Kiwanis Club changes meeting place this weekFor this week only, members of El Dorado’s Kiwanis Club will meet at noon on Wednesday at Simmon’s First Bank Community Room instead of First Presbyterian Church.SouthArk board to discuss finances The South Arkansas Community College board of t...

Liberty Ministry Center will give out food from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. today at 901 S. Washington Ave.• Union County Quilt Guild meets at 9:30 a.m. the second Tuesday of each month at Hillsboro Church of Christ Fellowship Hall, 1322 W. Hillsboro. The contact person is Ruth Matocha, 862-8088.•...

City Arrests:• Leeodies Newton, 22, of 319 W. Grove, was arrested Sunday on a warrant for a parole violation and on the charge of possession of marijuana, according to an El Dorado Police Department report. The report said Newton was the passenger in a vehicle police stopped at the intersection...

The time of the Business After Hours was incorrect in Monday’s News-Times. The event will be held from 5 until 6:30 p.m. today at the El Dorado Golf and Country Club, 101 Shadyside. The event is being sponsored by the club and admittance is $5 at the door. A grand prize drawing for summer memb...

FELSENTHAL — Joe Harris Jr., public works superintendent, tendered his resignation effective May 15, when the Felsenthal Town Council met recently, according to minutes of the meeting.Also during the meeting, Mayor Linda Newbury presented data about past due accounts. Council members told the...

Missing Arkansas teen found deadWALNUT RIDGE (AP) — A 14-year-old northeast Arkansas girl who has been missing for more than two months has been found dead in a river, authorities said Monday.The body found Saturday in the Black River was identified as that of Sidney Nicole Randall, of Walnut...

 Arky the Clown was at Courtyard Health and Rehabilitation last week during a party to celebrate National Nursing Home Week. The clown made balloon animals and the residents enjoyed snow cones.

 Workers with Burton’s H & H Maintenance use a power washer and broom to clean the deep end of the El Dorado Golf and Country Club’s pool late last week. The crew, along with other contractors, were busy making repairs to the pool and its surrounding area to have the pool ready...

 Katie Sandifer, employee and community relations director for Murphy Oil Corp., second from left, accepts the Union County Tourism Award from the Arkansas’ South Tourism Association during its annual meeting. Murphy Oil was honored for its many years of supporting Arkansas’ South a...

Sixty-four seniors from the El Dorado High School Class of 2013 were recognized as Arkansas Scholars at an awards ceremony at the South Arkansas Arts Center on Monday. A reception immediately following the ceremony was sponsored by the Union County Community Foundation, the El Dorado Education Found...