Get your tickets for this Friday’s game between the Warren Lumberjacks and the Dumas Bobcats. Tickets for adults and students are $5 each. Tickets are sold on Ticketleap.com. AAA passes at the pass gate located at the east stadium entrance will be accepted. (Please be prepared to show ID). There will be metal detectors and…
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The power of “choice”
Ready or not, some day it will come to an end. There will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours or days. All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else. Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance. It will not matter what you owned or what…
Diamond Hogs to host Vols in revised SEC Schedule
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Arkansas will host Tennessee at Baum-Walker Stadium in the revised regular-season conference schedule released by the SEC on Tuesday. Arkansas’ updated SEC slate now features home series against Auburn, Alabama, Tennessee, Texas A&M and South Carolina. The Razorbacks’ SEC road series include trips to LSU, Ole Miss, Georgia, Mississippi State and Vanderbilt. The…
Bell tower getting closer
According to the Bradley County Courthouse communications the cupola is back on the bell tower and the wood work has been started. The restoration project is getting closer to completion. Photo by Bradley County Courthouse communications.
AGFC decoy program draws new hunters
LITTLE ROCK — An innovative waterfowl hunter recruitment program from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission is doing more than saving some plastic, it may be saving the future of the sport. The AGFC’s Decoy Adoption Program finds old waterfowl hunting equipment and places it with new owners to continue harvesting game and memories in…
Warren arrest report for September 26-October 3, 2022
The following is a direct re-print of the Warren Arrest & Confinement Record from the Warren, Arkansas Police Department. All people listed are innocent until proven guilty. Tonya Payne / 604 Cook St., Warren, AR / DOB 11-15-70 / shoplifting, driving on sus. DL on 9-26-22 Christopher Bowie / 515 N Myrtle St, Warren, AR…
Nona Proctor Watson Dumas
Nona Proctor Watson Dumas, 82, passed away August 26, 2022. She is survived by her daughter Libba Watson of Hot Springs, AR, her son and daughter in law Frank and Jennifer Watson of Memphis, TN, her granddaughter Julia Watson of Memphis, TN, and grandson Will Watson of Memphis, TN. Nona grew up in Batesville, AR,…
BYU and Arkansas game time set
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Arkansas football’s week seven game at BYU on Saturday, Oct. 15 will kick at 2:30 p.m. CT and air on either ABC or ESPN. A six-day selection window will be utilized to determine the TV network assignment. The Razorbacks and Cougars (4-1) will meet for the first time. This weekend, Arkansas travels to…
Small wildfire extinguished by County Line rural crews Sunday afternoon
A small grass and underbrush fire broke out about five and half miles north of Warren on Highway 8 towards New Edinburg, Sunday, October 2, 2022 around 2:30 p.m., threatening the local forest. Crews from the County Line Rural Fire Department responded and seemed to have the fire under control for the most part by…
Pastime: Mary Lou Martin’s chili dogs
Mary Lou Martin’s delicious, spicy, wonderful ‘Band Concession’ chili dogs As the cool evening nights of October draws near and Lumberjack football heats up in this take-no-prisoner style of football that now permeates Warren; all I can think about on the cool, fall evenings at a high school football game are Mary Lou Martin’s signature…
Enter the 2022 WHS Homecoming Parade
To enter the 2022 Homecoming Parade that will be held October 14, please fill out the following form. (the form will close October 13 at 5:00 PM) https://forms.gle/mRRkjUTUUC2KuJGv7 Paper copies can be picked up and returned to the SEACBEC office, if you prefer. The deadline to turn in paper copies is October 13 by 4PM. All…
Muleriders knocked down by East Central on Homecoming
MAGNOLIA, Ark. – Redshirt sophomore running back Jariq Scales recorded 26 touches for 195 yards and two touchdowns, junior linebacker Jacob Berry totaled 15 tackles, but turnovers proved costly for Southern Arkansas on Saturday in front of a homecoming crowd inside Wilkins Stadoum at Rip Powell Field. The Muleriders suffered a 34-22 Great American Conference loss to Week 5 opponent…
Community women invited to United Women of Faith meeting Monday
The United Women of Faith of the First United Methodist Church of Warren will meet Monday, October 3 at 1:30 p.m. Morgan Richardson Meeks will present the program. All women, not just Methodists, are invited to attend.
Weevils fall to SWOSU in Oklahoma road trip
WEATHERFORD, Okla. – The University of Arkansas at Monticello football team played their fifth match-up of the 2022 season on Saturday afternoon. The Boll Weevils traveled to Weatherford, Oklahoma to take on out-of-state, Great American Conference member Southwestern Oklahoma State University, taking a 37-27 loss from the Bulldogs. The loss on the day drops the Weevils to a 3-2 record on the…
Arkansas drops second SEC game in loss to No. 2 Alabama
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Struggling to come back from a woeful first half against the number two ranked Alabama Crimson Tide, the Arkansas Razorbacks made a fight of it, but fell by the final of 49-26 at home in Fayetteville Saturday, October 1, 2022. Arkansas surrendered 28 unanswered points by the two minute mark of the…
UAM’s Demilon Brown named to Harlon Hill Watch List
MONTICELLO, Ark. – University of Arkansas at Monticello Weevil Football quarterback Demilon Brown was included in the most recent 2022 Harlon Hill Trophy watch list on NCAA.com. The Harlon Hill Trophy is awarded to the nation’s most outstanding player in December. Brown was included as one of twelve quarterbacks listed on the watch list. Brown came out of the Boll Weevils’ Saturday match-up…
Retired Teachers to meet Monday
The Bradley County Retired Teachers and Employees Association will meet Monday, October 3 at 11:30 at First United Methodist Church in Warren.
Ouachita Society of American Foresters (SAF) awards scholarship to UAM Forestry student
MONTICELLO, Arkansas — Jake Knowles, a senior pursuing the forestry option of the Natural Resources Management degree, was presented a $600 check by Ouachita SAF representatives Dr. Michael Blazier and Dr. Robert Ficklin. “The Ouachita SAF consists of forestry professionals in Arkansas and Oklahoma, and a deserving student from Arkansas is selected to receive this…
Bobby Earl Davis, 1966-2022
Bobby Earl Davis, 55, of Banks, passed away September 21, 2022. Born December 11, 1966, he was a son of the late I.V. and Myrtle Davis. As a youth he attended First Baptist Church in Banks, he also attended Banks High School. Bobby was employed a number of years at Tyson, Ouachita Lumber and Ozark…
Edward Jones office on US 425 South holds open house
An open house welcomed the public to stop by, visit and enjoy refreshments at the Edward Jones Office located at 109 Westgate Dr., Suite C in Monticello Friday, September 30. KC Knobloch and Yukiko Bivens were on hand to greet visitors and to serve their financial needs. Pictured left to right at KC Knoblock, Billy Joe Watson, Yukiko…
Annette Joyce Ridgell, 1943-2022
Annette Joyce Ridgell, 79, of Wilmar, passed away September 17, 2022. Born January 17, 1943, she was a daughter of the late Arton Sr. and Eulelia Ragland. She attended Wilmar and Drew High Schools in Monticello. She joined Shady Grove AME Church at a young age. After graduating high school, she moved to California. Upon…