Decatur News

The Decatur Parks and Recreation Committee met recently to consider possible dates for an ATV rodeo and farm-truck pull.

Daily Record photograph by Sarah Nader Chuck Hawthorne, left, of Rogers handed Nathan Hammond of Decatur a gift certificate to play 18 holes of golf after Hammond won it at a raffle during a lunch held Friday at the Crystal Bridges construction site.

"We continue to feed a lot of people around the world which is our goal," said Mark Simmons, chairman of Simmons Foods.

Arkansas Tech University has announced its dean's list for undergraduate students on the main campus in Russellville for the spring 2009 semester.

Siloam Springs School District pre-kindergarten students have been given yet another opportunity to get a jump on early education.

More than $1 million in grants from the Care Foundation that were announced Tuesday will help fund after-school, summer and pre-kindergarten programs across the region.

There will be a number of Memorial Day events across northwest Arkansas Monday, May 25.

Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 27th, 2009 My old hometown's name, Decatur, has a cryptozoological and Forteana mystic about it that creates all kinds of mojo.

Archival footage The classic photograph of the out-of-focus sasquatch. BENTON COUNTY- In October 2003, the small town of Decatur on the western side of Benton County found itself with a new resident.

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/MICHAEL WOODS UA reception Fred Vorsanger, facilities coordinator and director of Bud Walton Arena , greets former U.S. Sen.

An 8-year-old boy aided in his handcuffed grandmother's escape from the back of a Benton County Sheriff's Office patrol car.

Elizabeth Ann Jackson, 41, of Decatur was arrested last July after a disturbance in which she purportedly hit the boya TMs great-grandmother, Judith Jackson, 59.

A Decatur man pleaded not guilty Monday to raping a 7-year-old girl and holding several people at gunpoint.

A company specializing in manufacturing pressure washers bought the Black & Decker plant in Decatur on March 17 with plans to relocate a Siloam Springs manufacturing facility to Decatur.

The following is a list of farmer's markets across northwest Arkansas, the dates they open and their hours.

Arkansas Department of Emergency Management and Federal Emergency Management Agency officials met with Benton County Judge Dave Bisbee in an attempt to get all of the wrinkles ironed out of the process to get the county reimbursed for tree removal associated with January's ice storm.

The Siloam Springs Police Department and District Court, along with 14 other local agencies, are giving people a second chance this week.

In Monopoly, a player has to roll doubles to leave jail without paying. Police departments in northwest Arkansas are going to make it easier than that in real life.

Rogers Police will host an amnesty week starting on April 5. Following is a press release from the RPD: The Rogers Police Department is hosting an amnesty week on the week of April 5, 2009 through April 11, 2009.

Vernon and Stacey Garr of Decatur, Ark., and Mike and Janice Lyttle of Siloam Springs, Ark., announce the engagement and upcoming wedding of their daughter, Kristen Garr to Shane Boldra.