Stories from Sunday, February 12, 2012

In honor of Valentine's Day this year, I am going to bring you, in my own rambling way, the first installment of a grand, sweeping romance -- one that spans continents and years, and ends up right here in this little town on the Mississippi River.

Members of the Mississippi County Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Arkansas, in conjunction with the Blytheville Boys and Girls Club, the Master Gardeners, EOC and First United Missionary Baptist Church announced this week that they will continue in the upcoming year to expand their community garden program.

Today Blytheville residents of all races live all across the community. Many current residents, however, can remember a time when segregation reigned and the city was rigidly divided into two sections, "colored" and "white."