AKA offers scholarships
Kelli Dixon, president of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., Delta Omega Omega Chapter, along with Scholarship Tri-Chairs Latasha Carlock, Deborah Thomas and Chantal Jones, announced that applications are being accepted for the 2026 College Scholarship Program, sponsored by the Delta Omega Omega Chapter in partnership with First Sisters Outreach Inc.
The program will award a minimum of $1,000 scholarships to graduating high school women from Pine Bluff High School, Watson Chapel High School and White Hall High School who plan to attend the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. The Scholarship Tri-Chairs encourage students to apply early and submit all required materials by April 3.
“Strong educational partnerships are essential to student success, and UAPB has a proven history of preparing students to lead and serve,” said Thomas.
“We encourage young women planning to attend UAPB to apply and to believe in the value of the investment being made in their future.”
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Applicants must meet eligibility requirements outlined in the 2026 scholarship guidelines and complete the application online.
For more information, students and parents may contact the scholarship chairmen at akadooscholar@gmail.com or lcarlock77@gmail.com.
Meeting for caregivers set
Agency on Aging of Southeast Arkansas will hold its Caregivers Alzheimer’s Support Group Meeting virtually on Feb. 16 from 11 a.m to noon.
The presenters will be Tonya Boyce, a community and faith outreach representative for the Alzheimer’s Association Arkansas Chapter, according to a news release.
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State board visits WC, PB schools
The Arkansas State Board of Education will visit campuses in the Watson Chapel and Pine Bluff school districts Thursday morning and hold its monthly meeting that afternoon at the Arkansas River Education Service Cooperative in Pine Bluff.
The board did not state the reason for the upcoming visit.
The nine-person panel will visit Watson Chapel’s Coleman Elementary at 9 a.m. followed by Pine Bluff’s Forrest Park/Greenville Kinder Center at 10:30 a.m., according to a news release.
Historical conference set at Monticello
The Arkansas Historical Association will hold its 85th annual conference April 9-11 at the University of Arkansas at Monticello, the UAM Trotter House and the Monticello Country Club. A tour April 10 will take attendees to the Taylor House on the former Hollywood/Valley Plantation. Built in 1846, it is one of the state’s last remaining examples of pre-Civil War architecture, according to a news release.
Historians, researchers, and scholars from around the region will gather to explore the theme “Arkansas at Work: Histories of Labor, Land and Learning.”
This year’s program will highlight the people, places and transformations that have shaped Arkansas through the years, from the trade systems of Indigenous peoples to a diverse economy based on agriculture, mining, forestry, manufacturing and tourism.
The Arkansas Historical Association is a nonprofit organization committed to the preservation, publishing and teaching of Arkansas history.
Since 1942, it has published the Arkansas Historical Quarterly, the premier publication covering Arkansas and its history.
More information and conference registration are available on the association’s website at www.arkansashistoricalassociation.org. Annual membership to the Association, which includes four issues of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly during the year, is available for $25 and can also be found online.