Apply for 2025 Youth Tour
Calling all area high-school JUNIORS interested in a FREE trip to Washington DC!!Applications are now live for our 2025 Youth Tour. If you know a high school junior in our…
The seventh cooperative principle is Concern for Community
Colton Rusco, a senior at Brookland High School, awarded Lineman Scholarship
Craighead Electric Awards High Voltage Lineman Scholarship to Brookland High School Senior
Craighead Electric Cooperative Corporation is proud to announce the recipient of this year's High Voltage Lineman Scholarship, Colton Rusco. This scholarship recognizes exceptional dedication and promise in the field of…
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Holiday Greeting Card Contest 2023
Craighead Electric is looking for elementary students (kindergarten through fifth grade) to submit a holiday card design.The winning design will be used for the official 2023 Craighead Electric holiday card!…
A petting zoo is one of the many fun activities at Jackson Farm in Black Rock.
Member Spotlight: Jackson Farm
If you’re looking for a fun and cozy way to spend a fall weekend, you should check out Jackson Farm in Black Rock. This charming farm has everything you need…
Taking application to the 2022 Youth Tour
Craighead electric cooperative is now accepting applications to the 2022 Youth Tour. We will send two deserving area students on an all-expense-paid chaperoned trip to Washington D.C. with 40 other Arkansas students to see our nation's capital. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
2021 Youth Tour Goes Virtual
The annual Electric Cooperative Youth Tour gives selected local area Juniors to learn about their community, State, and Nation, by meeting with and learning from their representatives in government and other community leaders.
Pictured from left to right is Blake Massey, Ann
Marie Covington (undergraduate at A-State), Kyle Edmonds (USFS), Heather Custer (A-State graduate student) with a guano collector
Bat habitat update
It has been nearly a year since Craighead Electric Cooperative, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, Arkansas State University, and others teamed up on a conservation initiative to help an endangered native bat species in Arkansas and the biologists working on the project have some exciting news to share.
Craighead Electric staff assist in the installation of an artificial bat habitat.
Craighead Electric Cooperative assists in endangered bat conservation
Craighead Electric Cooperative teams up with community partners to assist in the conservation of the endangered Indiana bat erecting new habitat for a colony located in the Shirey Bay Rainey Brake Wildlife Management Area near Strawberry.
Craighead Electric employees donate to local charitable groups
In 2018, the Co-Op Cares campaign was launched as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. It is an employee-sponsored community fund with the mission to support various local charitable organizations. It does not receive any funding from Craighead Electric or its members. Employee contribution is voluntary, but Co-Op Cares currently benefits from over 90% employee participation.
Operation Razorback 2018
Linemen return from Guatemala
Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas linemen, including Terry Harkey with Craighead Electric of Jonesboro, recently completed a mission to electrify two remote Guatemalan villages near the Mexican border, resulting in approximately 105 villagers having electricity for the first time.