Alma School District

8/31/22 There’s a unique bond between Alma’s nine senior volleyball players that will keep bond them together long after their final match. “Being able to create friends...

8/31/22 Chase Parker completed all nine of his passes for 118 yards and two touchdowns to power Alma to a 16-8 win over Siloam Springs. Alma (1-1) had several big plays ...

8/30/22 Alma volleyball coach Kim Weaver is ready for her players to take the next step. Her players are ready, too. Alma finished 2-1-1 at the Alma Volleyball Tournamen...

8/29/22 Alma junior high volleyball coach Whitney Adams is excited about her group of players. The 2022 junior high squad includes Chloe Gregory. “(Gregory) is ...

8/24/22 The weight of a community rested on the strong legs of Joe Trusty. On third-and-goal with under half a minute to play, the big quarterback burled his way into the end to ...

8/29/22 Former Arkansas high school football coach Barry Lunney Sr. told me a long time ago how important it was for administrators to have the school's football team win an earl...

8/23/22 CHARLESTON — Beating a 3A school in the first week of the season isn't something that will make those you're chasing in the 5A-West take notice. But the team's...

8/22/22 The hay is in the barn. The turf at Citizens Bank Field at Airedale Stadium has been picked clean. After months of preparation, Alma football coach Rusty Bush is eager fo...

8/22/22 HUNTSVILLE — Alma coach Kim Weaver saw plenty of good things in Monday's benefit match with Huntsville and Springdale. She also will use the next few days working on ...

Alma junior high football coach Derrick Haney was pleased with his team’s effort this week in Tuesday’s scrimmage with Ozark. “I am really proud of how hard we played dur...

8/16/22 OZARK - The Ozark Hillbillies’ running game isn’t where coach Jeremie Burns expects it to be by mid-October. But the Hillbillies did more than enough to fend off...

8/15/22 Joe Trusty’s biggest off-season loss may be his biggest gain. In 2021, Trusty threw for 2,192 yards and 19 touchdowns. Of that, Conner Stacy accounted for 1,306 ...

8/12/22 Alma officials spent the week fine-tuning a state-of-the-art video board that will be placed in the north end. The board, which will be 27 ½ feet high and 40 feet wide, i...

8/12/22 Kim Weaver isn’t the only coach to have been affected by the events of COVID-19. There were other first-year coaches who had to overcome numerous obstacles such as the sp...

8/12/22 Second-year Alma tennis coach Bryan Jernigan plans to use the first week of the tennis season as a measuring stick. The Airedales kicked off the 2022 campaign t...

8/8/22 The look on Reagan Birchfield’s face told the story within the story. “It was bad for me last year to stand there, because I couldn’t stand it, really,” Birchfiel...

7/29/22 The tears welling in Ida Lewis' eyes tell the story of the family patriarch she never knew. Not in life. Last year, the longtime Alma High School office assista...

7/28/22 Joey Potts is the kid in eighth grade you couldn’t wait to see at school the next day. Funny, afable. A decade-plus after setting roots in Alma, Potts is still ...

7/20/22 Derrick Haney peers over his roster with the look of a surgeon. Soon, it will be blistering hot on the artificial surface at Airedale Stadium. But for now, a slight ...

7/15/22 The long road to respectability included some highs and lows this summer. This week, on the hot artificial surface at Hunt’s Park, Alma baseball coach Brian Fry got a gl...