The Monticello Chamber of Commerce held its annual banquet on April 24, with 160 in attendance – a new record. Willow Tree Missions Executive Director Rachel LeJeune was named Piatt County Journal-Republican Citizen of the Year, while the 2018 Monticello High School football team was also ho…
Photos from egg hunts held in Cerro Gordo, DeLand and Monticello.
Staff and interested parties have been taking tours of the Old Washington school attic in recent weeks before it is torn down this summer.
Monticello School Superintendent Vic Zimmerman talks about the attic of Old Washington Elementary School, circa 1894, which will be demolished this summer.
A crowd gathered at the corner of Washington and State Streets in Monticello on Saturday to formally dedicate a memorial marker to the late Judge John P. Shonkwiler, a Piatt County judge who served as chief judge for the six-county Sixth Circuit prior to his death in 2012.
Monticello's girls' soccer team lost 2-1 to St. Thomas More on Thursday, March 28. The Sages dropped a game to Mt. Zion by the same score Monday, March 25.
Nine University of Illinois students took part in spring break at Allerton Park and Retreat Center, where they cleaned gardens, split and stacked wood and took part in other activities during their spring break.
Cerro Gordo school officials led a tour through the district’s $8 million construction project on March 11. included is the completed middle school gym, which was used by students for the first time the next day. The construction includes the commons, part of work that will connect the high …
Bement High School will present "Will A. Wonkie and the College Tour (chocolate not included)" at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 15-16 in the school's small gym.
