Brenda Bernet
Recent Stories
Parks Course Lets Students ‘Study Away’
University Of The Ozarks Class Visits 5 National Parks
Scotti Burnside, 19, will cap her sophomore year at the University of the Ozarks with a two-week trip hiking and camping at five national parks she studied this semester with nine other students in a national parks course. Continue reading...
Huntsville math teachers honored
Huntsville High School math teachers received accolades in Little Rock this week because of the high scores students earned on the state’s End-of-Course algebra and geometry tests. Continue reading...
Passion Play to start 46th season
Officials for The Great Passion Play in Eureka Springs are expecting the largest opening-weekend crowd in at least 10 years next week. Continue reading...
4th District lost, gained in redraw
It’s only area to lose blacks
Arkansas’s 4th Congressional District was the only district in the state to lose black residents as a result of redistricting in 2011, according to U.S. Census figures, released last week, that detail demographics within the districts. Continue reading...
Lavaca schools provide eye care
In rural communities, going to an eye doctor can require parents to take off from work and pull their children out of school for at least a half day, said Dr. Hon Chung. Continue reading...
Classmates rally to cheer on takers of Benchmark Exams
Rally seen as way to calm nerves as stressful week nears
Loud chants of “Let’s get fired up!” and “We are fired up!” filled the hallway at Willis Shaw Elementary School in Springdale as kindergartners, and first- and second-graders wished good luck to their peers in the third-fifth grades on this week’s state Benchmark Exams. Continue reading...
County’s first full-time youth probation officer leaving job
Madison County’s first full-time juvenile probation officer believes all children have potential, she said. Continue reading...
Out-of-state job commutes require drive
Arkansas businesses draw workers from near and far
Mike Swart lives in St. Louis on the weekends, but drives five hours to Bentonville for work every week, typically spending Tuesday through Friday in Benton County. Continue reading...
Hundreds celebrate day Army sheared Elvis
FORT SMITH — Carroll Newman sat in a chair in the barbershop at Fort Chaffee for his first military buzz cut in February 1958, a short time before Elvis Presley did the same. Continue reading...
Dream B.I.G. links mentors, Delta girls
Program offers concern, motivation
Rayneisha Miller, 17, of Marvell wore a Bradley University T-shirt one day while walking with her sister to their grandmother’s house. Continue reading...
