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- Everything's in place to deliver more COVID-19 vaccines in Columbia County -- except for the vaccines, pharmacist says
- Cordelia Street residence hit by fire
- Arkansas Farm Bureau Foundation elevates SAU grad Matt Jackson
- Commercial Metals reports lower first quarter earnings and sales
- Jalen Brooks GAC Player of the Week
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Slow supply chains are keeping the pace of COVID-19 vaccinations in Columbia County at a crawl.
Fire damaged a house at 219 N. Cordelia in Magnolia about 5:45 p.m. Monday.
Matt Jackson, 37, a Southern Arkansas University graduate has been promoted to director of Education and Outreach for the Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation’s Organization and Member Programs.
Commercial Metals Company has announced financial results for its fiscal first quarter ended November 30, 2020.
One man was killed about 11:45 a.m. Monday in a collision on U.S. 165 north of the Ouachita Parish line in Morehouse Parish, LA.
The following people have recently been booked into the custody of the Columbia County Justice and Detention Facility on Rawhide Road in Magnolia. All of the following people are presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law. Not listed are people serving brief commitments or state …
COVID-19 infection information for seven South Arkansas counties and three North Louisiana parishes from respective state health departments. The following figures for COVID-19 virus cases are current through 6 p.m. Monday.
Charles J. Smelser, 27, of Waldo died about 4:33 a.m. Monday in a single-vehicle wreck on Columbia County Road 13 near McNeil.
Mike McNeill’s Diary will not be published today. The column will return on Tuesday.
Government offices, financial institutions and schools are closed today, January 18, in observance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Education
Dr. Lonnie Williams has become vice chancellor for diversity and community engagement at Arkansas State University, Chancellor Kelly Damphousse announced.
The Arkansas Department of Agriculture has named 52 schools across Arkansas approved for funding through the Arkansas School Garden Grant Program. Each of the schools will receive a $500 grant to be used for starting or expanding gardens on school grounds.
Emerson High School has released its honor roll for the second nine weeks and first semester grading period of the 2020-2021 academic year.
Superintendent John Ward told the Magnolia School Board this week that the district will receive Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) II funding as part of COVID-19 relief legislation.
Nevada Elementary School has released its honor roll for the second nine weeks of the 2020-2021 academic year.
Southern Arkansas University has welcomed students back to campus for the spring semester.
Magnolia Middle School has released its honor roll for the second nine-weeks grading period.
Columbia County and foreign students were among those receiving undergraduate and graduate degrees at Southern Arkansas University's Fall Commencement ceremony held on Saturday, November 21, 2020.
Nevada High School has posted its second nine weeks and fall semester honor rolls.
Following on the success of 2020’s Virtual Mulerider Kids College (MKC) and Mulerider Teen College (MTC) at Southern Arkansas University, plans are under way for the 2021 camps to be held in-person on the SAU campus.
Obituaries
De’Taevias L. Cooper, 19, of Magnolia passed away Saturday, January 16, 2021 at Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock.
Zachariah D. Porchia, 15, of Camden, passed away Saturday, Jan…
Marjorie Louise Johnson, 97, of Chilton, IL, formerly Richmond…
Benjamin E. Wright, 55, of Magnolia passed away Saturday, Janu…
Roy Morris Keith, 78, of the Sharman community near Taylor, pa…
Mary Evelyn Jameson, 88, of Magnolia passed away Thursday, Jan…
Lori Suzanne (Lee) Bryant, 46, of Magnolia passed away on Wedn…
Fred Oliver “Jake” Gillard, 79, of Lewisville passed away Tues…
Entertainment
The visual arts committee of the South Arkansas Arts Center in El Dorado is hosting its annual SAAC Membership Showcase.
School’s out, the holiday season is officially here, and everyone in Columbia County is looking for things they can safely do together during the pandemic.
"A Christmas Carol ... A Radio Play" will be performed on stage at 7 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Saturday by the South Arkansas Arts Center of El Dorado Drama Club.
Garvan Woodland Gardens in Hot Springs is ushering in the new season with a daytime winter festival that opened last month, as well as a Holiday High Tea.
South Arkansas Arts Center theatre veterans will come together this month to stage a live production of A.R. Gurney's classic play, "Love Letters.”
There will be no Merrytime in Magnolia this year.
Opinion
Should hospitals allow patient visitors during the COVID-19 pandemic? Should the government require them to do so?
It’s been a challenging 12 months for all of us. For the Brawner family, it’s also been full of Hope.
Wednesday was a dark day in American political history, but it also was somewhat liberating for Arkansas’ congressional delegation.
Dr. David Ashby, special to magnoliareporter.com
Community
Nakiya Monea' Cooper was born Wednesday, January 13, 2021 at Magnolia Regional Medical Center. She weighed 6 pounds, 8.2 ounces.
Raising money for the Boys & Girls Club is the goal of a fundraising project by the 2020 Provisional Class of the Magnolia Junior Charity League.
Jane Hammond recently presented a copy of her book, “Mount Vernon: Yesteryear and Beyond” to the genealogy department of Columbia County Library.
As COVID-19 vaccine distribution begins, the Arkansas Senior Medicare Patrol has shared warnings from federal agencies about several emerging fraud schemes related to COVID-19 vaccines.
Harvest Regional Food Bank is returning to Lafayette County with its TEFAP USDA Commodity Mobile Pantry.
Kingston Lanell Easter was born at7:42 p.m. Monday, January 4, 2021 at Magnolia Regional Medical Center. He weighed 6 pounds, 7.6 ounces and was 19 inches long.
Sports
Following the Great American Conference's first three-game week of the 2021 season, the league announced its player of the week honors with Southern Arkansas men's basketball player Jalen Brooks earning the award for the second time in his career.
In an effort to minimize the spread of COVID-19, officials at South Arkansas Community College in El Dorado have elected to hold this season’s men’s and women’s home basketball games without fans in attendance.
The Arkansas Economic Development Commission Division of Rural Services has awarded grants totaling $536,401.58 to promote wildlife education and improve school conservation programs to 150 schools, school districts, and conservation districts in 65 Arkansas counties.
Consistent with COVID-19 protocols the Henderson State women’s basketball program will not be able to play in their next five conference games, and Saturday’s Southern Arkansas at Harding women’s game has been postponed.
MONTICELLO – Until a recent spate of rain and even some snowfall early this week, the lake bed and shoreline of Lake Monticello was being prepared for the day when the lake can refill and become a leading Arkansas fishery again.
With more than a month left in Arkansas’s archery deer season, hunters have checked 214,022 deer during the 2020-21 deer hunting season. That’s more deer than any season since the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission began keeping harvest records in 1938.
