April 24, 2024
TL School Board explains tax referendum in first of two informational meetings The first of two scheduled informational meetings was...
April 24, 2024
Three military veterans from Monticello who served during the Vietnam War era were part of the 26th Honor Flight of...
April 24, 2024
The City of Monticello received a resignation letter from Courtney Dyer, the mobile integrated health nurse who developed the Project...
April 24, 2024
The county council heard a presentation by individuals representing the Monticello - Union Township Library regarding their request for a...
April 17, 2024
A group of family, friends and well-wishers helped WWII veteran John Brim celebrate his 102nd birthday Friday, April 12, at...
By Cheri Shelhart nreditor@hoosiermediagroup.com | April 24, 2024
MONTICELLO — The City Council of Monticello approved the second request by Ken Prieboy for the Tuesday Night Cruisers to...
April 24, 2024
Court Records April 15 - 19 SUPERIOR COURT CRIMINAL CASES April 15 State of Indiana v. Michael A. Storz: Class...
April 24, 2024
White County Arrest Log April 12 - 19 April 12 Veronica V. Reyes, 32, of Monticello, was arrested on a...
By Cheri Shelhart nreditor@hoosiermediagroup.com | April 24, 2024
INDIANAPOLIS — Jenna McCormick, a 20-year old who graduated from Frontier in 2021, began having problems with fatigue while in...
By W.C. Madden nrreporter@hoosiermediagroup.com | April 24, 2024
While spring officially began on March 19, the weather prevented it from really feeling like spring until last week. The...
April 24, 2024
NORTH WHITE/ROSSVILLE/ PIONEER 4/16/24 Team Scores:1-Pioneer (70)2-North White (66)3-Rossville (19) Scorers for North White:First Place Finishers4X800: Dalia Moreno, Riley Rentschler,Sable George, Autumn Reif (10:21.9) [NewSchool Record]Shot Put: Autumn Reif (30’ 7.5”)Discus: Autumn Reif (107’ 2.5”)400: Riley Rentschler (1:05.85)800: Dalia Moreno (2:31.47)200: Autumn Reif (27.06)Long Jump:...
April 24, 2024
Hall of Fame Baseball Coach Jake Burton reached career win #900 last week as the Indians defeated Rensselaer. Coach Burton is a legend of the game. Congratulations on this amazing milestone! Photo Provided
April 24, 2024
Senior Adyn Venters was awarded a $500 scholarship Friday night from the Western Indiana Officials Association presented by Todd Maiden. The association awards scholarships to athletes in 19 schools in 10 counties, including White County schools.
April 24, 2024
1. While the Monticello standpipe is not lost, the water in it was lost in what year? 2. What was the name of the laundromat next to the Monticello Drive-In Theater in 1959? 3. What was the last dry cleaner...
April 24, 2024
The Monon News April 22-28, 1914-2014 April 24, 1914 The Monon High School Alumni has been re-organized after a lapse of three years and will hold a reception at the Odd Fellows Hall Wednesday evening, May 6. April 20, 1934...
April 24, 2024
National Day of Prayer is May 2 The National Day of Prayer is always the first Thursday of May, which will be May 2 this year. The Monticello National Day of Prayer committee has announced that the local event will...
April 17, 2024
1. What towns had White’s 5¢ and $1 store? 2. What department store was lost in the tornado of April 3, 1974? 3. What department store opened soon after the tornado on the north side of Monticello? ANSWERS 1. Albert...
April 24, 2024
At 4:14am today we had lift-off…Keely Shae Distler Saylor arrived amid a flurry of doctors and nurses. She arrived four days past her predicted due date, arriving as her McKinney side of the family describes “Fashionably Late.” As the contractions began, she still stubbornly resisted...
by Lucy Dold, Executive Director The Community Foundation of White County | April 24, 2024
As our school year comes close to a close, the Community Foundation continues to celebrate its second cohort of the Youth Philanthropy Council and the soon-to-be 16 graduates from our program. Jasmine Durando, a senior at Tri-County, is one of those young leaders in our...
April 17, 2024
We had gone to visit our neighbor’s new house that is going up on the hill. We have been astounded to see how quickly a house can be erected. One day it was a sand hill, and the next a four-bedroom house will soon become...
April 17, 2024
We all have a past, and some of us hang on to the past in some incoherent process and believe that our life would be better if we could only go back and relive it again. Only this time we will get it right. The...
April 10, 2024
The newspa- pers have run stories for the past two weeks about the fiftieth ann iversa- ry of the “Killer Tornadoes” that ripped across Illinois, Indiana and Ohio on April 3, 1974. Everyone remembers where they were on that date. I was a Senior at...
April 24, 2024
Heather M. Maxson Absher, 43 of Greenfield, passed away at 11:45 a.m. on Wednesday April 17, 2024 at Community North Hospital surrounded by her family. Born December 2, 1980 in Monticello to Joseph and Linda Watson Maxson, Heather was a graduate of Twin Lakes High...
April 24, 2024
Hurchel W. Perkins, 72, passed away on Saturday, April 20, 2024, at IU Arnett Hospital in Lafayette, IN. Hurchel was born on May 8, 1951, in Logansport, IN, to William Hurchel and Hilda (Reynolds) Perkins. Hurchel was a 1968 graduate of Twin Lakes High School....
April 24, 2024
Doris E. Hubbard, 88, of Monticello, IN passed away Tuesday, March 19, 2024. She was born in Attica, IN on February 28, 1936 to the late Robert W. Boys and Leora E. Boys (Fix) Doris worked for many years for St. Elizabeth Hospital in Lafayette...
April 17, 2024
Gerald E. Burns, 88 of Norway, IN passed away at his residence surrounded by his family at 1 a.m., Friday, April 12, 2024. He was born in Norway on October 14,1935 to the late Edward G. and Ima Blanche Luse Burns. Gerald lived his entire...
April 10, 2024
Joyce A. Gano, 71, of Monticello, IN passed away Saturday, March 30, 2024. She was born May 17, 1952 in Lafayette, IN to the late Russell G. Gano and Phyllis J. (Karr) Gano. She attended beauty school after high school and became a cosmetologist. Joyce...