The Mena School Board met for the August meeting on Monday, August 15, 2022 at the district administration building. The meeting was moved from its regular date due to a conflict with a school fu...

SHERIFF’S LOG   The following information was received from Polk County Sheriff Scott Sawyer for the week of August 8, 2022 – August 14, 2022. The charges against those arrested...

Mena Police Department reports for the week of August 7th through August 13th, 2022   All subjects should be considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.   August 7...

Governor Hutchinson's Weekly Radio Address:  Special Session Successes   To listen to Governor Hutchinson's weekly radio address, click anywhere on this line, th...

After passing legislation to accelerate tax cuts and provide funding for school safety, the 93rd General Assembly adjourned from a special session on Thursday.   In December of 2021, t...

Arkansas Youth Serving The Natural State   As teachers dust off desks, parents buy new school supplies and students prepare to head back to the classroom, the signs that a new school year i...

Higher Taxes and Spending Will Not Lower Inflation   This week, Congressional Democrats used a special procedural tool called “reconciliation” to pass a $745 billion bill throug...

State Capitol Week in Review From Senator Larry Teague   August 12, 2022   LITTLE ROCK – The legislature concluded a quick, three-day special session after approving income...

Several municipal elected positions in Polk County will be contested in the November General Election this year. Stephanie Murr and Kacie Rose have both filed for the Mena Clerk/Treasurer position. In...

On Monday, August 8, 2022, an inmate in the Polk County Detention Center led the Polk County Sheriff's Office to skeletal remains in a shallow grave west of Hatfield, Arkansas. The remains were fo...

Mr. Robert Calvin Willis, age 83, passed away Sunday, August 14, 2022, in Mena, Arkansas. He was born April 24, 1939, to the late Syberian and Naomi Harroff Willis. Mr. Willis was an outdoorsman ...

Gloria Vonnabeth Glover, age 87, of Mena, Arkansas, passed away Monday, August 15, 2022, at her home. She was born September 11, 1934, in Houston, Texas to Scott and Verrena (Pittman) Kinnerson. ...

Leatha Carrell Smith Rigby, age 47, passed away August 10th, 2022, after a hard battle with Cancer in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Lea was born in 1974 in Vicksburg, Mississippi to the late Linda Lee Price ...

Karla Ann Bruce, age 68 of Plunketville, Oklahoma passed away Wednesday, August 10, 2022 in Idabel , Oklahoma. She was born March 1, 1954 to the late Carl Grogan and Carolyn Horstman Grogan in Berryvi...

Linda Louise Milne, age 80 of Mena, Arkansas, passed away Wednesday, August 10, 2022, in Hot Springs. She was born October 30, 1941, in Mena, Arkansas to the late A.J. Burris and the late Sarah...