Pocahontas Public School District Superintendent Lesa Grooms submitted her resignation to the members of the Pocahontas School Board during a special board meeting on November 14. Grooms’ resignation will be effective at the end of the 2022-2023 school year.
The Sloan-Hendrix Senior Boys traveled to Vilonia to take on the 5A Eagles in a Monday night game. The Greyhounds were down four points late in the fourth quarter, but Vilonia surged to win 56-44 giving the Greyhounds their first loss of season.
Pocahontas’ Connor Baker set the state career record for rushing touchdowns this past Friday night as the Redskins rolled Lincoln 56-14 in the first round of the state playoffs. Baker’s tally of 181 yards and three touchdowns on 22 carries brought his career total to 99 rushing touchdowns, eclipsing the mark of former Clarendon star Cedric Houston, who scored 97 rushing touchdowns from 1997-2000.
#4 The state record maker Redskin breaks state rushing touchdown record Friday, November 11, 2022, will forever be remembered as a night full of cheers, confetti, fireworks and history making moments, thanks to the Pocahontas Redskins Football team and their senior quarterback. Redskin quarterback Connor Baker, 17, broke the 20-yearold record for rushing touchdowns at the top of the second quarter with 99 TDs at Friday night’s football game on Schoonover Field against Lincoln, during the first round of the state playoffs.
As the dreary economic news continues, the needs in our communities become ever more obvious. Friends and neighbors struggle to make ends meet. Local businesses face tough financial decisions. Our charitable organizations scramble to serve more people on fewer dollars.
Everyone is a murder suspect in Agatha Christy’s “The Mousetrap,” a whodunit currently playing at the Downtown Playhouse in Pocahontas. As a snowstorm rages outside, five slightly mysterious and eccentric people arrive one by one at a guest house.
Election Day is over. While we still have a runoff race, most of the races have been decided. I send out heartfelt thanks to every citizen who voted. As always, there are results that surprise some and are expected by others. However, the people have spoken and time moves on. My hope is that we will all support candidates that follow the constitution and believe in it. The actions of those elected will tell the tale.
Earl Cephas Chester, with a middle name he didn’t like, was born April 29, 1914, to James Jefferson (JJ) or “Ted,” and Minerva Chester in Elm Store, Arkansas. The second of seven children, he had two sisters; Velma and Mary Nell and four brothers; Virgil, Oral (O.J.), Ray, and Kern.