After months of discussion about the location of the county’s transfer station, the Grant County Quorum Court voted on Monday, June 17 to approve the move.

Currently, the transfer station is located at the entrance to the ball fields at the Sheridan Recreation Center on Highway 46. The vote will move the station to an area near the Grant County Road Department on Oklahoma Street. To avoid traffic problems, residents of Grant County will access the transfer station through Gatzke Drive instead of Oklahoma Street.

Jeremy Orman tiptoed to a 5-vote victory in a runoff bid for a seat on the Sheridan School Board, and while his opponent, Jan Caldwell, said she was not going to ask for a recount, she did express concern about the low number of polling places open to patrons on election day.

Voters took to the polls in May to settle a three-person race that itself was razor close. In that election, Orman received 488 votes, Caldwell got 481, and Margaret Dobson received 421. In Tuesday’s runoff, Orman received 728 votes to Caldwell’s 723.

The Sheridan School Board met at the Central Administration Building at 7 p.m. on Monday, June 10 and navigated through an agenda full of proposals of changes for the 2019-2020 school year among other items.

The meeting kicked off with the district’s monthly Spotlight Successes. Sheridan Junior High School advisor Allison Michau earned first and second place  in Region 2 for the Economics Arkansas Stock Market Award. Sheridan Intermediate School advisor Sheri DeSoto was the first and second place winner in Region 2 in the Elementary School Division of the awards.

At the June meeting of the Sheridan City Council, the topic of an ordinance violation came up in terms of the Legacy Pointe subdivision on Highway 270.

This marked the second time that Spud Properties, run by Cliff Crouse and Chad Graves, had run afoul of a city ordinance that mandates the minimum distance houses must be from the property line.

Dozens of members of Kick Start Sheridan filled Sheridan City Hall on Friday, June 21 to hear a proposal about moving the Sheridan Little League baseball fields from its current location to the Sheridan Recreation Center.

Kick Start Sheridan Co-Chair Brad McGinley kicked off the meeting saying this “could be the first meeting of many.”

The Poyen School Board met on Thursday, June 20 at the Jerry and Ouida Newton Arena one of the items on the agenda was naming the officers of the board for the upcoming year.

The board has traditionally had a rotating schedule for deciding who fills which position. Two of the positions were to be filled by members who are no longer on the board, so the members that replaced them filled the officer positions. When the board reconvenes in August, the new school board president will be Rachel Wallis, while the vice president will be Kelli Hopkins. Brad Austin will fill the role of secretary.