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The Marion Patriots Activities Network (MPAN) continues to grow every year, and the fall of 2025 has been no different. In fact, MPAN reached 55,687 viewers with its football and...

If you are looking for your fix of Marion hoops this holiday season, then you are in luck. As the Marion girls and boys basketball teams partake in holiday tournaments over their...

LITTLE ROCK --- Marion second-year head coach, Sammie Lewis, did not flinch when his team trailed Bryant by 10 points after the first quarter on Saturday evening. Lewis didn't pa...

The Marion Lady Patriots have improved every game so far in the early going of this season. Tuesday night, Marion's hard work paid off. The Lady Pats outscored Class 6A Conway by...

Second-year Marion coach Sammie Lewis expected a four-quarter game Tuesday night against Jonesboro inside Fidelity Bank Arena. He got that, as well as a sentimental home victory...

Marion's run to the 2025 Class 5A state final last spring featured no shortage of heroes, not the least of which was Coleman Barnett. The senior utility player and all-conference...

The Marion VPA Singers, Marion Junior High School, and Marion High School Choirs will present the “We Are the Lights” Christmas Concert at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 16, at the Marion P...

Eight Marion football players earned postseason awards after their team finished 7-5 this season, including the fifth quarterfinal appearance over the past eight seasons. Senior ...

Congratulations to the 70 Marion Junior High Band Members who earned a position in the Region IV All Region Honor Band during auditions held Saturday (Dec. 6) in Cabot. This was a...

The Marion Patriot Pride Band Program will wrap up the semester with a pair of holiday concerts set for next week at the Marion Performing Arts Center. The festivities will begin...

Marion's basketball teams got a good look at two of the state's top talents Tuesday evening inside Fidelity Bank Arena. To their credit, the Patriot boys and girls teams played L...

The Marion Performing Arts Center will roar to life this weekend as students from Marion Visual & Performing Arts Magnet transform the stage into the Pride Lands for a vibrant, hi...

SHERWOOD --- For most of last Friday night's game at 6A East co-champion Sylvan Hills, Marion looked like a team bound for the state semifinals. The Patriots led by double-digits...

A championship season is ultimately defined by just that, a championship. The presence of the gold medal or the biggest trophy is what most people ultimately remember, but that's...

Marion fifth-year head coach, Lance Clark, was searching for the right metaphor for his team's 2025 performance when it suddenly hit him. His hands moved up and down as he descri...

Marion's boys basketball season is underway, and the Patriots have already claimed a couple of big-time non-conference victories over regional powers. The Patriots opened their 20...

VAN BUREN --- The Van Buren Pointers ended Marion's 2024 football season in dramatic fashion last November, scoring with less than a minute on the clock to stun the Patriots insid...

The world was a dramatically different place in 2004, to say the least. President George W. Bush won reelection in early November of that year, easily defeating John Kerry. Faceb...

Fresh off an exceptional marching competition season, more than 20 members of the Marion Patriot Band earned positions in the ASBOA Region IV All-Region Jazz Band. A total of 22 ...

BENTON --- For one half, the Marion Patriots played 6A East kingpin Benton to a draw. The 2025 regular season finale at Everett Field was knotted at 14 at halftime, and the Patrio...