Sheridan News

The Sheridan School Board authorized the construction of a new library addition at East End Elementary School and a new fine arts addition at Sheridan Middle School during its regular monthly session held last week at 6:30 p.m. on June 8 in the boardroom of the 1913 Administration Building.

First just a little about me. My name is Harold Voss. I am 43 years old. I was raised in Prague, Arkansas, which is eight miles east of Sheridan Arkansas.

The youth at Apostolic Faith United Pentecostal Church in Mountain Home are getting a taste of what it was like for Bible translators to hand-copy early versions of the Bible.

The past week's storms have created numerous flooding problems in Grant County with multiple roads damaged and some still impassable.

A 20-year-old Benton man convicted of capital murder was sentenced Wednesday to life plus 70 years in the Arkansas Department of Correction.

A special judge has been appointed by the Arkansas Supreme Court to replace 4th Judicial Circuit Judge William Storey.

The Grant County Quorum Court met last week to discuss the expected completion of the new Grant County Rescue building, renovations to restrooms at Cox Creek, CSEPP radios for school buses, and a decrease in sales tax collections as well as an increase in the unemployment rate for the county.

Approximately 20 acres burned last week in the Sheridan area before four fire agencies and two water bombers could extinguish the wildfire, and although Grant County has received rain in recent weeks forestry officials urge residents to still use caution when burning.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009 7:27 a.m. Special elections taking place across state today Restructuring school millages at Hermitage and Gravette, continuing a citywide sales tax in Sheridan and choosing a new mayor in West Fork are issues voters will face in special elections today.

Sheridan School District students are leading the way in the Aspirnaut Initiative.

Dave Wagonvoord's advertising and broadcasting operation expands from Tampa, where it owns a trio of stations, to Sheridan, Ark., with the $250,000 acquisition of KGHT-AM. A Metropolitan Radio Group is the seller of the 50,000-watt daytime operation.

Grant County Sheriff's deputies arrested a set of Jefferson County twins Sunday and seized approximately 11 pounds of suspected marijuana after a high-speed chase led into the city limits of Sheridan.

Sheridan residents are being asked to vote during a special election April 14 to re-establish the one cent sales tax that is due to expire on Aug.

Raeke received the award for his leadership in implementing an integrated manufacturing software system that helped his company simplify its IT environment and reduce technology costs.

The dedicated volunteer firefighters in Grant County respond day and night to calls for help in the community.

Local residents will have the opportunity to observe Arbor Day at the Grant County Museum on Wednesday, March 25.

The Sheridan School Board met last week on March 9 for a number of updates, including public education concerns in the Arkansas General Assembly, and voted to approve the 2009-2010 school calendar with ...

In the mid-1950s, the main employer and landlord in Sheridan, Ark., was a lumber mill.

From submitted reports The Mountain Home Education Foundation will induct two educators and two alumni into the foundation's 2009 Hall of Honor and bestow the Earnest Perry Award posthumously to Richard ...

A bill filed in the Legislature on Monday would increase the minimum wage in Arkansas to match the federal wage minimum.