Other Days: May 20, 2026

10  YEARS  AGOMAY  18,  2016The Arkansas Foodbank has approved an agreement to help support the formation of a community food pantry in Rison that could launch this summer.

Other Days: May 13, 2026

10  YEARS  AGOMAY  11,  2016After nearly two hours of discussion, the Woodlawn School Board voted Monday night to spend $250,000 from the district's building fund and use a $250,000 low-interest loan to build a new library and renovate the old library into an all-sports weight room/training complex.

Other Days: May 6, 2026

10  YEARS  AGOMAY  4,  2016It took two attempts, but the Rison City Council voted 4-2 Tuesday night to allow Mayor Vernon Dollar to move forward with securing a loan of up to $350,000 to install new digital water meters to every customer on the city's water system.

Other Days: April 29, 2026

10  YEARS  AGOAPRIL  27,  2016A Pine Bluff man, fleeing from the Lincoln County Sheriff's Dept. on possible theft charges, was apprehended last Wednesday afternoon following a manhunt in a wooded area off Hwy. 63 between Rowell and Pansy.

Other Days: April 22, 2026

10  YEARS  AGOAPRIL  20,  2016Following a pattern experienced by most schools in the state, four of the five schools in Cleveland County saw their "letter grades" drop this year after the Arkansas Department of Education released the 2015 Performance Report Cards late last week.

Other Days: April 15, 2026

10  YEARS  AGOAPRIL  13,  2016Teachers in the Cleveland County School District received an unexpected pay raise Monday night, when the school board decided by a 5-2 vote to double Supt. Johnnie Johnson's recommendation and give certified staff an across-the-board $1,000 pay increase.

Other Days: April 8, 2026

10  YEARS  AGOAPRIL  6,  2016Right after the county Road Department was beginning to make progress on damages from recent flooding, another round of heavy rain hit the county last Wednesday, wiping out many of those repairs and forcing Cleveland County Judge Gary Spears to consider how the county...

Other Days: April 1, 2026

10  YEARS  AGOMARCH  30,  2016The Rison City Council will decide Tuesday if it would like to move forward on a possible $350,000 loan that would provide the city with enough money to replace the city's aging mechanical water meters with new digital meters.

Other Days: March 25, 2026

10  YEARS  AGOMARCH  23,  2016While Cleveland County Judge Gary Spears says the price tag for repairs to roads damaged by heavy rains earlier this month is still expected to come in about $100,000, he said the cost is just a fraction of what it would have been just a few years ago.

Other Days: March 18, 2026

10  YEARS  AGOMARCH  16,  2016Heavy rain over a six-day period last week closed schools, flooded state highways and left the Cleveland County Road Dept. with a massive repair effort that Judge Gary Spears said could take a month to complete.