Hempstead County News

LITTLE ROCK – The Arkansas Department of Agriculture has announced the complete list of recipients for funding through the Arkansas Meat and Poultry Processing Grant Program. The program was previously approved and provided funding of […]

HOPE – Hempstead County’s unemployment rate is outperforming the region, state, and nation. Steve Harris, president of the Hempstead County Economic Development Corporation, said the county’s August rate was 6 percent, compared to the state’s […]

LITTLE ROCK – Doreen Antley with the Hempstead County Women’s Farm Bureau Committee donated all 8 lbs of the committee’s  pop tabs that were collected for the Ronald McDonald House. There to receive the tabs […]

  HOPE – There will be a ServSafe Course on November 3rd & 4th at Sheba’s Restaurant, 1013 North Hervey Street in Hope. Class will be from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. The participation fee […]

HOPE – The University of Arkansas Hope-Texarkana Chancellor Search Committee, appointed by Dr. Donald R. Bobbitt on October 9, will hold its initial meeting tomorrow (October 16) to formally begin the chancellor search process. The […]

BLEVINS – Blevins School Superintendent has released the following statement on a pending update to a coming schedule change: Blevins School District will be implementing a new schedule change, for both elementary and high school […]

WARRANTS SERVED: 10.05.20 Regina Barton, 41, of Waldo, AR                                                                  Failure to Appear Diamond Malone, 23, of McCaskill, AR                                                        Failure to Appear 10.7.20 Terry Peterson, 21, of Prescott, AR                                                                Failure to Appear 10.8.20 Miriam Mondragon-Arellano, […]

HOPE – Hope’s Troop 5 held their Wilderness Survival Camp October 9-11. The Survival Class was camped on the bank of Bodcaw Creek at the Lester Sitzes Farm located at Shover Springs. A Base camp […]