Mena Jr. High Track competed at the DeQueen Cub Relays on Tuesday. The Jr. Ladycats finished 2nd as a team and the Jr. Bearcats finished in 5th place.
Brynlee Bahr won the Pole Vault, Blayden West won the 200 Meter Dash & Bentley Brewer won the 300 Meter Hurdles. You can view complete results at the link below.
https://ar.milesplit.com/meets/651615-de-queen-cub-relays-meet-is-full-2025/results
Theatre Arts II students performed "10 Reasons You Should Have Stayed Home Sick" for 6th grade English classes on Tuesday.
Key roles in the production were played by:
Nevaeh Baldwin
Megan Lee
Finleigh Robertson
Carolina Romine
Payton Rose
Kenny Thomlison
Olivia Vanarsdale
A Big Congratulations to our First Grade Battle of the Books teams who competed at the Dequeen Mena Co-op and came home with a 2nd Place Win! 🎉🏆📚
We are so very proud of each of you!!
These girls read lots of books, learned to look for key details in stories to better understand what they were reading, saw the importance of team work and had fun all along the way!!
Good job First Grade! You represented Mena Public Schools so well!!
The 2024-2025 wrestling season came to an end at the State Tournament on Saturday.
The Ladycats had four All Region Wrestlers
Lanie Taylor
Paisley Burger
Sydney Jones
Evergrace Anderson
The Bearcats had 11 All Region Wrestlers & 2 All State Wrestlers.
Wyatt Head
Cody Short
Andrew Threlkeld
Auden Woods
Tripp Hensley (all state)
Chance Hughes
Beck Vacca
Jace Hankammer
Brody Peters
Guice Anderson (all state)
Carter Cossey
The Bearcats finished as Back to Back Regional Champs! & 6th at the State Tournament!
A special thanks to our volunteer coaches Sheriff Scott Sawyer & Cody Woods for spending so much time and energy into our kids.
Congratulations to Mena High School Junior Tripp Hensley on his 3rd Place finish in the 144 pound weight class and Guice Anderson on his 4th Place finish in the 190 pound weight class on Saturday at the 4A State Wrestling Tournament in Little Rock.
“Alone We Can Do So Little, Together We Can Do So Much!”❤️📚
Thank you Sheila L Graves for working with our Battle of the Books students! Your love for books , reading and your dedication to helping our students grow is greatly appreciated!!
The Mena Bearcats kicked off the 2025 baseball season with a win at Union Bank Park on Thursday.
Bearcats-12 (1-0)
Subiaco-2
Mena is back in action on Monday at Fort Smith Northside.
Congratulations to Robbie! He joined the 💯 point club today!
📚 We Read Wednesday is so much fun because we get to share all of our favorite books! 🎉
The Faculty and Staff at Louise Durham love books, reading and talking about all their favorite stories!
Meet Mrs. Taylor. She teaches and supports students Kindergarten-Second Grade. She works to model her love of books and reading with the students at Louise Durham as they are growing as readers everyday!
“I fell in love with Corduroy when my girls were little. Before my oldest knew how to read, she memorized all the words and would read it to me. 🥰
Corduroy teaches us to look beyond appearances and to remember the importance of friendship.”
📚~Mrs. Taylor
Corduroy by Dr Don Freeman
Check it out in our school library!
The Holly Harshman Elementary teachers and staff love reading, book talks, and sharing many of their favorite titles with you.
The HHE Principal, Tamara Smart, has chosen one of her all- time favorite read-alouds she loved sharing with her students when she was a teacher here at HHE (yes, she used to be a teacher! 😀)-The Naked Mole-Rat Letters written by Mary Amato.
“The Naked Mole Rat Letters by Mary Amato is about a 12-year-old girl named Frankie who discovers that her dad is emailing a zookeeper named Ayanna. Worried that this could mean big changes for her family, Frankie starts replying to the emails herself—without her dad knowing—trying to push Ayanna away. As the story unfolds, Frankie learns some important lessons about honesty, growing up, and the unexpected ways people can connect. It’s funny, heartfelt, and full of quirky moments (yes, including actual naked mole rats).
Check out this wonderful book at your school library!
The Polk County Spelling Bee was held on Wednesday. Congratulations to Rhythm McMellon for his 3rd place finish in 1st grade.
Six students represented Holly Harshman Elementary at the 2025 Polk County Spelling Bee on Wednesday! Each student displayed great courage and knowledge. Here are the results.
3rd Grade:
3rd Place Bode Schauble
4th Grade:
2nd Place: Julia Henry
5th Grade:
1st Place: Tristn Sanders
2nd Place: Wyatt Brosius
WE are so proud of all of them!
“Pick”le Your Choices Wisely Day! MMS Project Prevent team traded a Pickle for a pledge to be chew/spit tobacco free!
The Mena chess team competed at the DeQueen Mena Education Service Cooperative.
Dorian Knight won 1st place, and Elijah Smith won 2nd place.
Nikko is surpassing his Accelerated Reading 📖 goals left & right!! He’s at over 400 points and received a gift certificate for the restaurant of his choice! Reading takes you places- it’s taking Nikko to LaVilla!
Mena High School hosted the 2025 Special Olympics Basketball Skills Competition on Tuesday in the Union Bank Center. Athletes from Mena, Polk County Development Center, Cossatot River and Woodcrest competed. MHS students and community members helped coordinate the events and encouraged participants.
Mena High School athletes Elliot Dugan & Brynlee Bahr competed at the Arkansas Indoor High School Championships at the University of Arkansas on Saturday. Dugan finished 7th in the high jump and was 1st for 4A athletes. Bahr finished 7th in the pole vault and was 1st for 4A athletes.
Several other Mena athletes also competed and you can check complete results at the link below.
https://milesplit.live/meets/644394
Congratulations to the 2025 4A South Regional Champion Mena Bearcat Wrestling Team. See complete results at the link below.
https://www.trackwrestling.com/predefinedtournaments/MainFrame.jsp?newSession=false&TIM=1740272898974&pageName=%2Fpredefinedtournaments%2FTournamentResults.jsp&twSessionId=hgtvhmeobl
We Read Wednesday is so much fun because we get to share all of our favorite books! 🎉
The Faculty and Staff at Louise Durham love books, reading and talking about all their favorite stories!
Meet Mrs. Rowe. She teaches and supports students Kindergarten-Second Grade and shares her excitement for books and reading with her students.
"I love the Lorax by Dr Seuss. My kids really enjoyed the fun illustrations in The Lorax when they were younger. I love how the author uses a creative storyline to bring attention to the importance of being mindful of our resources, making what can be a heavy topic more accessible and engaging!"❤️📚~Mrs. Rowe
"The Lorax" by Dr Seuss
Check it out in our school library!
We Read Wednesday: Mrs Rose, our school counselor, is a reader! She loves self help books and is currently interested in books and magazines about homesteading and growing flowers. Magazines are a great type of reading that can help you learn all kinds of information.
