The Forrest City Advertising and Promotion Commission recently held a phone poll where they unanimously approved funding for a new fall event. The Forrest City Homecoming Committee submitted a $23,050 ...

The Forrest City City Council is planning to meet in special session this month to discuss the city’s nuisance abatement ordinance and imposing fines on those who violate it. At last week’s meeting, ...

Lowry Astin today announces his candidacy for mayor of Forrest City in the November General Election. “Forrest City is my home. I was reared here, graduated from Forrest City High School, built my ...

The St. Francis County Sheriff’s Department is hoping to make more arrests in a copper theft ring in the county. Sheriff Bobby May said farmers in the area are largely targeted due to equipment, such ...

The Forrest City Downtown Revitalization Project will host an Arts and Music Festival on Saturday, May 16, bringing an afternoon of live entertainment, local vendors and family friendly activities to ...

A pair of local law enforcement officers were recognized last week at Forrest City Medical Center for their life-saving actions following a shooting in April. The officers received Emergency Medical ...

Local residents celebrated National Day of Prayer together at noon Friday at the Forrest City Public Library’s new amphitheater park. Alan Calvert, Pastor of ConnectPoint Church in Forrest City, of ...

Palestine-Wheatley High School has named its valedictorian and salutatorian for the Class of 2026. Taylor Douglas is this year’s valedictorian, and McKinley Cleaves is salutatorian. Douglas is the ...

The Forrest City Advertising and Promotion Commission recently voted to fund four events– three returning and one new – in Forrest City this year. The requests for support included the annual Run for ...

The Courier-Index, owned by Johnson Media Group, has been sold to Helena World Chronicle, LLC, Publisher Tamara Johnson announced today. Johnson Media Group also publishes the Times-Herald in Forrest ...

Sutton and his wife, Beth Bratcher Sutton, have two children, a son who is in college and a daughter who is a junior in high school. At the recent shareholders meeting of the First National Bank of ...