2022-09-21

The recent Pandemic spelled the end to some local businesses, but Kinser’s Bakery has survived as well as its owner, Pat, who has overcome the hurdles that life has thrown her. A petite lady with blonde curly hair, Pat is a like whirlwind in the busy restaurant from opening at 4 a.m. daily until closing at 2 p.m., Monday through […]

Habitat for Humanity of Lafayette will begin building a new home in Monticello at the corner of North Dewey and Washington Streets soon. The home will be for Abigail Stepp, who is from Monticello, and her children, Rylynn and Bennett. Rylynn is eight and going to the fourth grade. Bennett is two. She will be helping with the building of […]

A tree fell some two years ago blocking a canal on the Tippecanoe River and some residents along East Lakeside Drive, east of downtown Monticello, wanted the Shafer and Freeman Lakes Environmental Conservation Corporation to remove it. Doing so would allow the residents to use the whole canal and not just part of it. Residents have complained to SFLECC about […]

The Westerhouse family presented the White County Special Olympics with a check for $5,200 recently and celebrated the donation with a picnic at the Monticello City Park on Sunday. The donation was the result of a memorial to Mary Ellen Westerhouse, who was killed in a traffic accident on Aug. 1. The memorial was given to the Special Olympics, because […]

Dorian Hale was so desperate to get new counsel he threatened his current public defender. Hale, who is charged with two counts of murder in the 2020 deaths of Wolcott residents Daniel and Matthew Benyon, was recorded during a White County Jail virtual visit making threats of harm to his attorney, Thomas O’Brien. Hale had filed multiple times to remove […]