Greenland News

The one-week time frame for school board candidates to start filing in order to run for election begins in one week.

The Greenland Post Office will close its retail operation at noon Friday in anticipation of the Fourth of July holiday.

ANDY SHUPE Northwest Arkansas Times Craig Huddleston, 15, of Springdale rides up into a the branches of a post oak tree Saturday while taking part in a rappelling demonstration put on by the Fayetteville Fire Department during Camp Rescue at the Washington County operations center.

Last year, the Fayetteville Board of Education adopted a restrictive approach to transfers, rejecting most requests from students to attend schools in other districts.

Police are looking for a seventy one year old woman believed to be missing in Greenland.

The state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board on Wednesday approved a beer permit for a Fayetteville convenience store but denied a permit to another store that Fayetteville police called the worst convenience store in the city.

The school district is working with a group of Winslow residents in an effort to reopen the cafeteria/gymnasium building on the former Winslow Elementary School campus, Superintendent Roland Smith said Tuesday.

ANTHONY REYES Northwest Arkansas Times Greenland High School's graduating seniors toss their caps into the air after the commencement ceremony Thursday at Barnhill Arena in Fayetteville.

An ailing school district once in the red will now be able to end its fiscal year in the black.

New technology, more professional development and maybe even a school bus ... Those are some of the expenditures area school districts could soon be making with federal stimulus funds.

Two Northwest Arkansas school districts forced to make drastic budget cuts over the past year now must determine how to spend federal money in an equally quick manner.

Elkins Public Schools has received preliminary approval for $656,190 in federal stimulus money over the next two years, Superintendent Mike Harris told the Board of Education Tuesday.

The 2009 Arkansas General Assembly ended without any school choice reform, although there was some talk prior to the session that the issue would be addressed.

Fayetteville School District administrators are exploring the possibility of contracting out janitorial positions at district facilities.

BROOKE McNEELY Northwest Arkansas Times Meals on Wheels driver Sherry Powell tells program recipient Richard Bean goodbye with a kiss on the forehead Tuesday at his Fayetteville apartment.

My son Zach and I are fishing with our friend Brad Wiegmann, a fishing guide on Beaver Lake near Springdale.

A Greenland man filed an administrative appeal Monday in Washington County Circuit Court to challenge the Greenland City Council's decision to condemn three of his properties.

Police made fast work of a case involving two suspects who they believe were trying to cash in -- using some phony cash.

When parents of public school students start receiving in the mail the annual Arkansas Report Card assessing their children's schools, they might notice a new evaluation rating.

The small home in Greenland where Betty Paschal and her husband raised a son and made a home for 48 years may soon be too close to U.S. 71B for comfort.