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- Arkansas Lottery Scholarship Deadline set for July 1
- Mike McNeill’s Diary for Thursday, June 8, 2023: Welcome, Juneteenth and United Community Organization
- Powerball has two $500 winners in Arkansas
- Columbia County jail bookings for Thursday, June 8, 2023
- Pedals for Compassion retools for October "gravel ride"
News
We’re pleased to welcome back today a seasonal advertiser, the United Community Organization. The UCO is promoting an event that’s rising in local popularity, which is the annual Juneteenth celebration. The UCO is promoting the festival and its venue change to the Columbia County Fairgrounds…
There was no grand prize winner Wednesday night of the national Powerball lottery.
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 …
FAYETTEVILLE — Cengiz Koparan knows first-hand the need for agricultural technology.
Our occassional reminder about using your Facebook page to spread information, without also sending an email with the same information to news@magnoliareporter.com. Your Facebook page may have a few hundred or a few thousand friends. But, only a few dozen or a few hundred of those friends wi…
Columbia County's unemployment rate (not seasonally adjusted) is at 3.3 percent for April, down from 3.5 percent in March, according to a preliminary county by county report released June 1 by the Arkansas Division of Workforce Services.
What happens to the farm when something happens to the current generation?
A handful of South Arkansas road projects have been scheduled for bid lettings by the Arkansas Department of Transportation through the end of the year.
There was no grand prize winner of Tuesday’s national Mega Millions lottery.
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 …
Education
July 1 is the deadline for students to apply for the Arkansas Academic Challenge Scholarship enrolling in a two- or four-year college or university in the fall.
Magnolia Freshman Academy has released its Honor Roll for the fourth nine-week grading period of the 2022-2023 academic year, and for the second semester.
Henderson State University has announced the students listed on the Chancellor’s List and Honor Roll for the Spring 2023 semester.
Kaitlyn Hill, a 2023 graduate of Apostolic Christian Academy, was selected to receive the John and Ordell Becton Memorial Scholarship from ACA.
Nevada Elementary School has released its honor roll for the fourth nine-week period of the 2022-2023 academic year.
Nevada High School has announced its fourth nine-week honor roll of the 2022-2023 academic year.
Lyon College of Batesville has named the 120 Scots that have made the Spring 2023 Dean’s List. Students must earn a 3.75 or higher GPA and take a minimum of 12 credit hours during the semester to appear on the list.
Forty students received their professional Louisiana Tech Nursing pins May 19 in Howard Auditorium on the eve of their graduation as Tech’s Division of Nursing held its Pinning Ceremony for the Spring 2023 graduates.
Taylor Elementary School has announced its honor roll for the fourth nine-week grading period of the 2022-2023 academic year.
Mac Cross of Magnolia from Magnolia High School was elected as a State Representative for his congressional district at Arkansas Boys State 2023, a summer leadership and civic engagement experience sponsored by the American Legion.
Obituaries
After a lengthy courageous ALS battle, Laura Gail Atkinson, 71, passed away peacefully in her home in League City, TX, on Saturday, June 3, 2023, surrounded by family.
Margie Nell Ferguson-Turner was born to the late Albert and Wa…
Ja’Quarious Deante’ “Telly” Easter was born September 2, 2004 …
Elven Mason Gurnea III, 70, of Magnolia passed away on Saturda…
Melbalene Hicks, 89, of Marysville passed away June 3, 2023 at…
Gertrude Vernell Towns Henderson, founding matriarch and gener…
Lester James Hawthorne, affectionately known as “LL”, was born…
Norah Travis Penigar, 68, of Emerson passed away Wednesday, Ma…
Entertainment
Murphy Arts District in El Dorado has announced that “Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen” featuring Patrick Myers as Freddie Mercury, will perform in the First Financial Music Hall on Friday, July 28.
John Manion will give beginner’s and blues rock intermediate classes in guitar in July and August at the Magnolia Arts Center.
Although the Magnolia Blossom Festival’s Saturday night festivities focus on a delicious steak, the festival days allow arts and crafts vendors to showcase their wares in hopes of making a sale.
The World Championship Steak Cook-off became a reality in 1990 and it has been drawing hungry mouths and growling stomachs to the Magnolia Blossom Festival ever since.
The Arkansas Arts Council is currently accepting entries for the 2024 “Small Works on Paper” juried exhibition.
Plans have been announced for Columbia County Juneteenth festivities by the United Community Organization.
Opinion
Lawmakers passed the LEARNS Act overwhelmingly this past legislative session, but two decisions this past week have left it in somewhat of a legal limbo.
magnoliareporter.com readers strongly agree that Americans have become more paranoid.
magnoliareporter.com readers seem slightly more willing to travel during their summer vacation this year over last year, but a plurality still plan to remain home.
Could the consequences of complying with the Arkansas Constitution be so dire that the state Supreme Court should ignore what that document actually says?
Community
FAYETTEVILLE — As farmer's markets reopen for the summer, communities are feeling and tasting the impact of the Center for Arkansas Farms and Food's programs.
A fish fry for the benefit of The Caring Place will be held from 5-7 p.m. Monday, June 19 at the First United Methodist Church bus barn.
Harvest Regional Food Bank will distribute the food boxes directly from its truck from 9-11 a.m. Wednesday, June 14 or until all boxes have been distributed.
The Dollar General Literacy Foundation has announced its largest one-day donation in the Foundation’s 30-year history. In total, more than $13 million was awarded to support adult, family, and summer literacy programs across the country, which will impact approximately 3.1 million individual…
CLARKSVILLE — The Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station and microbrewery partners across the state are exploring Southern-grown hops and their unique characteristics for beer brewing.
The Arkansas Department of Agriculture’s third annual “Free Tree Fridays” campaign resulted in the distribution of 10,000 trees during 28 events held across the state each Friday from March 17 through April 28.
Sports
Although this Saturday was the original date for the Pedals for Compassion Foundation ride, the board of directors of Compassion’s Foundation, Inc., has decided to take the event into the fall and make the ride a gravel one in October instead of one on the highways.
Applications for the 2023 Arkansas alligator season are available from 8 a.m. June 10 through midnight June 18.
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has reported the discovery of a Northern Snakehead fish in Concordia Parish.
Bait shops across Arkansas are preparing for another wave of bream to go to their spawning “beds” and the subsequent wave of anglers looking to fill their cricket cages to chase these feisty fighters during the prime days of the bream spawn.
JACKSONVILLE — The Five Rivers Trap Club team from Pocahontas worked their way through a grueling competition in the senior division state championship event of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s Youth Shooting Sports Program at the Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation Jacksonville Shootin…
After five weekends of stiff competition and a grueling six-match elimination championship, the young shooters from Corning Trap Team Squad 2 came out victorious at the 2023 state championship of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s Youth Shooting Sports Program held today at the Arkansas…
