Hempstead County News

​“Mosaic” is defined in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as “a surface decoration made by inlaying small pieces of variously colored material to form pictures or patterns” — also, “the process of making it.”  Sheila Keever, an artist who is very skilled […]

The Hempstead County Farm Bureau Bureau held it’s annual meeting Tuesday October 15th.  The Hempstead County Farm Bureau has been in existence 82 years and one of the first chartered in the state.  Farm Bureau […]

HOPE – Scout Troop 5 went on their annual DeGray Lake Water Sports Campout. The group stayed at Ross-Rhodes Scout Reservation near Bismark, Arkansas. Dr. Donald Sitzes, Ed Flagg and Ken Shafer brought their ski […]

HOPE – Rainbow of Challenges (ROC) will host their first-ever “ROCturnal Fright Night” Haunted House during the Halloween season on October 25th, 26th, and Halloween Night, October 31 from 6:30-9:45 each night.   The haunted […]

HOPE – On October 9, 2019 at approximately 8:05am, officers of the Hope Police Department arrested Darquis Warren, 30, of Hope AR, and charged him with aggravated assault. The arrest was made in the 300 […]

WARRANTS SERVED: 10.7.19 John Witcher, 29, of Hope, AR                                                                                   Failure to Appear Glenda Stephens, 50, Blevins, AR Failure to Comply 10.8.2019 Tony Eatmon, 18, of Prescott, AR Failure to Comply 10.09.19 Seneca McFadden, 32, […]

Hempstead County Judge Jerry Crane has temporarily lifted the burn ban due to a sufficient amount of rainfall as of Monday, October 14. 

Lilly Allen, 13, of Blevins, a member of the SWAAC, recently won three first place ribbons in various categories at the Arkansas State Fair.She won in the junior categories of human portrait-colored pencil, portrait-charcoal, and […]