by UAM Athletics | Apr 26, 2022 | News, Sports
Chiara Sturaro, a member of the University of Arkansas-Monticello women’s golf team, has qualified for the 2022 NCAA Central Region Tournament. The tournament will be held May 2-4 at the Hot Springs Country Club. Sturaro is the first UAM individual to...
by Seark Today | Apr 20, 2022 | News, Sports
David Midlick, who has coached on both the NCAA Division I and Division II levels, has been hired to lead the women’s basketball team at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. He is a former women’s head basketball coach at Austin Peay State...
by University of Arkansas-Monticello | Apr 18, 2022 | News, News Archive
Kingwood Forestry Services is again giving back to the University of Arkansas at Monticello, establishing a $30,000 endowment to help University of Arkansas at Monticello graduate students with their forestry studies. Kingwood, based in Monticello, provides...
by Seark Today | Apr 14, 2022 | News
A Desha County woman was fatally shot Wednesday afternoon at her home, according to State Police. Joan Lemonds, 68, of 1769 Arkansas Highway 277, west of Watson, was pronounced dead shortly before 1 p.m. The Desha County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man who is...
by News Release | Apr 14, 2022 | News
A Monticello man was convicted Wednesday of selling methamphetamine three different times in 2018. A federal jury convicted Ramien “Rambo” Collins, 40, on all three counts, following a two-day trial that featured videos of all three sales. The jury returned their...
by Seark Today | Apr 14, 2022 | News
A Rison woman died Wednesday after a severe thunderstorm moved through Rison downing a tree onto a mobile home. The Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office received a call at 4:44 p.m. from someone saying a tree had fallen on a mobile home in Rison, trapping the...
by U of A System Division of Agriculture | Apr 13, 2022 | News
Witnessing a total solar eclipse can be a once-in-a-lifetime experience and on April 8, 2024, when the path of a total eclipse will touch 53 of Arkansas’ 75 counties, many in-state organizations are preparing to use the opportunity for tourism, marketing and...
by University of Arkansas-Monticello | Apr 11, 2022 | News
A year after becoming the University of Arkansas at Monticello’s first Forester for the Future Scholarship winner, Shylee Head has shown that she can take the heat. Head, of Mena, and 16 other students were on the front lines of UAM’s fire management course...
by News Release | Apr 7, 2022 | News
The Arkansas Department of Agriculture is accepting scholarship applications from students majoring in agriculture or an agriculture-related field at one of the following universities: Arkansas State University, Arkansas Tech University Southern Arkansas University...
by News Release | Apr 7, 2022 | News
A Mississippi archeologist will give a public lecture at the University of Arkansas at Monticello on April 21 about his Natchez battlefield research. In his talk, “The Search for ‘Missing’ Mounds and Traces of a 1730 Battle at the Grand Village of the Natchez...
by Seark Today | Apr 5, 2022 | News
Members of the Arkansas Legislature have created a forestry caucus to advance policies benefiting the state’s forestry industry. The caucus includes 19 state senators and 67 state representatives. State Sen. Ben Gilmore (R- Crossett) and state Rep. Howard M....
by News Release | Apr 4, 2022 | News
Star City High School art teacher Roger Darren High has been elected to serve as the next president of the Arkansas Art Educators, a statewide organization of art teachers. High will serve for two years as president-elect before beginning a two-year term as president...
by Seark Today | Mar 31, 2022 | News
A Monticello woman died, her passenger was injured, and the driver of another vehicle was injured in a crash Wednesday afternoon on the U.S. 278 bypass in Monticello. Peggy Hallman, 67, of Monticello driving east on U.S. 278 in rainy weather when her vehicle...
by Seark Today | Mar 30, 2022 | News
Six area residents were among 160 Arkansans Gov. Asa Hutchinson recently appointed to state boards, commissions, committees and courts. Miles Goggans of Star City was appointed to the Arkansas Forestry Commission. The term expires on January 14, 2031. Goggans replaces...
by Seark Today | Mar 30, 2022 | News, Sports
Mason Philley, a pitcher for the University of Arkansas-Monticello baseball team, has been named NCAA Division II Pitcher of the Week by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association for pitching a perfect game Saturday in the Weevils’ 12-0 win...
by Seark Today | Mar 29, 2022 | News
The driver of a 2010 Lexus died after the vehicle struck a tractor Tuesday morning in rural Lincoln County, according to a State Police preliminary report. Shavie Ward, 28, of Dumas was driving north on U.S. 65, 1.6 miles north of Arkansas 388, behind a...
by Seark Today | Mar 29, 2022 | News
A Drew County man died Monday evening in crash on Arkansas 293 in rural Drew County, according to State Police. Clinton D. Waldrup, 47, of Selma (Drew County) was traveling south near the 450 block of Arkansas 293 around 5 p.m. when the Kawasaki he was...
by News Release | Mar 28, 2022 | News
Twenty-six Star City School District students from Jimmy Brown Elementary School and Star City High School have their artwork included in the 2022 Arkansas Art Educators Southeast Regional Art Show at the University of Arkansas at Monticello sponsored by the...
by University of Arkansas-Monticello | Mar 28, 2022 | News
UAM Natural Resources graduate student Cassandra Hug recently won first place in the 11th annual Dr. John Adams student poster contest at the 68th Annual Southern Hardwood Forest Research Group meeting. The meeting, which was held March 22 online via Microsoft...
by News Release | Mar 28, 2022 | Events, News
The Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas is looking for performers to help bring a classic fairy tale to the stage this summer. In-person auditions for the musical “Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella” are set for April 8-10, 2022, at the Arts...
by Seark Today | Mar 24, 2022 | News, Sports
William “Hud” Jackson, the head football coach at the University of Arkansas at Monticello, has been appointed UAM’s director of athletics. He will continue as the head coach of the Boll Weevil football team, according to a news release from the...
by Seark Today | Mar 23, 2022 | Crime & Courts, News
State Police arrested a Jacksonville man Wednesday morning in connection with the March 19 shooting at a car show in Dumas. Brandon Deandra Knight, 22, of Jacksonville was taken into custody at 9:40 a.m. as he was being released from a Dumas hospital, according...
by Seark Today | Mar 22, 2022 | News
The Arkansas Economic Development Commission has awarded more than $7 million in community grants to 30 cities and counties, including Arkansas City, McGehee, Wilmot and Crossett. Grants totaling $4,753,478 were awarded under the General Assistance set-aside, part of...
by U of A System Division of Agriculture | Mar 18, 2022 | News
With gas prices hitting new all-time highs in March, Arkansans are feeling the pinch at the pumps. The average cost of a gallon of regular gas nationally was $4.27 on March 18, up from $2.88 a year prior, according to the American Automobile Association. Earlier this...
by Seark Today | Mar 16, 2022 | News, Sports
The University of Arkansas-Monticello baseball team scattered 19 hits over nine innings to power the Weevils to a 19-14 win over No. 5 ranked Southern Arkansas University in a mid-week game in Magnolia. The Weevils scored 19 runs on 19 hits, including a grand slam by...
by University of Arkansas-Monticello | Mar 16, 2022 | News
The Arkansas Forestry Division and the University of Monticello College of Forestry, Agriculture and Natural Resources recently added more trees to the UAM campus for use in the school’s plant identification classes. “Some of the plants are...
by News Release | Mar 11, 2022 | News, Sports
Registration is now open for the Seark Miracle League Spring 2022 season. Spring ball is free of charge to all of our athletes this year. To register, click the registration link at searkmiracleleague.com For more information, go to searkmiracleleague.com. Miracle...
by University of Arkansas-Monticello | Mar 9, 2022 | News
After nearly a 20-year absence, the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service is bringing back its college internship program. One of the 11 students chosen to participate in the 2022 program is Rayvin Callaway, a...
by U of A System Division of Agriculture | Mar 9, 2022 | News
• Dustan Clark, extension veterinarian for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, said poultry producers at every level should review their biosecurity plans to reduce the spread of disease in their flocks. • Avian influenza presents no threat to...
by Seark Today | Mar 7, 2022 | Crime & Courts, News
A juvenile has been arrested in connection with the Sunday shooting death of a Lincoln County man. Timothy Foster, 50, of the Garrett Bridge community in Lincoln County was shot Sunday around 10 a.m. when Dylan Scott allegedly entered the home with a rifle and...
by U of A System Division of Agriculture | Mar 4, 2022 | News
As school seniors finalize plans for secondary education this spring, those interested in pursuing plant science degrees may benefit from a scholarship opportunity available through the Arkansas Master Gardener Program. The Janet B. Carson Master Gardener Scholarship...
by Asa Hutchinson | Mar 4, 2022 | News
In the week since Russia invaded Ukraine, Arkansas has joined most of the world in condemning the unprovoked assault. Today I’d like to share the story of a woman from Ukraine who is watching the war from Arkansas and praying for her relatives and friends who are...
by National Weather Service | Feb 28, 2022 | News, News Archive
In 2021 there were 35 tornadoes, almost two dozen instances of hurricane force winds produced by thunderstorms, and devastating flash flooding in southeast sections of the state in early June. With all of our attention focused on wintry precipitation recently...
