Pictures for varsity and JV football players have been set for this week, with volleyball teams and cheerleaders scheduled the day before on Thursday, Aug. 8.

Meet the Teacher will be held at Nancy Smith Elementary on Tuesday, Aug. 13, with students and parents learning teacher classroom assignments for the first time.

Meet the Band night Summer band camp completes a second week of rehearsals for the Ragin’ Red Band today, with another full week of nightly practices next week. Brass and woodwind players joined the drum line and pit this week, giving new head director Jessica Watkins her first look at the entire group although they met in sections throughout the day.

TheAlbanycommunity is invited to take part in the second annual prayer walk Monday, Aug. 5 in advance of the first day of the upcoming school year.

Community Vacation Bible School ended its three night run Wednesday with family night, including a program at First Baptist Church, followed by a fajita dinner and swimming at Webb Park. “We averaged over 200 participants this year, including kids and leaders,” organizer Ginger Bumguardner said.

TheotherdayIchecked something online I hadn’t checked in a while—at least I hadn’t done it since I moved to Gillett,Arkansas. I Google-Earthed myself. As soon as I saw my location via the GPS dot, I began zooming in. I went down far enough to see that the church garden behind my fence held a crop of winter greens. After looking around my backyard and a few of the neighbors’, I began zooming back out. I’ve lived here for one year now, so I wanted to see where I was with respect to the rest of the city of Gillett . . . then Arkansas County . . . then Pendleton (my mom and dad’s home about ten miles away) then Dumas and Desha County(hometown).Then I decided to zoom back out and trace the steps of my journey over the past thirty 30 years in a kind of “There and Back Again” path. That meant going to Kentucky and then to Texas and back to Kentucky and then to Tennessee and then Texas again and back to Arkansas. (With Google Earth, you can take a trip and never leave the farm!)

Moran Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs fall sports teams begin their preseason practices Monday, Aug. 5, the first class day for the district.

Moran ISD faculty and staff underwent in-service trainingthisweekinpreparation for the start of the 2024-25 school year. The first day of school is Monday, Aug.

Over the past few months, there have been several additions to the Old Jail Art Center’s Education and Interpretation Department, according to Education Director Erin Whitmore. “As the museum has continued to grow in its reach and programming over the past five years, so too has the need for staff to facilitate those initiatives,” Whitmore stated.