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  • School board talks budget, ArDOT acquisitions

    The district was able to move $2.6 million from its general fund to its building fund. Read more

  • Dispatch Desk – Wednesday, Aug. 18

    Dispatch Desk – Wednesday, Aug. 18

    Deputy responds to Shields Lumber Co. for report of slashed minivan tires Read more

  • Arkadelphia Schools: Enrollment ‘Up’

    Arkadelphia Schools: Enrollment ‘Up’

    By Joel PhelpsThe Arkadelphian Enrollment in the Arkadelphia Public School District is up by nearly 100 students compared to the 2020-2021 school year, according to preliminary numbers announced Tuesday evening at the Board of Education meeting. [adrotate banner=”3″] Arkadelphia Superintendent Karla Neathery told the board during her report there were 1,861 students enrolled in the… Read more

  • Ouachita gets part of $6.1M grant for virus research

    The grant will establish a Host-Virus Evolutionary Dynamics Institute (HVEDI) at UA with an HVEDI hub site at Ouachita. Read more

  • Dispatch Desk – Monday, Aug. 16

    Deputies were dispatched to Veolia in the Clark County Industrial Park, where someone had driven through the security gate. Read more

  • APD offers tips on Back-to-School traffic

    APD offers tips on Back-to-School traffic

    Monday, Aug. 16, will mark the first day of school for Arkadelphia Public Schools. Children will be crossing streets, waiting on buses or traversing sidewalks. Vehicles will line the once-empty streets as parents drop off or pick up their children, and newly licensed teenagers — ones who just woke up, probably from little sleep —… Read more