Special to the Saline River Chronicle WHITE HALL, Ark. – Lilly Hood, a 17-year-old senior at White Hall High School recently scored 1,000 points in basketball as a varsity Lady Bulldog. Hood is the daughter of Steve and Kelli Boone Hood and the Granddaughter of Dr Terry and Donna Dees Boone of Pine Bluff and…
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Dawkins and Robinson announced as January Library winners, plus January memorials announced
For the month of January, Warren Branch Library’s Book Club for Kids had 1 participant, Jase Dawkins, who read a total of 8 books. He was January’s prize winner. Way to go Jase! Any books read for the month of February by students in grades K-8th can participate in this program. No registration required. Simply…
Pastime: Those ‘Singing’ Valentines
Somewhere around my junior year at Warren High School, the Singing Valentine’s craze took off. The exact year escapes me. I have tried to glance back at the Goggle of calendar pages past, but that didn’t help my recollection. It was a fundraising mechanism of a couple of the school clubs, not sure if it…
Pastime: Those old Cardui Calendars
A real treat often came between Christmas and New Year’s was when Warren businesses handed out calendars for the year ahead. Almost every drugstore in downtown Main Street gave away some sort of free calendar to be public back in the day. The most popular was the mass produced Cardui Calendar – a flimsy newspaper-like…
Southark Spotlight: DWR YMCA of Warren and Bradley County
Southark Spotlight’s January 2022 episode takes a look at the Donald W. Reynolds YMCA of Warren and Bradley County with David Richey, the YMCA Executive Director. Richey takes viewers through the structure of the Y, the programs it offers to both youth and adults, as well as gives us an insight into how the Y…
VIDEO: Terrie White of the BC Chamber of Commerce talks about the role of the Chamber and how it operates
Terrie White, current President of the Bradley County Chamber of Commerce, recently sat down with Saline River Chronicle to discuss the ins and outs of how the Chamber is structured, how it benefits local businesses County-wide, as well as what events are planned for 2022. Watch the full interview today.
Two new puppies available for adoption from the Warren Pound
Two new puppies are available for adoption at the Warren Dog Pound, both a German Shepard mix. If you are interested in adopting one or both, contact the Warren Police Department at 870-226-3703.
Pastime: Wintertime movies about summertime sizzlers
These cold, gray January days (and nights) have renewed my memories about the wintertime shows at the Pastime in downtown Warren. There was more than just availability – perhaps a little Sid Wharton smarts in offering up summertime movies to the viewing public when it was cold, gray and chilly in Warren and Bradley County.…
UAM Heavy Equipment School providing good paying jobs
Did you know the University of Arkansas at Monticello, McGehee Campus operates an accredited school for the training of heavy equipment operators right here in Warren? It’s not a secret and has been located here for a number of years, yet it seems many people are unaware of the school and what it can provide. When a…
Today marks the 73rd Anniversary of the 1949 Warren tornado
Monday, January 3, 2022 is the 73rd anniversary of the tragic tornado that hit Warren in 1949. It is a time so many of who grew up in Warren in the 1950’s, 60’s and early 70’s were told about over and over. That storm was a disaster legend to several generations of young people growing…
Pastime: McGehee’s Chief of Police, Warren Native, Jim White, 68, passes on Christmas Day
This Christmas Day, one of the shortest and saddest messages of this very unusual year, was “pinged’ into my electronic phone device in the lazy, ultra-warm afternoon of this holiday. Jim White, you see, was a friend, a real friend across the last nearly six decades, had suddenly passed away at his home in McGehee.…
Southark Spotlight: Dustin Prince
Monticello resident and actor Dustin Prince recently sat down to chat with Saline River Chronicle for the December 2021 episode of Southark Spotlight, the show which introduces Chronicle readers to community members doing positive and unique things in life. Prince, who is also an employee of Maxwell Hardwood Flooring, spoke with Saline River Chronicle about…
Pastime: The pastor and his Christmas stories
The scribbler of these Pastime memories sometimes, like all of us, get a little bit “down” as this pandemic continues; as the holiday season approaches; and we start seeing more names we know on a personal first-name basis in the obituary columns across this state. The last couple of weeks have been an emotional roller-coaster…
Pastime: Happy Birthday Bradley County
Now this Pastime is not meant to be a history lesson as much as a Happy Birthday greeting. December 18th Bradley County turns 181 years old. Happy Birthday to Bradley County! Getting the technical out of the way, on December 18, 1840, Bradley County was formed from the much larger Union County on pre-drawn, pre-territorial maps.…
The Christmas Memory Tree
This is the story behind the Christmas tree on the Martin lot, from Warren Mayor Denisa Pennington: This tree has a story to tell. After my best friend, classmate and 5th grade boyfriend, Bob Roddey passed away I took a little cedar seedling from where he was buried. I took it to my childhood home…
News Item: All SEC WR Treylon Burks Declares For NFL Draft by Gary Thomas
Hogtoons artist Gary Thomas was kind enough to allow us to publish his cartoon featuring Warren’s own Treylon Burks. Gary’s Facebook page Hogtoons features his wonderful artwork featuring all things Razorbacks. Be sure to hop on over to Gary’s Hogtoons Facebook Page and give his page a like! We really appreciate Gary allowing us to…
Pastime: Delicious cheese straws from a cookie exchange
A Pastime of my past surfaces each Christmas. It is more about an event and yet the culinary treat that came my way for simply moving a few card tables and pieces of furniture around, makes me write this after a half century of memories. Of my many duties as a Printer’s Devil at the…
Jase Dawkins wins Warren Library Book Club for Kids November giveaway
For the month of November, Warren Branch Library’s Book Club for Kids had 1 participant. Jase Dawkins read a total of 4 books! He was November’s prize winner. Any students in grades K-8th can participate in this program.No registration required. Simply keep up with the books they read for the month of December and submit…
SEARK Concert Association presents Christmas Around the World
The Southeast Arkansas Concert Association announced Wednesday that they will present a program titled Christmas Around the World by the West Edge String Quartet Sunday, December 5 at 3:00 p.m. This beautiful, award-winning Christmas album is performed live, on stage at the University Fine Arts Center. 15 Classical Christmas Carols by the West Edge String…
Pastime: When Santa had a little house in downtown Warren
Here is a Pastime when there was a Santa House in downtown Warren. The week after Thanksgiving, the Warren Chamber of Commerce, under the tutelage of James Ernest, who would later be the Bradley County Judge (1965-68 and again, 1975-76) quickly constructed a small white-frame building on the corner of Cypress and Main in Warren.…
Audrey Culwell reaches 700 books before kindergarten in Library program
Audrey Culwell has reached 700 books in Warren Branch Library’s 1000 Books Before Kindergarten program! For more information about how your child can participate in this program, contact the Warren Branch Library at 870-226-2536.