Members of the Mena Bearcat football team participated in the state Weight Meet hosted in Lake Hamilton . The participants were lifting by weight class with the two lifts being Bench and Power Clean. Overall the Mena Bearcat team finished near the top of 4A with many personal records set Jake Brotherton was the Overall State Champion for his weight class! Members of the team: Jayden Felix Colby Davis Nathan Needham Jeff Richmond Sulley Massey Cody Short JD Murphy Maddox Medlin Brody Peters Jaxon Baber Jake Brotherton

The Mena FFA Jr. High Trap team compete today in the West Region Trap Shoot in Jacksonville. The team competed well despite the windy conditions and place 11th! This qualifies them for the state shoot in June! Congratulations! Team Members: Drake Dollar, Dax McMellon, Grayson Farringer, Sean Maechler, Waylon Head, Hunter McClara, Tucker Stricklin, and Dylon Morris The Mena FFA Sr. High Trap team will compete tomorrow in the West Region Trap Shoot in Jacksonville.

The Mena High School Talent Show & Lip Sync Contest was performed for students on Friday. The public performance will be Saturday at 7:00pm in the MHS Performing Arts Center.

Mena Middle School students received their 2022 Yearbook today.

If you are making plans for the summer you may be interested to know that the Arkansas Activities Association has set aside June 26th-July-9th as athletic dead weeks. All AAA member schools will observe an annual mandatory two week athletic dead period running the week prior to July 4th and the week of July 4th. During this time coaches (licensed teacher coaches and registered volunteers) shall be prohibited from engaging in any type of activity involving student athletes whether it be practice, training, weight lifting, competition, or travel. Further, school athletic facilities will be closed to student athletes during this period. Schools that have the only baseball and softball fields in the community may allow the community to use the school fields during the dead period as long as no school teams are playing and no school coaches are coaching the teams.

Due to the projected inclement weather, all Regional Tournament games originally scheduled for Thursday will now be played on Friday. Both semi-finals and championship games will be played on Saturday starting at 10AM. This means the Mena Ladycats will play Hamburg on Friday at 10am in Malvern ! https://scorebooklive.com/.../2022-4a-south-region...

Members of the Mena High School Track Team competed in the Class 4A State Meet at Harrison on Tuesday. The girls were led by KARLEY SHARP who finished 6th in the 800m & 10th in the 1600m. The boys were led by LOGAN YANG who was 5th in the shot & JAKE BROTHERTON with a 6th place finish in the discus. See complete results at the link below https://ar.milesplit.com/.../467162-4a-state.../results

Ladycat Night #6 Sr High Freethrow Champ: Payton Clark Jr High Freethrow Champ: Makenley Sullivan 3 on 3 Champs: Payton Clark Makenley Sullivan Serenity Ehret 5 on 5 Champs: Payton Clark Chloe Hooper Annabelle Peters Makenley Sullivan Katie Rowe Kilee Rowe Tessa Williams Sponsors: Farm Bureau, Sterner Logging and a Loyal Ladycat Fan

Jessica Kropp's drama class at Mena High School performned the SeussOdyssey for 9th grade English classes on Tuesday. CHELSEY GREEN plays Odysseus & the others participating include: Olivia Butterfield Gael Fernandez Katelyn Hendricks Shauna Hughes Lily Rowland Addison Thomas Elisabeth Tosta Elizabeth Willis Emily Wynn

Mena Ladycat softball will play their first game in the 4A South Regional on Thursday at 10:00am against Hamburg in Malvern.

Mrs. Craig's book club finished reading Lemony Snicket's The Reptile Room, or Murder! In celebration for completing the book, Kambree Martin and her dad Paul Martin brought their 3 year old Ball Python to visit the class!

The Mena track team had a 13 man relay team for the Talimena half marathon this weekend! The kids ran in the last mile together and then they ran in with the last runner at the very end. GO BEARCATS!!! https://www.facebook.com/talimenarunandrelay/

The Mena boys and girls soccer games at Hope have been moved from Tuesday to Thursday to avoid conflict with State Track.

Mena Ladycat seniors Carleigh Smart & Libby Sharp were honored prior to the final home softball game on Friday. Mena Ladycats-9 Arkadelphia-0 Go Ladycats!!!

The Mena Bercats played their final game of the season on Friday at UA Rich Mountain's Union Bank Field. Mena Bearcats-2 Arkadelphia-9

Mena Middle School students competed in the DeQueen Mena Education Service Cooperative STEM Challenge on Friday. They placed in almost every competition.

Tune in FM101 on Monday & listen for TITUS THOMAS ! Titus will have this week's report from Louise Durham Elementary during Bearcat News. Only on Mena Public Schools Radio at 5:30am 6:00am 6:30am 7:00am 7:30am 8:00am Noon 12:30pm 3:00pm 3:30pm

The state track will be held on Tuesday in Harrison & several Ladycats will be competing. Including: Rylie Bentley-4x800 Karley Sharp-4x800, 800, 1600 Jaden Roberts-High Jump, Long Jump Rylie McClara-4x800 Joselyn Hernandez-4x800 GO LADYCATS!!!

The state track will be held on Tuesday in Harrison & several Bearcats will be competing. Including: Tre McMellon-4x800 Logan Yang-Shot Jake Brotherton-Discus Wilson Hughes-4x800 Paul Putz-4x800 Auston Kerkendoll-4x800 GO BEARCATS!!!

Mr. Andy Philpot and staff unveiled the 2022 Mena High School Yearbook to students & staff on Friday. The 2022 yearbook staff included Lexi Dilbeck Cassidy Ashcraft Leilani Knight Emma Threlkeld Angel Rodriguez Christina Ortiz Brady Montgomery Trevin Plunkett Mia Goforth Kiylee Hughes Brooklyn Hilberbrand-Marzett Makayla Vega Cadence Barnes Emily May