🌱 What a billion-dollar data center could mean for Arkadelphia’s future

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In today's newsletter:

• What a billion-dollar data center could mean for Arkadelphia’s future
• Arkadelphia native takes influential seat on Arkansas State Board of Health
• Meet the Texarkana athlete choosing Arkadelphia’s Ouachita Baptist University

Also on today's calendar: Arkadelphia Badgers vs Nashville Scrappers and 4 more events.

Today's riddle: What did the inventor of the knock-knock joke win? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Friday: Partly sunny, with a high of 86 and low of 65 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
• Saturday: Showers and a heavier t-storm, temps: high: 70, low: 43.
• Sunday: Mostly sunny and nice, with a high of 74 and low of 45 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Data center eyes Clark County, set to buy mega site in $11M deal - (arkadelphian.com) — A massive data center campus is planned just five miles south of Arkadelphia at the Southwest Arkansas Mega Site in Gum Springs, following county approval of an $11.4 million land sale. The project, backed by an as-yet-unnamed buyer, could bring about 150 technical and trade jobs, a $1 billion investment, and tens of millions in annual tax revenue without straining Arkadelphia’s power or water systems, officials say.
   

• Sanders Appoints NYITCOM's Speights to Arkansas State Board of Health (neareport.com) — An Arkadelphia native and Henderson State graduate, Dr. Shane Speights, has been appointed by Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders to the Arkansas State Board of Health. Now dean of NYITCOM at Arkansas State in Jonesboro, he’ll help shape statewide health policy, with a focus on improving care for underserved and rural communities across Arkansas.
   

• Texarkana Texas High Spring Signing Day 2026 Results (kkam.com) — One Texas High swimmer is headed to Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, bringing local college sports a new recruit. The story highlights six Texarkana athletes signing to play soccer, softball, swimming, football, and baseball at colleges across Texas, Arkansas, Colorado, and Louisiana, celebrating years of work and community support behind their achievements.
   

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📸 Around Arkadelphia

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Arkadelphia

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★ Featured events ★

Monday April 20

• Arkadelphia Badgers vs Lake Hamilton Wolves
  Arkadelphia Sports Complex, 2540 Country Club Rd, Arkadelphia
  5:00 pm

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Other local events

Tuesday April 21

• Arkadelphia Badgers vs Nashville Scrappers
  Arkadelphia Sports Complex , 2540 Country Club Rd , Arkadelphia
  5:00 pm

Thursday April 23

• Arkadelphia Badgers vs Central Arkansas Christian Mustangs
  Arkadelphia Sports Complex , 2540 Country Club Rd , Arkadelphia
  4:30 pm

Friday April 24

• Arkadelphia Badgers vs Bauxite Miners
  Arkadelphia Senior High School , 401 High School Dr , Arkadelphia
  5:00 pm

Monday May 4

• Arkadelphia Badgers vs Arkansas High School
  Arkadelphia Senior High School , 401 High School Dr , Arkadelphia
  5:00 pm

Tuesday May 5

• Arkadelphia Badgers vs Hope Bobcats
  Arkadelphia Senior High School , 401 High School Dr , Arkadelphia
  5:00 pm

Thursday May 7

• Accelerate: Navigating Mental Health in the Workplace | Sponsored by Roger Wingfield State Farm
  Fairfield by Marriott Inn & Suites Arkadelphia , 258 Red Hill Rd , Arkadelphia
  11:30 am

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🗓 Events Nearby

Friday April 17

• Arkadelphia Badgers vs Dequeen Leopards
  Arkadelphia Sports Complex , 2540 Country Club Rd , Arkadelphia
  5:00 pm
• Arkadelphia Badgers vs Magnolia Panthers
  Arkadelphia Senior High School , 401 High School Dr , Arkadelphia
  5:00 pm

Friday June 19

• Super Summer 2026
  Ouachita Baptist University , 410 Ouachita St , Arkadelphia
  7:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• The J.M. Smucker Company posted a job opening for Quality Assurance Supervisor in Arkadelphia. Apply here.
• Brookshire Grocery Company posted a job opening for Cashier in Arkadelphia. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Arkadelphia here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Malvern

• UAM hosts region's largest collegiate timbersports event (magnoliareporter.com)

Hot Springs

• Hot Springs National Park turns 194, splashes out a week of free family fun (katv.com)
• City Manager Bill Burrough touts Hot Springs' progress in 2025 Hot Springs Sentinel Record (hotsr.com)
• Face of Construction Services: McHenry & Meyer Companies, LLC (armoneyandpolitics.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: The NO-BELL prize (Thank you Gina M. for sending it in!)
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