The Monticello Middle School eighth-grade volleyball team made history this past Saturday. That’s because this particular ...

Twelve wrestlers from Monticello Middle School competed in the Class A IESA State Wrestling Tournament on Friday, March 13, ...

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Fraternal Lodge #58 was awarded a Gold Award the annual Grand Lodge of Illinois Free and Accepted Masons meeting. This award is given annually to lodges that participate in the Award of Excellence ...

Illinois agriculture faces no shortage of challenges: from volatile markets to rising input costs to increasingly unpredictable weather. What receives far less attention is the quiet infrastructure ...

When drama advisor Nicki Graham picks a spring musical for Monticello High School, she looks at a lot of different criteria. She looks at the number of actors the group has and their strengths. She ...

In January 2026 the Monticello Police Department dealt with 67 criminal offenses, 5 follow up investigations and 12 911 calls. They gave 52 written warnings and three verbal warnings. The department ...

The Piatt County Sheriff will host a Community Blood Drive with ImpactLife, the provider of blood components for local hospitals. The blood drive will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 25 at ...

For more information about our programming please visit our events calendar at www.allertonpubliclibrary.org or call us at (217) 762-4676. Lap Time, Wednesdays, March 4th, 11th and 25th at 9:30 a.m.

I started doing pushups to try to get back into shape. Well, I did one pushup. It’s a start. I wasn’t inspired to exercise by the Olympics going on, although I am pretty competitive when it comes to ...

The Monticello School District is hiring an Assistant HIgh School Principal. The job was posted to https://www.illinoiseducationjobbank.org in February. Superintendent Adam Clapp said that the ...