Stories from Wednesday, March 9, 2022

Jonesboro/Poinsett County Mennonite School honored.

State Representative Johnny Rye announced today his bid for re-election. Rye is serving his third term in the Arkansas House. After the recent re-districting, he will be running in the new House District 36, which includes portions of Craighead and Poinsett counties...

The Poinsett County Board of Election Commissioners is announcing that there will be a public meeting on Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. in the conference area of the Poinsett County Annex Building (located at 110 N. East Street in Harrisburg) for candidates to draw for their ballot positions for the 2022 Preferential Primary Election, Nonpartisan General Election and Annual School Election. ...

There will be a commodity distribution in Poinsett County on Wednesday, March 16 from 9:00 a.m. to noon or until food is gone. This will be a drive-thru distribution. There will be three locations for pick-up: Marked Tree Fire Station, 102 Liberty; Trumann Sports Complex, 16179 Pecan Grove Road and Weiner City Hall, 123 W. ...

Trumann will have 15 residents running for various positions, some county and some city, in the upcoming election on May 24. The following is a list of who is running and for what position. Josh Bradley and Matt Miller are running for the Poinsett County Assessor position as current assessor is running for Poinsett County Judge. ...

Trumann Police Chief Jon Redman said on January 28 an officer with the Trumann Police Department tragically had to shoot a dog attempting to attack him. Along with another dog, this dog was running loose in a neighborhood and had attacked another dog, causing injury. ...