This weekend, Saturday, August 7 through Sunday, August 8, 2021 is Arkansas’s back-to-school tax-free holiday, a weekend set aside to help parents save on back-to-school supplies and clothes. Tons of items will be tax free including school supplies, clothing, some electronics and more. That means that all school supplies and school art supplies are exempt…
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Man charged for 2020 Banks murder
The Bradley County Sheriff’s Office announced Tuesday that Dilan Ujene Estes was arrested Monday on a capital murder charge in connection with the September 13, 2020 murder of Crissy Hayes Jacks in Banks. Estes is a white male with his residence listed at 117 Fox Run Lane in Monticello. He is charged with capital murder,…
Warren Ways & Means Committee discusses topics from American Rescue Plan Funds to Water and Sewer
Members of the Warren City Council Ways & Means Committee met Tuesday, July 27 to discuss the recently approved sewer bond issue and to start discussing the use of funding the city has received through the American Rescue Plan. Present were Committee Chairperson Dorothy Henderson, Council Member Emily Moseley and Council Member Memory Burks Frazer,…
SEACAC seeking board members for Ashley and Drew County
Southeast Arkansas Community Action Corporation is seeking Board Members for Ashley County and Drew County. The board position for Ashley County would represent as an Elected Official. The board position for Drew County would represent the Low-Income Sector. The purpose of Southeast Arkansas Community Action Corporation is to plan, implement andcoordinate programs which will tend…
SRC writer wins three Arkansas Press Awards
LITTLE ROCK – A Warren native who contributes feature stories to the Saline River Chronicle, this past weekend, won three separate awards in the Arkansas Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest. Maylon Rice, a native of Warren, former newspaperman at McGehee, Wynne, Bentonville, Little Rock and Fayetteville, who is now retired, won three awards in the…
Warren Lion’s Club member Gregg Reep named President of the Club for the next year
Outgoing Warren Lion’s Club President Tim Kessler hands the gavel over to incoming President Gregg Reep during the July 2021 meeting of the Club.
The Flying Ace Farm Visits the Library
Children’s author, Nancy Pruitt, and her husband, Farmer Doug, from The Flying Ace Farm in Bryant, Arkansas joined us for today’s program! Mrs. Nancy read her books, “Winston the Pony Goes To A Party” & “Milly the Filly!”, and shared the real-life stories of several of the characters featured in her books!Heart bar horse shoes…
Rotary District Governor speaks to Warren Rotary Club
Kathy Carter, the District Governor for Rotary District 6170 that spans over most of western, southwestern, south central, and southeastern Arkansas, was the speaker for the Warren Rotary Club on Tuesday, July 20 in the Fellowship Hall at First United Methodist Church. Carter’s home club is the Arkadelphia Sunrise Rotary Club and she was recently…
Quorum Court votes to eliminate commercial garbage collection in the County/Reconsiders Callum Hospital appointment
During the July 2021 Bradley County Quorum Court meeting conducted July 19, 2021, eight of the nine JP’s were present to conduct business. Several items of routine and new business were acted upon. All reports were reviewed and approved. In a major change in solid waste policy, the court voted to stop collecting class I…