The Mountain Home High School girls’ basketball team will be returning to the home floor on Tuesday, when they host Jonesboro, and tickets must be prepurchased online, and the link to the purchase site can be found here. A boys’ game was scheduled to follow, but it has been canceled.
Everyone attending must have an online ticket, with the exception of those carrying an Arkansas Activities Association (AAA) pass. AAA passes will allow the holder and a guest to enter.
Mountain Home School District instructors must have an online ticket and a teacher ID at the gate. Senior citizen passes, family passes and lifetime passes will also need to be shown at the gate with the tickets.
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Sixteen players from Faulkner County teams, the most in recent history, have earned all-state recognition in football by the Arkansas Activities Association. The honors were voted upon by the coaches in each conference. Conway High had five players named all-state, while Greenbrier had four, Vilonia had three, and Mayflower and Conway Christian had two each.
Almost 750 children will have a better Christmas because of the efforts of the Conway Optimist Clubâs Angel Tree project. Bicycles, skateboards and clothing were among the items given to the families of âangelsâ during a distribution at Hendrix College. The Optimists have been sponsoring the Angel Tree effort for 25 years, making sure that every child on the list provided by the Community Action Program for Central Arkansas (CAPCA) will get a present. Giving exceeded last yearâs effort by 100 more families and 150 more children.
With almost a semester of learning under their belts, students and teachers are bracing for a trend upward in COVID-19 cases.
Following the Thanksgiving holiday, several schools saw an uptick in positive cases, which is likely to continue into January following Christmas.
“What I m seeing is there are a few more cases,” said superintendent of Catholic Schools Theresa Hall. “Not that they’re starting at our schools, but families are doing more activities in groups, which I feel is a cause for some of this growth.”
However, there have not been any schoolwide outbreaks and in-school transmissions are low, thanks to diligent efforts in mask-wearing, social distance, hand-washing and keeping groups isolated by classes or grades, Hall said. For the week of Nov. 30-Dec. 4, all Catholic schools in Arkansas reported the following to the Catholic Schools Office: