BEEBE — The Arkansas State University–Beebe Art Department is proud to present the featured exhibit Couples that Create: Carly Dahl & Dustyn Bork. The exhibit will run through the month of September. Carly Dahl is an artist living in Batesville. She was born in Monroe, Mich. and moved to Arkansas in 2010. She earned her …
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal provided funding to build small farming communities throughout the United States, including a dozen or so here in Arkansas. The communities provided their residents with land, homes, farms, jobs and education. They were designed to provide economic recovery to families and communities struggling due to the Great Depression. The success …
Melissa Taverner, president of Lyon College (Lyon) Lyon College in Batesville is looking to save $2.5 million in utility costs over the next 25 years through a pair of efficiency and solar power contracts with Entegrity of Little Rock. Lyon will buy solar power from Entegrity, an energy services, sustainability and solar development company, at …
LAWRENCE COUNTY, Ark. (KAIT) – An arrest was made after a person led deputies on a chase through Lawrence County. Sheriff Jeff Yates told Region 8 News they were chasing a person in Black Rock because they were driving over 100 mph. He explained deputies lost the person in either Walnut Ridge or Hoxie, and …
The St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SLIAC) officially announced today that Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas, will become the tenth member of the conference beginning in Fall, 2023. The conference’s governing bodies unanimously approved Lyon College’s membership application and the Scots will begin regular season competition in 15 of the men’s and women’s sponsored sports …
BATESVILLE, Ark. (KAIT) -One person is dead, and one is injured after a Thursday night crash. According to a preliminary crash report from Arkansas State Police, 41-year-old Matthew Giles Jansen from Pocahontas died when his motorcycle was hit at a stoplight. On Aug 18 Jansen was stopped at a red light for the intersection of …
LYNN, Ark. (KAIT) – A family is calling the search for their missing 21-year-old son “a blessing out of a tragedy”. Crews continue their search for a missing man at Rainey Brake Wildlife Management Area in Lawrence County after he fell off a boat into the Black River and never resurfaced. Since the first call …
The U.S. Geological Survey recorded a small earthquake early Friday morning just south of the Arkansas-Missouri border. Published: Aug. 19, 2022 at 8:49 AM CDT JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) – The U.S. Geological Survey recorded a small earthquake early Friday morning just south of the Arkansas-Missouri border. The magnitude 2.1 quake struck at 4:26 a.m. Friday, …
NEWPORT, Ark. (KAIT) – Multiple companies are bringing jobs to Jackson County. A media release from the Newport Economic Development Commission announced the cryptocurrency companies GMI Computing, United BitEngine plans, and Juice Tech will be located in Newport. The three companies will engage in what is commonly known as “bitcoin mining” but will be working …
NEWPORT, Ark. (KAIT) – Teachers in the Jackson County School District were given a surprise from a foundation honoring the life of a woman killed nearly two years ago. Sydney Sutherland graduated from the Jackson County School District back in 2014. Her body was found along County Road 141 on Aug. 20, 2020, after deputies …
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