Education News

Maddox Moreland helps a student at Cave City Elementary's kindergarten select a Valentine jar. Moreland is part of Hana Smith's high school art class who made the Valentine's Day holders for the entire kindergarten class. The Love Bugs delivered the jars to the students on Feb.11. On Fri. Feb. 11, seniors Maddox Moreland and Miquel Bahena and juniors Lucy Snoke and Cadence Milligan dressed as love bugs donning their Valentine’s Day antennas…

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Photo SubmittedTerry “Big T” Williams Black River Technical College’s Black History Month event is scheduled for Thurs. Feb. 24 at 1 p.m. This year’s Black History Month Event, “A Conversation with the Blues,” will feature Terry “Big T” Williams on lead guitar and vocals and Jerry Bone on bass guitar. Mike Doyle, retired KASU manager and ASU instructor, will introduce the featured guests and discuss the roots of the Blues and how…

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Better Beginnings, a program of the Arkansas Department of Human Services Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education focusing on giving children the best possible care, offers structured activities requiring little to no cost and are ideal for constructive, short notice play. These activities are fun for the whole family and show young children that time at home can be an exciting and positive learning experience. “Children are born learning and…

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Vic and Pam Setser Ozarka College recently received a charitable contribution in the amount of $5,000 from Vic and Pam Setser of Stone County to support Ozarka’s Welding Center expansion in downtown Mountain View. The contribution will fully outfit one of 10 welding booths at the center. Each welding station will be equipped with welders with industry driven add-ons, specifically, a “push-pull gun” application used by local Stone County industries.  “Education is…

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Ashton Webber of Ash Flat was named to the fall 2021 President’s List at the University of Central Arkansas at Conway.  Webber was among more than 1,200 students named a Presidential Scholar. To qualify for Presidential Scholar honors in a given semester, a student must earn a 4.0 GPA on a minimum of 12 hours of undergraduate degree credit with no incomplete grades. Zachary Jamora of Cherokee Village, Ark. and Brooke Randall…

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