Warren Mayor Gregg Reep and Extension Agent-Staff Chairman John Gavin provided barbecue sandwiches for the Warren senior girls basketball team Thursday before their game vs. LR Mills. Serving the meals were Joel Tolefree and Louann Anderson. Photo by Tim Kessler.
Joel Tolefree and Louann Anderson assisted in feeding the Warren senior boys basketball team barbecue sandwiches Thursday before their game vs. LR Mills. The meal was provided by Mayor Gregg Reep and Extension Agent-Staff Chairman John Gavin. Photo by Tim Kessler.
WARREN, Ark. – Backed by 29 points from Antonio Jordan the Warren Lumberjacks upset the number two team in the 8-4A Conference, Mills High of Little Rock, by the final of 64-53 Thursday night, February 16, 2023 at Lumberjack Arena in Warren to clinch a spot in the 4A South Regional Tournament. Top photo: Antonio…
Bradley County Pink Tomato Committee held its first general meeting Thursday to begin preparations for this year’s festival. The festival will begin June 3 with pageants at the Hermitage Community Center and continue the next week with a variety of activities. Kenna Sparks is the festival chairwoman, with Keeton Hudson as vice chairman. Top photo:…
Superintendent Bryan Cornish announced at the Warren School Board meeting Thursday that Warren High School Principal Tiffany Gathen was nominated for Principal of the Year through the Arkansas Association of Secondary School Principals. Honors also went to Angela Marshall, who left the board after serving for 21 years. She was presented with a plaque of…
WARREN, Ark. (2/16/23)– Bradley County Medical Center has been recognized as a 2023 Top 100 Critical Access Hospital by The Chartis Center for Rural Health. This annual recognition program honors outstanding performance among the nation’s rural hospitals based on the results of the Chartis Rural Hospital Performance INDEX™. BCMC was one of just four Critical Access…
The Warren Junior Lady Jack basketball team won the 8-4A Junior District Tournament Wednesday, February 15, 2023 by defeating the Monticello Junior Lady Billies by the final of 52-40 in the Championship game of the tournament. This is the first trophy won by a Warren team in the new Lumberjack Arena. Photo courtesy of Warren…
Editor’s note: The following article is part of a series on prominent Warren citizens in honor of Black History Month. Alderwoman Dorothy Henderson has achieved and maintained Level 1 and Level 2 Municipal Official Certification plus has 15 core educational hours of study in subject matters such as budgeting personnel management and the methods of…
WARREN, Ark. – One of the Warren Lady Jacks best performances of the season came up short Thursday evening as they fell to the Mills Lady Comets 59-28 at Lumberjack Arena in Warren. Senior Michaela Stanley put Warren on the board at the 6:26 mark from the free-throw line. Cherish Dooley would knock down a…
“I give all the glory to God for everything,” said singer and songwriter Josie Hargis as she described her journey into the world of country and Gospel music. The local musician has emerged as one of the top new talents from the State of Arkansas, and it all began right here in Warren. The story…
Three Warren sixth grade students were nominated by their Gifted and Talented teacher for the Discovering Excellence in Arkansas Award. All three students have been notified that they have been selected for this award. The students are part of a group of only 100 students from around the state who have been selected to be…
Southeast Arkansas Regional Intermodal Facilities Authority board members met Wednesday at Bradley County Economic Development Corp. and discussed continuing payments on a railroad crossing and efforts to gain highway improvements in the area. Members present were Chairman John Lipton and board members Bettye Gragg of Monticello, Michael Efird of Drew County and Bob Smalling of…
WARREN, Ark. (2/15/23) – There will be a LifeShare Blood Drive on Tuesday, Feb. 21 from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the LifeShare bus that will be set up in the BCMC Rural Health Clinic parking lot. The BCMC Rural Health Clinic is located at 304 East Central Street across the road from the…
The Rotary Club of Warren met for its weekly meeting Tuesday, Feb. 14 at First United Methodist Church in Warren. The group of Rotarians heard from Warren High School Junior Rotarian Oscar Perez to start the program. Top photo: (from L to R) of Rotarian Denisa Pennington and BCMC CEO/CFO Leslie Huitt Rotarian Denisa Pennington…
WARREN, Ark. – Entering the final week of the regular season Tuesday night the Warren Lumberjack basketball team ran into Conference leaders Watson Chapel and fell by the final of 73-47 at Lumberjack Arena in Warren. An outstanding first quarter of action saw Warren take a 9-6 lead over Chapel with at the 3:00 minute…
WARREN, Ark. – Trouble getting going on the scoreboard saw the Warren Lady Jacks fall by the final of 55-11 to Watson Chapel in an 8-4A game at Lumberjack Arena in Warren Tuesday evening, February 14, 2023. Aniyah York led the Lady Jacks with seven points on the night. She knocked down two threes in…
WARREN, Ark. (2/14/23)– On behalf of the Health Resources Services Administration’s Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP), and Delta Regional Authority (DRA), The National Rural Health Resource Center (The Center) is excited to announce Bradley County Medical Center has been selected to participate in the Delta Region Community Health Systems Development (DRCHSD) Program. Through the DRCHSD Program, the DRA and FORHP…
Volunteers helped make box lunches for those in need at FeeFee Jones’s Soup Kitchen this past Saturday, February 11 in Warren. FeeFee Jones has operated the Soup Kitchen for over 29 years and has served thousands of meals.
WHS Accounting students are participating in the Stock Market Game this school year. The teams consist of Tayshawn Johnson and Landon Barton for “The Buyers” and Ivan Pahuamba, Olivia Davidson, Abigail Pascual-Cortez, and Vincent Davis for the “Money Chasers”. These students are researching companies, stock quotes and competing with other schools by buying stocks and…
WARREN, Ark. – Warren’s City Council met Monday evening to conduct their regular monthly business for the month of February 2023 at the Warren Municipal Building with four Council members present and two absent. Warren Mayor Gregg Reep presided over the meeting and informed the Council that Council members Memory Burks Frazer was unable to…
The Warren City Council approved Resolution A-677 Monday evening honoring the late Sue Wagnon who was the founder of the former Wagnon Place Nursing Home, now known as Chapel Woods. Wagnon’s family, Clay and Brenda Wagnon were on hand at the Council meeting Monday for the reading and presentation of the Resolution by Warren Mayor…