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Brown Takes Third At State Spelling Bee

Brown Takes Third At State Spelling Bee

HOPE – Hempstead County three-peat spelling bee champion Mika Brown spelled her way to third place in the Arkansas State Spelling Bee. Brown, a seventh grade student at Hope Academy…

Hope Public Schools Board Sets Special Meeting

Hope Public Schools Board Sets Special Meeting

HOPE – The Hope Public Schools Board will meet in special session Monday March 13. The 9:00am meeting in the second floor conference room of the HPSD administration building, 117…

Clinton Primary Hosts Community Reader Program

Clinton Primary Hosts Community Reader Program

HOPE – Hope School Board member and police detective Lieutenant Jimmy Courtney read aloud to Robin Bobo’s second grade class at Clinton Primary School recently. Courtney is among community volunteers…

Historic Washington Hosts 49th Annual Jonquil Festival

Historic Washington Hosts 49th Annual Jonquil Festival

HISTORICAL WASHINGTON – The arrival of spring is heralded each year with a bounty of beautiful jonquils at Historic Washington State Park. Welcome the season by shopping over a hundred…

Work Continues On First National Bank Of Tom Bean

Work Continues On First National Bank Of Tom Bean

HOPE – Neither rain nor mud keeps the dirt crews from their work at the future site of the First National Bank of Tom Bean. The site, located on North…

Farmers Bank NOT Leaving Hope

Farmers Bank NOT Leaving Hope

HOPE – Despite a number of rumors currently circulating the area, Farmers Bank is NOT leaving – they’ll simply be moving to a new facility, sooner or later. Since the…

SAU student picked to work on Broadway play

SAU student picked to work on Broadway play

MAGNOLIA – The SAU Department of Theatre has announced Alycya Thomas, a junior theatre major from Jonesboro, has been hired as a production assistant for The Lion King: The Musical…

Wise to deliver “Last Lecture”

Wise to deliver “Last Lecture”

MAGNOLIA – Dr. Tim Wise will deliver Southern Arkansas University’s 2017 installment of “The Last Lecture” at 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 14, in the Reynolds Center Foundation Hall. The event is…

Event date changed

Event date changed

MAGNOLIA – Making Magnolia Blossom’s upcoming Spring Big Splash that was to be this Saturday has been rescheduled to April 1 because of the possibility of inclement weather. Coordinators will continue…