Festivities for the annual Yerger High School Reunion got underway here Thursday with a colorful parade from the campus of the current Yerger Middle School.

A fiery crash sent emergency workers scrambling yesterday afternoon at approximately 3:55 p.m. near the intersection of Hwy. 73, W. and County Road 15, and resulted in two deaths of area residents.

It is a good year for fireworks sales again in the area as local fireworks business owner Billy Rook said they are already as high as last year’s sales. 

Traffic on North Hervey Street will soon move to the west side of the road as the street expansion construction moves along, according to Arkansas Department of Highways and Transportation Resident Engineer Rochele Blue.

In a special noon session Wednesday, the Hope City Board of Directors took the next step in getting a planned new facility for the Southwest Arkansas Educational Cooperative off the drawing board.

As part of the 21st Century Learning Center grant that Southwest Arkansas Arts Council received recently, an artist and teacher from Boise, Idaho, came to Hope to teach students and teachers how to put together robots.