people were arrested on Thursday, February 11 after officers discovered two active meth labs on Ridgewood Avenue.

The Monticello Fire Department has received a Homeland Security Grant totaling $64,470, according to an announcement made last week by Mayor Kenneth Catron.

Patriot Industries, a Monticello-based U.S. military supplier, has laid off more than 80 workers because of a drop-off in orders.

TOUR Southern and Eastern Kentucky will hold a community meeting concerning "The Big South Fork Gateway Circuit of Trails " February 11 at 3:30 p.m. The meeting will be held at the ASPIRE Center, 225 Highway 1275, Monticello, Ky.

There will be a familiar figure and a familiar face on the Saturday, February 20 edition of KET's Kentucky Life.

W.C. HORSEMAN'S ASSOCIATION MEETS FIRST FRIDAY OF EACH MONTH The Wayne County Horseman's Association would like to invite you to join them on the first Friday of each month at 6:30 p.m. in the conference room of the Wayne County Library.

The one-room Griffin School in rural Monticello, Ky., with no electricity and a coal pile out front, became the first integrated public school in the state - and by some accounts in the nation - on July 18, 1955.

Wayne Countians were digging out early this week from a winter storm that hit the area Friday night and Saturday.

The Monticello Police Department has identified one of the two men they are seeking in connection with the robbery and assault of a local barber.

Thousands of temporary jobs designed to help with the 2010 U.S. Census are coming to southern Kentucky.

Q Carrie Underwood has come so far since winning her American Idol title in 2005.

At press time, authorities from around the region were on the lookout for two men suspected in a Wayne County armed robbery.

Gov. Steve Beshear stunned many lawmakers Jan. 19 by proposing to balance the next two-year budget with $780 million of revenue from video lottery terminals at race tracks - a proposal that has failed in the past and prospects for which look bleak now.