Stories from Thursday, January 28, 2010

A voluntary administrative annexation involving the Weiner and Delight School Districts was agreed upon by the districts at a special meeting last week. "We have signed an agreement to go with Delight," said Susan Johnson, president of the Weiner School Board. ...

Thanks to an "Enhancing Education through Technology" grant, every classroom at Cedar Park Elementary School will now have top-notch equipment. According to Trumann School District's Karleen Sheets, the district won a $195,000 Enhancing Education through Technology grant from the Arkansas Department of Education. The money became available through American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds...

Second Judicial District Circuit Judge John Fogleman was the guest speaker at the Trumann Lions Club Eednesday, Jan. 20 and discussed an array of topics including the Supreme Court and the West Memphis Three case...

Marked Tree High School was the recipient this week of a $25,000 College Access Challenge Grant from the Arkansas Department of High Education. According to Dale Ellis, communications director with the Arkansas Department of Higher Education, the state of Arkansas received $1 million from the U.S. Department of Education to spend of higher education awareness...

After six years of writing a column for this page, this column will be my last. This Friday, Jan. 29, is my last day at the Poinsett County Democrat Tribune. When I came to work at the newspaper in January of 2004, I had just turned 23 years old. Josh and I had only been married six months so we were newlyweds. Boy, a lot has changed since then!...