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- General Dynamics and Today's Power lights up 2.4 megawatts of new solar power in Highland Industrial Park
- Albemarle raises dividend by 1.75 cents per share
- Mike McNeill’s Diary for Wednesday, October 28, 2020: No to Issue 3
- Complex and productive nature of honey bees enthralls Don Williams
- Marines place order for 1 million more Camden-made practice grenade rounds
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General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems (OTS) and Today’s Power, Inc., flipped the switch Wednesday, symbolically energizing two solar arrays in Calhoun County’s Highland Industrial Park.
Albemarle Corporation stockholders will enjoy an increase in their quarterly dividend.
Issue 3 on the Election Day ballot is the one we really loath, and we encourage our readers to vote against it. Simply put, Issue 3 wants to make it more difficult for citizens to place initiatives on the Arkansas ballot. We don’t want this process to become more difficult. It’s hard enough …
Don Williams has enjoyed the complexity of honey bees since he first helped his brother with them in the 1950s.
American Rheinmetall Munition Inc. has been awarded a $32,449,901 modification to previously awarded contract for the production of MK281 MOD 3 40MM high velocity day/night practice cartridges at its Camden facility.
Standard Lithium Ltd. CEO Robert Mintak was a featured guest on Fox Business Networks Mornings with Maria Bartiromo on Monday.
If you want to buy a car here in the U.S. that is made in Korea, you can. Korea makes Hyundai and Kia, brands that have gone from relative obscurity some years back to now capturing roughly six percent of the U.S. car market. Korea also makes toasters, vacuum cleaners, hard drives and smartp…
The Columbia County Election Commission will begin the canvass of absentee ballots at 9 a.m. Thursday at the County Annex building.
Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport has announced expanded community COVID-19 testing this week in Cullen, 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 …
Education
Taylor Elementary School has listed its first nine weeks honor roll for the 2020-2021 academic year.
Taylor High School has named its honor roll for the first nine week grading period of the 2020-2021 academic year.
El Dorado High School students and teachers have been recognized with awards from the Murphy Education Program.
The Rotary Club of Magnolia continues to distribute copies of the “American Heritage Children’s Dictionary” to third-grade students at all schools in Columbia County.
Students were crowned as Southern Arkansas University’s 2020 Homecoming Queen and King.
Each nine weeks, Lafayette County Elementary School holds a drawing for students with good behavior.
Columbia County Sheriff Mike Loe and Deputy Sheriff Jordan Hanson last week presented Emerson School Principal Jim Deloach and School Counselor Queria Adewumi with a $600 check.
Central Elementary School has named its students of the month for October 2020.
The Magnolia School District will observe Red Ribbon Week this year during the week of October 26 - 30.
The Southern Arkansas University Board of Trustees will meet at 2 p.m. Thursday, October 29 in the Reynolds Center Grand Hall on the campus of SAU.
Obituaries
Graveside services for Toshi Pyle, 89, of Leesville, LA will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, October 30, 2020 at the Bethlehem Cemetery in Magnolia.
Early Dunn, 65, of Magnolia passed away Wednesday, October 28,…
Grady Michael Franklin, 62, of Maud, TX passed away on October…
Danny K. Newton, 68, of Magnolia passed away Monday, October 2…
Bertha Lee Dixon died Thursday, October 15, 2020 at Infinity H…
Saquanna Sakita Young began her earthly life on March 14, 1988.
Michael Clifford McKinnis, 59, of Mena, formerly of Columbia C…
Barbara Ann Wiley Burson Knight, 74, of Hot Springs, departed …
Entertainment
The El Dorado Film Festival, presented by the South Arkansas Arts Center and sponsored by Suddenlink, has announced the festival’s full schedule of independent films from around the world.
Magnolia Arts is taking its All Hallows Art Gala to a virtual setting this year.
The Murphy Arts District in El Dorado has announced plans to host a Halloween-themed movie night featuring the cult classic film, “Hocus Pocus,” starring Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker.
TEXarkana’s Ace of Clubs House will celebrate Halloween with a movie and costume party full of suspense and murder.
The South Arkansas Symphony Orchestra announces that the 2020-2021 Season of Harmony will begin with two performances of Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” on November 28, at the El Dorado Municipal Auditorium, featuring the Arkansas Festival Ballet. SASO is offering a matinee and evening performance.
Recent arrests made by the Magnolia Police Department. Many, but not all, these arrests have previously been listed in our daily report Columbia County Justice and Detention Facility bookings and releases.
Opinion
If you want to buy a car here in the U.S. that is made in Korea, you can. Korea makes Hyundai and Kia, brands that have gone from relative obscurity some years back to now capturing roughly six percent of the U.S. car market. Korea also makes toasters, vacuum cleaners, hard drives and smartp…
With so many Arkansans already voting, is it too late for a column about the three proposed constitutional amendments that were submitted by legislators? For those who haven’t voted, here’s a fair and balanced review, with a bone to pick at the end.
A 10-foot-tall “trojan horse” will stop in Texarkana, El Dorado and Magnolia on Friday as part of a campaign to defeat Issue 2 and Issue 3 on the general election ballot.
Let’s look at the bright side in this year filled with hardship, sorrow and acrimony. People are voting peacefully in high numbers, while two candidates in Utah are showing it’s still possible to treat an opponent – and the process – with respect.
Community
October is National Principals Month, and the Magnolia School District recognizes the essential role that principals and their assistants play in making a school great.
A four-hour workshop on Tuesday, November 17 in Magnolia will provide vital information to family caregivers of people living with Alzheimer’s/dementia.
SouthArk Community Education presents “QuickBooks Desktop Overview” with instructor Crystal Willis, CPA.
SouthArk Community Education will present the latest in its “Holiday Culinary Series: Farm To Table with Chef Lilli Ellen.”
SouthArk Community Education will present a mayhaw-cranberry salsa making class.
Collection week for Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes will be November 16-23.
Sports
The long wait for people who love staying at the DeRoche Ridge campground at DeGray Lake Resort State Park is over.
The Columbia Christian School junior varsity volleyball team won the Heartland Christian Athletic Association state champion.
The Texas A&M University-Texarkana Athletics Department has quarantined three of the university’s intercollegiate athletic teams after a player on each team tested positive for COVID-19 over the weekend.
Watch video highlights of Magnolia's 53-33 football victory against Hot Springs on Friday, October 16, 2020. Video by Stacy Kilgore, special to magnoliareporter.com .
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission approved last week changes to Arkansas’s regulations on recreational fishing, commercial fishing and aquaculture.
The annual Southern Arkansas University Intercollegiate Rodeo is this weekend at Story Arena.
