Booneville native named U.S. Trooper of the Year
Fort Smith Times Record
Arkansas State Trooper James Ray was patrolling Interstate 40 near Ozark in early December when he was called to assist a fellow officer who was with a person who had a suspended driver s license.
Shortly after Ray arrived, the person fled in the vehicle and reached speeds of up to 100 mph, passing other drivers on the shoulder of the road.
In pursuit, Ray bumped the back of the person s vehicle in a maneuver to cause the driver to spin across the road. Ray said he hoped to disable the vehicle with the maneuver, but the person regained control of and continued driving.
U.S. News & World Report ranks Arkansas high schools
Fort Smith Times Record
The U.S. News & World Report yearly ranks high schools throughout the nation. This year, the organization ranked Haas Hall Academy in Fayetteville as the best high school in the state out of 294 Arkansas high schools. The outlet published its results April 27. Here s a list compiling how well high schools in the area did.
Greenwood
Ranked #16
At Greenwood High School, 35% of the students took at least one AP exam, and 21% of those students passed at least one test. The graduation rate at the school is greater than 95%, and the U.S News & World Report found the school s reading proficiency to be 53% and its mathematics proficiency to be 52%.
Group educates Booneville students about trade careers
Fort Smith Times Record
She put the truck in drive and moved out onto the road, avoiding oncoming traffic and staying between the lines.
Booneville Sophomore Brooklyn Keeter was learning to drive a semi-truck, virtually that is.
Keeter sat in an actual semi-truck as she used the steering wheel to guide the video-game-like truck on the screen through the streets. She was learning in the Be Pro Be Proud s mobile workshop. Be Pro Be Proud is an organization dedicated to educating students about careers in trade.
The semi sat parked outside the Booneville High School as students filed into the truck and its trailers where they found virtual systems, like the one Keeter used, to try out jobs in the trade field.