County awards $22K to nonprofits

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. The Jefferson County Board of County Commissioners recently awarded a total of $22,000 to 11 local nonprofit organizations that work in various ways to improve the community through their programs, services and initiatives. The organizations, each of which received a $2,000 grant from the small nonprofit grant program, were the Monticello Opera House, Makacloud, Inc., Jefferson County Humane Society, United Force of Jefferson County, Cemetery Restoration and