Good morning, Jonesboro.

NEA Children’s Museum will host a half-mile color run to raise funds and celebrate its land lease on Sunday, Nov.

15, 3–5 p.m., starting at the Pavilion downtown; activities include inflatables, a petting zoo, face painting, and food vendors + registrants who sign up by Nov. 1 receive a T-shirt.

K8 StormTeam announced a new Brookland Roofing and Construction StormTracker (a 2026 Chevy Silverado) equipped with weather sensors, five cameras, and roof lights that the team will use for severe-weather coverage and school visits.

Students at the Visual and Performing Arts Magnet School are rehearsing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to prepare for upcoming school performances at the campus theater (dates to be announced).

AAA says Arkansas' average price for regular gasoline fell 8 cents this week to $3.80 a gallon, with Jonesboro averaging $3.79, Fort Smith at $3.88, and Hot Springs the least at $3.57.

More than 300 job openings were offered at a job fair inside the Paragould Community Center, with 21 businesses participating + Teresa Branch, Paragould Chamber director of workforce development, coordinated the event + jobseekers can contact the chamber for follow-up.

Rivercrest Elementary held a ribbon-cutting today for a $507,000 inclusive playground students helped design that features sensory pods and wheelchair-accessible equipment after a $400,000 donation from Cypress Creek Energy.

David McClain of State Farm lays out the differences between term, whole, universal, and final-expense life insurance and says buying coverage younger usually costs less; his Jonesboro office can help families choose the right policy (2512 Southwest Square) (870-935-1717).

Jonesboro received a $900,000-plus grant from the Arkansas Department of Transportation to build a roughly 1.5-mile shared-use path connecting Southern Hills to Craighead Forest Park to improve pedestrian safety.

Construction plans aren’t finalized and work could take a year or more to complete.

Nine months after a December burial mix-up at Caraway Cemetery (off Cemetery Road), a veteran who bought three plots is buried in the wrong grave and his nephew is pushing the city to exhume and move him next to his parents; city officials say exhumation requires legal steps and no move was promised.

A-State head coach Mike Silva spoke at Red Wolves Raw about the team's 2026 fall ball and outlined plans for the 2027 schedule (including upcoming nonconference dates and preparation steps for players).

Arkansas State cross country runs at the Sun Belt Conference Championships today at Graham Creek Nature Preserve in Foley, with the men's 8K at 8:30 a.m. and the women's 5K at 9:15 a.m.; Carlo Martinez-Jaramillo and Erika Krueger lead the Red Wolves.

Arkansas State announced its 2026-27 track and field schedule (22 regular-season meets); the indoor season will begin Dec.

4-5, and the Red Wolves Invitational will be April 23-24 in Jonesboro.