At its May 11 meeting, Warren City Council adopted Resolution A-713 to apply for a 50/50 outdoor-recreation grant for pool improvements and approved selling dumpsters and a Mack truck to help settle a Bradley County landfill dirt invoice.
Friends of the Library presented $1,000 Gingy Cuthbertson Scholarships to Ember Day Johnson and McKinleigh Meeks on May 17 at Warren’s First Methodist Church.
ADE’s Nita M. Lowey 21st CCLC awards list $200,000 new centers for Hermitage Elementary, Monticello Intermediate, Boys & Girls Club of McGehee, and Boys & Girls Club of Jefferson County sites in Pine Bluff, with programming required by Oct. 1, 2026.
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the Arkansas Department of Agriculture awarded Ashley County Fair Association $12,564.48 through the Fair Funding Program as part of more than $1.4 million statewide.
Bradley County Chamber of Commerce discussed using a $7,500 Main Street Arkansas Downtown Revitalization grant for banners and exploring a $50,000 T-Mobile grant for the vacant Bryant’s lot on Main Street in Warren.
Monticello City Council accepted a $300,000 Arkansas Division of Aeronautics grant for a 12,000-gallon AVGAS tank at the municipal airport and authorized a nearly $1 million DRA water-pump application.
Monticello accepted WJ Excavating’s bid for Sports Complex sidewalks funded by a $324,000 grant, adding a walking track that will connect the east and west sides and replace a muddy dirt connector.
