Taylor High School has named its honor roll for the first nine week grading period of the 2020-2021 academic year.

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.

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.

Magnolia will conduct its rescheduled Homecoming activities on Friday, November 6.

The Magnolia School District will observe Red Ribbon Week this year during the week of October 26 - 30.

HOPE – A plan to convert each Friday into a “virtual instruction day” to accommodate teacher workloads beyond the regular class day created by the bifurcated on-site/virtual system employed by the Hope Public Schools during the COVID-19 crisis was adopted Monday by the Hope Board of Education.

Magnolia community leaders took part Tuesday in Columbia Christian School’s “Be the Light” campaign.

Students who are attending Magnolia School District classes virtually – along with their parents and guardians – may take part in a drive-through flu clinic starting at 9 a.m. Friday at Magnolia High School.

The Hampton School District, in partnership with North Little Rock's Today's Power, Inc. (TPI), has announced the school district’s new solar project.

The Arkansas Department of Agriculture's Forestry Division has selected 15 playgrounds as participants in the Shade Trees on Playgrounds program.

The solar power industry continues to glow in South Arkansas with the commissioning this week of a new array for the Bearden School District, and a groundbreaking for a facility in Star City.

Two South Arkansas schools have won categories in the 2020 Arkansas Grown School Garden Contest.

Lafayette County Elementary School has named its Students of the Month for September.

The Nevada School District shifted to a virtual learning at home environment on Wednesday, which will remain in place through Friday.

Magnolia School District students will attend classes remotely on Fridays only starting this Friday, and continuing through the final day of the semester on December 18.

Campus principals told the Magnolia School Board on Monday about the first weeks of the school year.

magnoliareporter.com took a brief tour last week through the new Magnolia High School Performing Arts Center under construction along East Greene Street.

Central Elementary School has named its Students of the Month for September 2020.

The Magnolia School District will hold its annual Flu Immunization Clinic on the following dates.

Magnolia High School students will switch to a virtual learning environment through the rest of the week due to new COVID-19 cases.

The Hope School Board met Monday in a meeting that mixed a virtual meeting with several board members in-person at the school administration building

The Magnolia School Board heard reports from elementary principals during Monday night’s meeting.

The Magnolia School District has received a $290,000 grant for literacy skills education.

The Magnolia School District requests that students commit to either the virtual or on-campus option by Friday, September 25 to allow schools to finalize rosters.

Taylor FFA members competed both virtually and in person in the State Agriscience Fair and Leadership Development Events.

The Magnolia School District has received more than $70,000 in grants to assure that students receive fresh fruits and vegetables with some of their school meals.

Members of FRA (Fleet Reserve Association) Branch 98 invite all students in grades 7 through 12 to participate in the Association’s 2020-2021 Americanism Essay Contest. Participants are invited to submit a 350-word essay centered on this year’s theme: “The Bill of Rights and me.”

ROSSTON – All good things must come to an end and so it goes for Rick McAfee’s tenure as superintendent of the Nevada School District.

Public schools in Magnolia and across Arkansas open today for the new school year – two weeks later than scheduled to allow more prep time for COVID-19 pandemic precautions.

The Rosston-based Nevada School District announced Friday afternoon that it will briefly delay the opening of fall semester classes due to a single case of COVID-19 among staff members.

The deadline to apply for the seventh annual Arkansas Grown School Garden of the Year Contest is September 13.

Columbia Christian Schools began classes last Monday and with guidelines in place to prevent COVID-19 spread, the school year is off to a good start, according to Superintendent Ted Waller.

With the COVID-19 pandemic in full swing this summer, in addition to college courses being affected, so too were the summer camps and learning experiences hosted each year at the University of Arkansas campus.

Preparations for the start of Magnolia’s school year amid the COVID-19 pandemic were outlined during Monday’s School Board meeting.

Hope Public Schools students in grade 5-12 will have to opportunity to begin building a personal library of books through a $100,000 grant awarded the HPS.

Future School of Fort Smith has been awarded $1.2 million from the Windgate Foundation to be used toward the expansion of a 9th grade class in 2021.

Parents of children heading to school later this month likely have a new addition to their back-to-school supply lists: face masks.

The Arkansas Department of Higher Education has awarded Arkansas Academic Challenge Scholarships to 50 Magnolia High School students.

State officials made clear on Wednesday that they expect all Arkansas public school districts to have “minimum, relevant and engaging” onsite learning opportunities each day of the five-day school week despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Magnolia Junior Charity League’s “Cram the Bus” campaign for supplies for students is under way.

The Magnolia School District has made adjustments to its official 2020-2021 school calendar to reflect Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s order to start the school year later.

The Lafayette County School District has issued its school supply list

An improved broadcast signal for Arkansas PBS is Southwest Arkansas may be part of the state’s CARES Act funding package.

The Magnolia School District released on Thursday its plan to reopen schools during the COVID-19 pandemic.