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Occasionally, one sports team is so dominant that there is little doubt they will march to a winning season and a championship.

Medicaid Action Day set

Reality didnt take long to settle in among Pine Bluff High Schools basketball players that they had won the 5A state championship.

The housing initiatives set forth by Pine Bluffs Urban Renewal Agency are progressing slowly, Executive Director Chandra Griffin said during a housing update to the agencys board members last week.

Of all the possible campus closures that could have taken place in the Pine Bluff School District, Jack Robey Junior High was the last one Mattie Collins expected.

Beginning this fall, the Pine Bluff School District will operate just one high school and one junior high school “in order to be good fiscal agents,” Superintendent Jennifer Barbaree announced in a video released Wednesday, a little less than two years after Dollarway schools officially became part of the district.

Beginning next school year, the Pine Bluff School District will operate just one high school and one junior high school "in order to be good fiscal agents," Superintendent Jennifer Barbaree announced in a video released Wednesday.

The Pine Bluff School District will need to campaign for an increase in one or both of its millage rates to generate enough funds toward a high school construction project that could lose state funding if not finalized by next January.

The Ivy Center for Education presented its annual Girl/Guy Talk workshops with community youth through a partnership with the women of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.s Alpha Rho Undergraduate Chapter at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and the men of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc.s Delta Sigma Lambda Graduate Chapter.

Seven community leaders were honored and 14 high school students were awarded scholarships Feb. 10 during a Valentines Scholarship Fundraiser.