Mena News

News Feb 5th, 2010 - 16:38:01 Members of the community and local officials gathered at the Polk County Courthouse Saturday afternoon to dedicate the new Remembrance Monument that pays tribute to the losses and damages that were experienced from the April 9, 2009 tornado.

News Jan 15th, 2010 - 18:32:18 Mena Water Utilities employees work to repair a busted water main under the intersection of De Queen and Maple Street Friday night.

The Arkansas Department of Education today released to members of the Arkansas General Assembly a report on grade inflation, which identified 58 high schools in the state as inflating 20-percent or more of its grades.

Monday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency presented Mena High School students with plans to build a mitigation home.

News Jan 7th, 2010 - 16:35:05 Forest trail restrictions impact Wolf Pen Gap Mena/Oden District Ranger Jim Zornes explains the Travel Management map and its restrictions on Wolf Pen Gap Tuesday afternoon after the Forest Service announced their long-awaited decision Monday.

First there was the ice that blanketed the northern third of Arkansas. Then the tornado that ripped through Mena.

News Dec 31st, 2009 - 08:49:46 Experiencing more rain in Mena and Polk County than any other year, 2009 will be remembered for being the wettest year on record, and residents seeing well over 100 rainy days.

JONESBORO, AR The National Weather Service in Little Rock has released some statistics regarding severe weather in 2009 for Arkansas.

News Last Updated: Dec 17th, 2009 - 16:13:06 Through efforts of U.S. Representative Mike Ross, Senator Blanche Lincoln, and Senator Mark Pryor, Mena Regional Health System has secured $600,000 in the Fiscal Year 2010 House Consolidated Appropriations Bill that will be used toward the enhancement of hospital equipment.

News Last Updated: Dec 17th, 2009 - 16:14:45 Bernie Soliz and Todd Aynes unstack boxes of food from a pallet at Dallas Avenue Baptist Church on Tuesday afternoon to prepare for the Feed Mena event next week.

News Dec 17th, 2009 - 16:18:35 In a public meeting held by Mena Schools Tuesday night, the potential of building a new 'Louise Durham' K-2 elementary school was discussed before the public, as well as the future of the current Mena Middle School building.

Mena school officials say things are "semi-normal" after a deadly tornado destroyed a middle school and extensively damaged a community college.

Seven months after a tornado ripped through Mena, the city is getting some of its green back.

Melissa Dunbar-Gates talks with Kirby Williams of Diamond Bank about the efforts to "re-green" Mena from the devastating tornado earlier this year.

There's good reason that the Ouachita River has lured settlers along its banks at least as far back as the ancient, mound-building cultures.

I have been defamed by Taylor Branch, and he will not reply to my repeated calls for clarification.

The River City Mena s Chorus took on the many faces and meanings of courage with some fine singing and a heartstrings-tugging multimedia presentation in a program called a oeHeroesa Sunday afternoon at Little Rocka s Trinity United Methodist Church.

If you want to hear the story about how I met Ms. Marie and exactly what kind of relationship we had, I could just go right on ahead and get into all that without any problem.

It's just about back to school time for the children of tornado ravaged Mena. No business or organization was as hard hit as Mena Public Schools, according to superintendent Dr.

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