Chamber dinner recap

Laura Young ECB Publishing, Inc. Members and guests of the Monticello-Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce packed the downstairs Perkins Hall of the Monticello Opera House on Thursday evening, Oct. 24, to mark the end of their 2023-24 fiscal year with style and celebration. The “Boots, Bling & Bowties” themed event began at 5:30 p.m. with cocktails, appetizers, mingling and music by The Highway 59 Band. By 7 p.m., the first course of dinner, catered by The Porch on the Green, was being served around the room, and outgoing Chamber President Floyd Faglie gave the official welcome of the evening. “After all of the storms, cleanup, event cancelations and postponements, it’s grea