Arkansas Art Center Performs ‘The Arkansas Traveler’

A three-member cast from the Arkansas Arts Center’s Children’s Theater on Tour presented an original production entitled “The Arkansas Traveler” last Friday to students from Kingsland and Rison Elementaries inside the Kingsland Auditorium. Written by Alan Keith Smith, the production was inspired in...

Revitalizing Downtown Subject of Meeting

Meeting to be Held March 1 To Consider Effort To Help Revive Downtown Rison RISON – Last week’s announcement that Fordyce Bank & Trust will be buying The Bank of Rison left some wondering if yet another business in downtown Rison will soon be going away. Jim Hulse, president and CEO of Fordyce...

New Concession Stand, Practice Facility Nearly Finished at RHS

RISON – After more than five years in the making, the Cleveland County School District is close to finishing up what will be the last major component of the new baseball/softball complex – the concession stand and restroom facility. A work crew from the City of Rison Water Department was busy...

County’s Jobless Rate Finishes ‘11 Below 8 Percent

RISON – Cleveland County finished 2011 with an unemployment rate of 7.9 percent in December, better than the jobless rate for all but one of its neighboring counties but still below the state average. The Arkansas Department of Workforce Services reported that approximately 300 of Cleveland County’s...

Filing Period Begins Thursday for Election

RISON – The filing period for candidates who would like to participate in the 2012 primary elections begins at noon this Thursday, Feb. 23, and continues through noon next Thursday, March 1. All local candidates, regardless of office or party affiliation, must register for their respective offices...