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Senior Olivia Cook was elected the 2024 Warren High School Homecoming Queen by her student body, grades 10 through 12. Queen Olivia is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Torry and Torrie Lynn Cook. She will be crowned during the Homecoming Coronation on Friday, Oct. 11, at 12 p.m. at the Lumberjack Arena, where admission is open to the public.

RISON - This Saturday, large crowds can be expected to fill the streets of Downtown Rison as the city prepares for the Rison In The Fall Festival, which opens to the public at 12 noon Saturday, Oct. 12. “In the past few years since rebranding the festival into a musical...

For the second consecutive year, the Monticello Billies would have to travel to Warren for the Union Bank Saline River Shootout. Both Warren and Monticello would enter the contest with a 1-0 8-4A Conference record. The Lumberjacks would win the coin toss to begin the game and elected to receive...

RISON - Even after losing their starting quarterback to injury on just the tenth play of the game, underdog Dumas made things interesting for the first quarter of last Friday night’s 8-3A Conference battle at George Walker Field of Champions. Then Rison tuned up its offense and leaned on another fine defensive effort, as the Wildcats pulled away from a 6-6 deadlock to wear down the determined Bobcats, 38-6, and keep their record unblemished at the halfway mark of the regular season.The win, just ahead of their coming showdown Friday at McGehee, improved the Wildcats to 5-0 on the season and 2-0 in the conference, while Dumas fell to 1-4 and 1-1. However, the Bobcats made Rison work hard for their victory. And it wasn't until a 14-play, 81-yard scoring drive by Rison to start the second half that enabled the Wildcats to establish a three-touchdown cushion and breathing room, the TD making it a 26-6 game with 4:19 to go in the third period.After their starting quarterback, senior Darnail Walker, went down with an injury early in the contest, the Bobcats still went on to amass 119 yards before the conclusion of the opening period, using a 51-yard touchdown bomb from backup Marcus Kilgore to the athletic Raylen Spratt to knot the score, 6-6, on the last offensive snap of quarter one.However, over the last three quarters of the game, the Wildcat defense limited Dumas to a net 80 yards on 34 plays and just 4 first downs. In the meantime, the Rison offense warmed up to build a big advantage, with the defense chipping in a fourth quarter touchdown to add icing to the cake.  Commenting about the victory over the Bobcats, Rison head coach Chris Vereen said, “No doubt, it hurt them losing their quarterback. And when they moved Kilgore to quarterback, they lost their second best receiver. But he did a good job. We had one busted coverage when we gave up the touchdown, just a straight go route. They ran more hitches than anyone we'll probably see, and we did a pretty good…

RISON - The origins of this week’s Rison in the Fall festival can be traced back to an idea by the late Bill Ripling, the former mayor of Rison. Roy Phillips, who served as the lead promoter of the Rison in the Fall Festival for about 30 years, said Ripling wanted to do something special to celebrate the City of Rison’s 100th birthday after it was formally incorporated in August 1890. He appointed a committee to create an event and a two-day celebration was held that year.

The University of Arkansas at MOnticello travelled to Ada, Oklahoma on Saturday to face the East Central Tigers for their fifth Great American Conference contest of the season. The Weevils entered the contest having dropped their last two contests. both losses to nationally ranked teams in Harding and Ouachita Baptist.

MONTICELLO, Ark. - Arkansas-Monticello Volleyball (4-11, 0-5 GAC) will hit the road for end-of-week conference action against Northwestern Oklahoma State University on Thursday at 6 p.m., followed by a Friday afternoon game at Southwestern Oklahoma State University at 4 p.m. "I'm really excited. We had a long week last week....

The UAM Blossom Volleyball team dropped their fifth Great American Conference contests on Saturday with a 3-1 loss to Harding University. Harding would take the opening set 25-16 and would go to take the second set by a 25-11 margin. UAM would have their best set of the match during...