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🌱 How a Searcy High grad landed a $7,500 trucking scholarship.

Searcy, Arkansas Patch AM: a 4 min read

Hi Searcy! We have the latest buzz right here. Let's keep you in the loop and get this morning started right! ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • How a Searcy High grad landed a $7,500 trucking scholarship.
  • See which award-winning stories put Searcy in the statewide spotlight.
  • What Tim Griffin’s new senior team could mean for Arkansas justice.

Today's riddle: What do French fries do when they haven’t seen each other in a while? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Sunday: Mostly sunny and humid, with a high of 94 and low of 74 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
  • Monday: Mostly sunny and humid, temps: high: 95, low: 75.
  • Tuesday: Hazy sun and humid, with a high of 96 and low of 73 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Arkansas Trucking Association awards scholarship to Monticello student (advancemonticellonian.com) — A Searcy High School graduate, Conley Reeves of Judsonia, has earned a $7,500 Arkansas Trucking Association scholarship and will study medium/heavy duty truck technology at ASU-Beebe’s Searcy campus. His award, alongside another Arkansas student’s, highlights growing local opportunities in skilled diesel and trucking careers that keep freight moving statewide.
   

• White County Citizen wins 27 awards in Arkansas Press Association contest, including 12 for first (whitecountycitizen.com) — Searcy readers can celebrate as the White County Citizen brought home 27 Arkansas Press Association awards, including top honors for coverage and columns that spotlight local issues. The paper’s staff, including editor Steve Watts and sports editor Jason King, earned multiple first-place awards, with one winning headline about Searcy’s AT&T frustrations and another sports story on Searcy beating Harding Academy.
   

• Attorney General Tim Griffin Announces Senior Staff Changes, Ben Gilmore Named Senior Advisor (arkansasradio.com) — Leadership changes at the Arkansas Attorney General’s Office could indirectly affect Searcy as State Senator Ben Gilmore leaves the legislature to become Senior Advisor to Attorney General Tim Griffin. Several longtime senior staff, including division heads over criminal and Medicaid fraud work, are retiring or shifting roles, with new appointees stepping into those statewide responsibilities.
   

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🗞 Nearby News

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  • The Artisans Market Returns To Heber Springs Arkansas July 11 (arkansasradio.com)
  • We learn about the beauty and fun happening in Heber Springs (katv.com)
  • AGFC: Register to Participate in an Urban Archery Deer Hunt this Fall (jonesbororightnow.com)

Ok Searcy! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: “ketchup!” (Thank you Fauna T. for sending it in!)
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