Tuesday, April 4, was Election Day in Union County. Voters elected candidates who were running for municipal posts, positions on local school district boards of education, seats on two library districts and the Shawnee Community College district board.
Unofficial results recorded at the Union...
Tuesday, April 4, is Election Day in Union County.
Voters in Union County will elect candidates who are running for municipal posts, positions on local school district boards of education and seats on two library districts.
Here’s a look at the candidates who are on the ballot in next Tuesday’s...
School board elections are slated in April 2017 in Union County.
The filing period for school board elections began Dec. 12 and continues through Dec. 19. Nominating petitions are filed at the Union County clerk’s office in Jonesboro.
Elections are scheduled in each of the county’s seven school...
‘Tis the season...for Christmas holiday season programs at Union County public schools. The schedule of upcoming programs includes:
Lick Creek School, Dec. 16, 7 p.m.
Cobden Elementary School, Dec. 21, 12:30 p.m.
Cobden Junior-Senior High School, Dec. 18, 2 p.m.
Davie School, Anna, Dec. 13, 7 p.m....
Students portraying the nation’s two major political parties’ presidential candidates faced off during a mock presidential debate which was held last Friday afternoon at Shawnee Junior-Senior High School in Wolf Lake.
The event involved 27 high school government students taught by Jamie Nash-...
Special events are planned in the area in observance of the Veterans Day holiday. Veterans Day is Friday, Nov. 11.
Lincoln School, Anna
Lincoln Elementary School in Anna is planning to have an assembly to honor local veterans.
The assembly is set for 1:30 p.m. Thursday, today, at the school....
Shawnee Elementary students received a visit from some area fire department personnel and their equipment on Tuesday morning, Oct. 11, as part of Fire Prevention Week.
Firefighters Riley Webb, of the McClure-East Cape Fire District, and TC Schaefer and chief Dennis Wright, both of the Tower Rock...
Shawnee School District 84 teacher Kiri Lomax’s 1st grade class wrote a thank you letter to the Union County Sheriff’s Office for keeping them and the school safe during last week’s manhunt.
The students were going to send the letter to Sheriff Scott Harvel, but he surprised the students on Monday...
Shawnee high school baseball and junior high school softball teams were in action last week.
Baseball
The Shawnee Redskins scored a 7-6 victory over Century in high school baseball action on Tuesday, Aug. 30.
Dawson Johnson pitched six innings. Casey Baltzell pitched one inning and got the win....
A suspect in an alleged Union County burglary was taken into custody without resistance at approximately 10 a.m. Tuesday.
Union County Sheriff Scott Harvel reported in a news release that a plainclothes detective from the sheriff’s office spotted the suspect, identified as Dejun D. Booker, 26, near...