Watermelon Festival pageant meetings offered this Sunday

Laura Young ECB Publishing, Inc. Planning for the 2025 Monticello Watermelon Festival is well underway, and information about ways to participate is coming available to the public. To start with, families interested in having a child in one of the pageants can hear presentations this Sunday afternoon, March 30, at the office of the Monticello-Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce, located at 420 W. Washington St. At 3:30 p.m. details for the Little Girls Pageant (for ages 3-12) will be discussed. Then at 4:30 p.m. is a meeting about the Big Girls Pageant (ages 13-21). The pageants are set to take place on Saturday, May 31. Sign up forms are available now at the festival website, https:/