Stories from Thursday, February 6, 2025

Trumann Junior High Quiz Bowl team takes third place.

Local legislators attend event.

U.S. Senators John Boozman (R-AR) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) applauded Senate passage of the Laken Riley Act by a bipartisan vote of 64-35. The legislation provides U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and state governments more tools to fight crime committed by illegal immigrants...

For the second time in school history, the East Poinsett County High School is named as an Arkansas Reward School from the Arkansas Division of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE). The Arkansas School Recognition Program provides financial awards to the top 10 percent of public schools that achieve high student performance on the state-required assessments in grades three through 10 and the top 10 percent of public schools that achieve high student academic growth. ...

Two years after the indictment was handed down, the meth case involving Randy Daniel has been settled. Daniel was sentenced to time served and will be under federal supervised release for the next five years U.S. District Judge James M. Moody Jr. ruled on Thursday...

U.S. Term Limits (USTL), the leader in the national, non-partisan movement to limit terms for elected officials, is gathering support from state lawmakers across the nation. Its mission is to get 34 states to apply for an amendment proposal convention specific to term limits on Congress. 2025 Arkansas State House Rep. Johnny Rye (district 36), has committed support for term limits on Congress by signing the term limits convention pledge...

Harper Miller and Preslee Fraser and family named Trumann School District Family of the Week.

Recent reports have raised concerns about the potential impact of avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, on domestic cats. While avian flu primarily affects birds, cases of transmission to mammals, including cats, have been documented in certain circumstances...

If you haven’t already begun, it is time to start applying nitrogen to the wheat crop. We need to try and get nitrogen applied as soon as possible once the weather allows, so that it will be available to the plant when it needs it, especially on those fields that were planted late this past fall and have reduced tillering and limited plant development. ...

Annaleigh Penter, of Trumann was named to the Mississippi State University fall 2024 Deans' List. Penter is among 2,661 students who attained this honor. To be named to the Deans' List, a student must have achieved a grade-point average between 3.5 and 3.79, based on a 4.0 scale, while completing at least 12 semester hours of coursework with no incomplete grades or grades lower than a C...

Sydney Dale of Fisher, AR, was named a Presidential Scholar at the University of Central Arkansas for fall 2024. Dale was among more than 1,200 students named as a Presidential Scholar. Students must achieve a 4.0 GPA with a minimum course load of 12 credit hours to qualify as a Presidential Scholar...

Jalen Elrod scored 18 points as Trumann picked up a 49-46 non-conference win over Rector last Tuesday (Jan. 28) in high school boys’ non-conference basketball action at Wildcat Gym. The Cougars took an early 2-0 lead with two free throws as Elrod hit triple twine for Trumann to make 3-2 Wildcats. ...

Harrisburg jumped out a 17-5 lead after the opening quarter and increased that lead each quarter on their way to 77-50 win over their neighboring rival Cross County in Weiner. The game was play at the Cardinals Nest due to flooding in the gym at the Harrisburg campus...

EPC erased a 19 point halftime deficit, which included only allowing two points in the fourth quarter, to come away with a 48-45 win over BIC this past Friday in 2A-3 conference action in Lepanto. Kendra Towell gave BIC the early 1-0 lead hitting one of two free throws before Kyla Harston scored in the paint for EPC to make it 2-1 Lady Warriors. ...

Area teams bring home hardware from pee-wee post-season tournament in Trumann.