Applications are now available for $500 scholarships to be awarded by the Cleburne County Extension Homemakers Council.

Districts look at options to make up days.

The ice and snow have caused some closing for Monday.

U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) is accepting applications for her summer internship program, which provides students the opportunity to learn about the federal government and our nation’s legislative process.

When our teachers returned from Christmas break, they entered a slightly different world in their classrooms. Books, pencils, paper were still part of the setting, but there were two new very significant teaching tools available.

Saturday morning cartoons will have to take a backseat to textbooks and chalkboards in the immediate future.

ASU-Heber Springs has come out with its Spring 2010 Schedule of Continuing Education courses.

The completed application should be mailed or turned in to the Cooperative Extension Service office by March 15.

The Cleburne County 4-H youth program received a $2,500 donation from Southwestern Energy recently to help fund the community-focused organization’s educational programs.

If the highways within the Heber Springs School District are safe for travel after inclement weather, buses will run snow routes. Students were notified Wednesday and letters were sent home to parents.

Snowflakes sparkle on the light poles on Main Street in Heber Springs; the Courthouse bells ring out the familiar Christmas carols; Christmas trees decorated in silver, gold, and red fill windows of businesses and homes.

All public schools in Cleburne County are closed.

More construciton money is needed, however.

By the time you read this article, the Christmas festivities will almost be ending at the elementary school. The final Christmas hurrah will be the class parties on Thursday, December 17.

Dozens of letters to Santa are in the December 16 print edition of the Sun-Times.