MPD hopes to be in new building by year’s end

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. The effort to secure a new station for the Monticello Police Department (MPD) continues, with the expectation that the department may move into its new home as soon as year’s end. That new home, located at 1296 E. Rocky Branch Rd., was formerly a branch office of the Florida Power Corporation (FPC), which Progress Energy absorbed in 2000 and Duke Energy subsequently acquired in 2012. MPD Captain Jack Pitts told the Monticello News last week that Duke Ener