Junior Auxiliary of Warren is currently hosting a school supply drive to support children in need for the 2021/2022 school year. Those wishing to donate supplies may drop off the goods at either Farm Bureau, the Junior Auxiliary booth during Saturday’s farmer’s market, or with any member of the Junior Auxiliary of Warren. The group…
The Warren City Council recently adopted Resolution #A-660, honoring the life and community service of the late N.P. Matts. Mrs. LaDonna Mathur(left) was present for the reading and reception of the Resolution presented by Warren Mayor Denisa Pennington. Also shown is N.P. Matts’s Councilmember Dorothy Henderson.
Six of the seven members of the Warren School Board were present Monday evening, August 9 for the monthly meeting of the board. President Jerry Daniels presided. The board had a full agenda and conducted a list of routine business, including approving past minutes, financial reports and hearing from the various school administrators. The last…
Arkansas Lions District 7-N Zone 1 Chairman Tim Kessler of Warren spoke to Smackover Lions Club on Tuesday at the Smackover Library. Pictured, from left, are Warner Smith, Kessler, James McMenis, Bobby Neal, Frank Hash and Aaron Brant.
Ana Mariell Tapia of El Dorado, a practical nursing major at South Arkansas Community College, has accepted a Health Sciences Endowed Scholarship to attend the school this fall. She is a 2007 graduate of Warren High School. The scholarship is provided through the SouthArk Foundation.
Warren’s City Council met in regular session Monday, August 9, 2021 with Mayor Densia Pennington presiding and five of the six Council members present. City Clerk Helen Boswell provided the July minutes and the statement of revenues and expenditures along with City and County sales tax receipts. She also passed on the District Court Clerk’s…
By Tim Kessler The Bradley County Chamber of Commerce board of directors met for their monthly meeting on Monday at Bradley County Economic Development Corp. and grappled with the issue of how to proceed without an executive director. Ashley Foreman, who had served both organizations as executive director, resigned as of July 2 to take…
The Warren Water & Sewer Commission met in a special called meeting Monday afternoon, August 9, 2021 to consider bids received for cleaning sludge from the City sewer ponds on the east side of town. The ponds were built some 30 years ago and have functioned extremely well, having kept Warren in compliance with all…
WARREN, Ark. (8/6/21) – There will be a LifeShare Blood Drive on Wednesday, August 18 from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the LifeShare bus that will be parked in the BCMC Rural Health Clinic parking lot. The BCMC Rural Health Clinic is located at 304 East Central Street across the street from the Emergency…
According to an Arkansas State Police report, 20 year-old Ashlyn N. Harris of Rison was killed in a one-vehicle accident on U.S. Highway 63 near Woodlawn Friday evening, August 6, 2021. One other person was injured in the wreck, the driver of the vehicle, 19 year-old Matthew S. Barnard of White Hall. The State Police…
Reporters from Bloomberg news were recently in Warren covering a story about Bradley County leading the way in vaccinations in the State of Arkansas. You can read the entire article at https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-07/covid-19-vaccines-how-bradley-county-arkansas-met-state-vaccination-goals
A Community Conversation was held at the Warren Branch Library on Thursday, August 5, to discuss their recent project, Community Resource Centers or e-Libraries. These Centers will be literature displays strategically place throughout Bradley County that will offer various brochures about resources that are available to our community. This Community Conversation was a requirement for…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…