Iva Lee Evans, 97, of Huntsville died Wednesday, June 12, 2024, at Washington Regional Medical Center, Fayetteville. 

Jerry Lee Grigg, 74, of Van Buren, AR, died Friday, June 7, 2024, at Mercy Hospital, Fort Smith. 

Under the watchful eye of head football coach Eric Henderson, the Huntsville Eagles varsity football team worked out in the weightroom of the Charles H. Berry Gymnasium Tuesday morning.

The Huntsville Planning Commission will host its annual citywide cleanup day on Saturday, Sept. 14, with planning director Jennifer Thomas indicating she wants to make the cleanup “a really big event.”

Senior citizens in Madison County have benefited from activities and services offered by the Area Agency on Aging for 45 years.

State Sen. Bryan King emphasized the importance of government transparency during a town hall meeting he held Tuesday, June 10, at the Jasper High School gym in Newton County.

The deadline to register to vote in the Nov. 5 general election falls on Monday, Oct. 7.

Owe future generations Dear Editor, I would like to weigh in on the controversy surrounding the Madison   County Transfer Station/ Recycling Center’s future.   I’ve …

Help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency is available to Madison County residents affected by the EF1 tornado that struck the county on Memorial Day weekend, County Judge Larry Garrett said.

Over the weekend at the Arkansas Bar Association’s annual meeting in Hot Springs, an attorney, who had given hours of work writing legislation that will potentially uphold, fortify and strengthen the state’s Freedom of Information Act, was handcuffed and escorted out of a seminar that she paid to attend after two people approached her asking to sign petitions she was carrying that would potentially put that legislation she crafted on our ballot in November, allowing the people to vote to maintain the need for transparency and an open government. 

The double-murder trial of a former Huntsville resident set for Monday, June 17, likely won’t take place, according to Prosecutor Matt Durrett.

Good to find out that FEMA assistance will be available to qualifying Madison County residents who were affected by the tornado of May 26.

The need for more apartments and lower-income housing as well as increased marketing of Huntsville and Madison County to outside investors were among the topics discussed at the meeting of the Infrastructure and Housing Strategic Planning subcommittees on June 12 at the Arvest Bank Annex Building.

The Madison County Quorum Court tabled discussion of a sales tax to fund the new county jail and sheriff’s office until the July meeting, by which time County Judge Larry Garrett, County Clerk Austin Boatright and Sheriff Ronnie Boyd should have an accurate sense of how much it will cost to operate the jail on a per-bed basis.

WASHINGTON — The Congressional Hunger Center honored U.S. Sen. John Boozman (R-AR) for leading passage of legislation to ensure kids have access to healthy, nutritious meals during the summer with the organization’s prestigious Bill Emerson and Mickey Leland Hunger Leadership Award.

Madison County Master Gardeners Rodney Boles, Jay and Donna Knauf, and Phil and Susan Watkins spent some time last week weeding the holly bushes in front of the Madison County Solid Waste and …

Derek Bodenhamer, the new head coach of the Huntsville Eagles soccer team, said he looks forward to implementing some changes to the program and winning more games next season.

The personnel subcommittee of the Madison County Quorum Court met on June 10 in the courthouse courtroom to discuss a new policy proposed by County Clerk Austin Boatright that would phase out employee use of paper time slips and transition instead to electronic timekeeping software implemented by the clerk’s office.

Where do we   go from there? Dear Editor,   It’s been a while since my last two opinion pieces, one on Sept. 16, 2010 where I gave my two-cents worth on being a …

Some interesting developments came out of the Huntsville City Council meeting Monday night, chief of which was the city’s decision to consider a resolution that would provide financial incentives to builders and contractors looking to create more housing here.