Stories from Thursday, August 9, 2018

Harrisburg School District filled its last remaining coaching position last week with the hire of a new boys' basketball coach. The hire completes the coaching staffs of all the schools in Poinsett County. Here is a breakdown of the coaches for the upcoming school year...

Arkansas State senior running back Warren Wand is a preseason candidate for the 2018 Doak Walker Award, presented annually to the nation’s premiere running back. Wand finished the 2017 campaign by rushing for 715 yards and six touchdowns to lead the Red Wolves’ rushing attack for the second straight season. ...

Area players showcase talent in front of college coaches.

Marked Tree Indians run through drills preparing for upcoming football season.

Poinsett County Sheriff Kevin Molder has been making the rounds discussing the one cent sales tax which will be on the general election ballot in November. Recently, he spoke to both the Trumann Lions Club and the American Legion in Lepanto about why he was asking for the tax, which will go toward the sheriff's office and detention center if approved by voters...

Tammie Stanford, secretary/treasurer of the Poinsett County Fair Board, spoke to the Harrisburg Rotary Club last Thursday about the events for the upcoming Poinsett County Fair to be held Aug. 14-18 at the fairgrounds in Harrisburg. Sew It, Grow It, Show It is the theme for this year's fair with the first event being the Poinsett County Fair Queen Pageant, which will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 11, at the Harrisburg High School Fine Arts Center...

During School Breakfast Month in March, the Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance and Arkansas No Kid Hungry campaign posed a challenge to Arkansas schools as a means of increasing breakfast participation rates (percentage of all students who eat breakfast at school). ...