State Representative Jeff Wardlaw speaks to BC Retired Teachers and Employees

State Representative Jeff Wardlaw speaks to BC Retired Teachers and Employees

WARREN, Ark. – On Monday, April 10, 2023, the Bradley County Retired Teachers and Employees Association held their regular meeting at the First United Methodist Church. The guest speaker for the event was State Representative Jeff Wardlaw, who spoke to the group about legislation and insurance that affects school teachers and employees. Jonalyn Reep is…

Chamber talks Market On Main, downtown decorating, and Tomato Festival preparations

Chamber talks Market On Main, downtown decorating, and Tomato Festival preparations

Market On Main will return to the former Martin’s lot this Saturday, it was announced at Monday’s monthly Bradley County Chamber of Commerce board meeting. Board member Estephany Roman said 21 vendors are expected from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. including four food trucks with coffee, Mexican food and fried items. The vendors are only limited by…

Schedule of Warren’s Holy Week services announced

Schedule of Warren’s Holy Week services announced

WARREN, Ark. – Local residents are gearing up for Holy Week services as the Easter holiday approaches. The Bradley County Ministerial Alliance has announced a series of services taking place next week, featuring local religious leaders from various denominations. The Holy Week services will kick off on Monday, April 3rd at the First Freewill Baptist…

Bradley County Auxiliary Deputies to host annual fundraiser with chicken dinner and silent auction

Bradley County Auxiliary Deputies to host annual fundraiser with chicken dinner and silent auction

WARREN, Ark. – The Bradley County Auxiliary Deputies are gearing up for their annual fundraiser, which will feature a Chicken Dinner and Silent Auction on April 21st, 2023. The event will take place at the Search & Rescue Building located at 206 East Cedar from 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. and 4:00-9:00 p.m. For just $12 a…

Warren Country Club to host crawfish and shrimp boil for Pavilion Project and Warren High School Golf Team

Warren Country Club to host crawfish and shrimp boil for Pavilion Project and Warren High School Golf Team

The Warren Country Club is getting ready to host a special event for a couple of great causes. On Saturday, March 25, from 12 pm to 7 pm, the Club will host a Crawfish and Boiled Shrimp Dinner as a benefit for the Pavilion Project and the Warren High School Golf Team. This event promises…

Quorum Court hears report on Extension Service, BCMC, and Courthouse renovation

Quorum Court hears report on Extension Service, BCMC, and Courthouse renovation

WARREN, Ark. – Bradley County Extension Service agents gave their annual report to Bradley County Quorum Court Monday night. Staff Chairman John Gavin and Family and Consumer Sciences Agent Michelle Carter described the various programs they and their staff had conducted. Gavin said the County Extension Council is comprised of 20 members. In agriculture, programs…

Firefighters respond to two separate oil storage fires this weekend near Moro Bay

Firefighters respond to two separate oil storage fires this weekend near Moro Bay

MORO BAY, Ark. – Multiple fire crews from Bradley County and Union County were called Sunday, March 5 to a fire at Moro Bay on Mitchum Landing Road due to an oil storage tank explosion, the second such event of the weekend. Crews with the Bradley County Rural Fire Department, the Banks Volunteer Fire Department,…

Roof repairs the subject of Thursday BCMC Board meeting, plus full meeting report

Roof repairs the subject of Thursday BCMC Board meeting, plus full meeting report

A lengthy discussion was held at Bradley County Medical Center’s monthly board meeting Thursday about much-needed infrastructure repairs weighed against the possibility of building a new hospital in the next few years. Extensive repairs are needed to the hospital roof, as it has leaked in several places. Maintenance Director Tim Saunders joined the discussion late…

Bradley County to hold pesticide collection event

Bradley County to hold pesticide collection event

Bradley County producers and commercial applicators will have the opportunity to dispose of their outdated and unused pesticides during a collection event on Tuesday, March 7. The event will take place at the Bradley County Fairgrounds. Inventory forms are due by March 1, and can be picked up at the Bradley County Extension Office or…

Construction could start in June on new $2.1 million multipurpose Emergency Response Building, plus full BC Quorum Court report

Construction could start in June on new $2.1 million multipurpose Emergency Response Building, plus full BC Quorum Court report

Plans for a $2.1 million COVID-19 Emergency Response Building were revealed Tuesday at the Bradley County Quorum Court meeting. Architects Blakeley C. Dunn and Matthew Roberts of CADM Architecture Inc. of El Dorado explained the plans. County Judge Klay McKinney said the county received funding for the building through the American Rescue Plan Act. First…

BCMC chosen to participate in Delta Region Community Health Systems Development (DRCHSD) Program

BCMC chosen to participate in Delta Region Community Health Systems Development (DRCHSD) Program

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…

UPDATE: Vehicle recovered from the Saline was reported stolen and appears to have been purposely wrecked in the River

UPDATE: Vehicle recovered from the Saline was reported stolen and appears to have been purposely wrecked in the River

Saline River Chronicle received an official update Monday morning from the Bradley County Sheriff’s Department in regards to a story we broke Sunday afternoon of a vehicle being recovered from the Saline River near the Jim Young Bridge on Highway 63 north of Warren. On 05 FEB 2023 Deputy Jose Ramirez responded to report of…

Vehicle removed from the Saline River near Hwy 63 bridge Sunday afternoon

Vehicle removed from the Saline River near Hwy 63 bridge Sunday afternoon

Personnel with the Bradley County Sheriff’s Department as well as a local towing service were busy removing a vehicle from the Saline River Sunday afternoon, February 5, 2023 near the Jim Young Bridge on Highway 63 north of Warren. Details at this hour are still very limited. However, it appears as though the vehicle was…