Stories from Friday, November 13, 2009

While most local residents are still finishing their Halloween candy and just starting to work up an appetite for Thanksgiving turkey, the staff at the Greater Blytheville Area Chamber of Commerce is already thinking Christmas. Plans are in high gear for the Chamber's annual Blytheville Christmas Parade. This year's event will be at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 4, along Main Street in downtown Blytheville...

Highway 61 arch at state line is only one of its kind

Conrad Reynolds brings a fresh approach to politics. "I'll only be beholden to the people of Arkansas," he said. Reynolds is seeking to unseat Sen. Blanche Lambert Lincoln in next year's general election. Reynolds, who was in Blytheville Thursday visiting with the Mississippi County Republican Party, is a retired Army colonel, after 29 years working as an intelligence officer...