The University of Arkansas Hope-Texarkana is proud to announce that Nakia Prater has been awarded the Honors Scholarship to attend the College. This award is $2,400 per academic year. Prater is a graduate of Nevada High School. She is the…
Greetings from Crater of Diamonds State Park! Most people come to Crater of Diamonds to search for diamonds, but the park has a lot more outdoor activities to offer, including camping, fishing, and even geocaching! Geocaching is an outdoor scavenger…
Submissions are being taken until March 10 for the Pitch It Texarkana! entrepreneurial competition. The competition is an opportunity for contestants, 18 years and older, to pitch their technology, product, or service idea to a panel of judges for a…
Two Redwater High School art students are headed to the state competition following their recent success at the Region 8 Visual Arts Scholastic Event (VASE) held in Paris, TX. Additionally, the school garnered 19 Superior Ratings among 11 other competing…
NEW BOSTON, Texas–A repeat sex offender with a history of preying on vulnerable women was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for sexually assaulting a disabled Texarkana woman after sneaking into her home in 2021. Everick Lovosier Monk, 60, was…
The University of Arkansas Hope-Texarkana is proud to announce that Alyssa Bonner has been awarded the Chancellor’s Scholarship to attend the College. This award is $3,400 per academic year. Bonner is a graduate of Blevins High School. She is the…
Zoe Knighton, a junior student from Redwater High School, received Fourth Place in the University Interscholastic League (UIL) State Film Festival recently held in Austin, TX. She is now headed to compete at the Student Television Network National Convention in…
The application for admission to the Licensed Practical Nursing (LPN) Program at the University of Arkansas-Hope campus is now open. Students can apply online at www.uaht.edu from March 1 to May 1, 2023. The LPN program is a full-time, 11-month,…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A man who was convicted of exposing himself to a 3-year-old more than two decades ago was arrested last week for possession of child pornography in Bowie County. Patrick Shane Stacks, 52, was assessed a 10-year probation and ordered…
The City of Texarkana, TX has been awarded an EPA Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund in the amount of $1,000,000. The check was presented at last night’s council meeting on Monday, February 27th, by Region 6 Project Officer Camisha Scott. These…
This week, the Pleasant Grove Education Foundation awarded a total of $62,920.13 to PGISD teachers to purchase new technology and learning materials for their classrooms. 21 grants were given to teachers from pre-k to high school and will impact many…
The Muses Project of Hot Springs, Ark., brings their St. Patrick’s Day celebration to Texarkana on Thursday, March 9 at 7 p.m. at Cabe Hall in the Regional Arts Center. Presented by the Texarkana Regional Arts & Humanities Council, this…
NEW BOSTON, Texas–Twelve Bowie County citizens were chosen Tuesday to decide the case of a man with convictions for sex offenses in California and Arkansas who now stands accused of attacking a vulnerable Texarkana woman in her home in 2021.…
At Monday’s Trustees meeting, TC Board President Kaye Ellison announced her resignation as a TC Trustee. Ellison served on TC’s Board of Trustees in Place 5 for ten years. Dr. Jason Smith, TC President, said Ellison devoted countless hours of…
Atlanta ISD’s Director of Human Resources, Laronda Graf, is running for a place on the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) Board. The Board of Trustees of TRS, the trustee of all plan assets, is responsible for the general administration…
