GAC football: "Battle of the Ravine" rips Arkadelphia today

Nov 10, 2012 | News

The final Saturday of regular-season football in the Great American Conference features several long-standing rivalries headlined by the Southern Bancorp Battle of the Ravine between Henderson State and Ouachita Baptist. The KTEN Cup will be up for grabs when East...

Press Conference for 'Battle of the Ravine' football game

Nov 5, 2012 | News

Henderson State University and Ouachita Baptist will hold a press conference on Monday, November 5, 2012 at the Embassy Suites in Little Rock. The press conference will immediately follow the Little Rock Touchdown Club meeting to announce details of the Southern...

Police department overhaul coming to Helena-West-Helena

Oct 9, 2012 | News

There’s a police department overhaul in the works for a part of Arkansas long known for corruption. The police chief in Helena-West-Helena announced some major improvement plans for the force during a press conference Tuesday. They are aimed at better tracking...

Haven UMC MLK Park donation

Sep 25, 2012 | News

Haven United Methodist Church members and VBS participants are pictured inside of the Greyhound Bus Station presenting a check to Clarksdale Revitalization Inc., Director Mac Crank in support of the new KaBOOM!! Playground that will soon be installed in Martin Luther...

Plenty of green in new bank

Sep 20, 2012 | News

A local building is the first bank branch in Mississippi to become LEED certified. Shortly after the opening of the Southern Bancorp Hernando Branch in summer 2011, the bank applied for LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification. The United...

Southern Bancorp branch earns LEED certification

Sep 18, 2012 | News

Shortly after the opening of the Southern Bancorp Hernando Branch in summer 2011, Southern applied for LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification. The United States Green Building Council (USGBC) has now awarded the Hernando Branch its LEED...

KaBOOM! fundraising complete

Aug 23, 2012 | News, Southern Bancorp Community Partners

Dozens of people, adults and children, swarmed Martin Luther King, Jr Park Tuesday afternoon for hotdogs and music in a celebration of a new playground that is expected to get built later this year, provided the project can raise an additional $10,000 for a fence. Mac...

$15,000 donated for Hoops conversion project

Aug 9, 2012 | News

Southern Bancorp recently presented Main Street Blytheville with a $15,000 donation to be used for the demolition and construction of the old Hoops Drive-In lot. The lot, located next to the Greyhound Bus Station, is being turned into a landscaped parking lot....

KaBoom! playground design contest nets clay psychedelic catch

Jul 17, 2012 | News

An effort to gin up support for the proposed KaBOOM! playground at Martin Luther King, Jr. park yielded one child $100 and project organizers a psychedelic clay playground model. The project was intended to give a group of summer school children an opportunity to get...

Southern Bancorp offers 3-to-1 match on playground

Jul 10, 2012 | News, Southern Bancorp Community Partners

Lois Erwin, the director of the Delta Bridge Project, said she’s hopeful that a Southern Bancorp offer to match donations will bump up community support for a KaBOOM! playground project that must find funding by this fall. The KaBOOM! project would, if it is funded,...