Stories from Wednesday, August 19, 2015

KIPP Blytheville College Preparatory School was one of two middle schools chosen out of 162 KIPP schools across the country to have student artwork featured at an art show and silent auction at the annual KIPP School Summit, held recently in Anaheim, California. ...

Richard Berry Harrison High School's Alumni, otherwise known as the Harrisonites, Incorporated held their 2015 bi-annual reunion on Thursday, August 6, Friday, August 7 and Saturday, August 8. There were over 400 Harrisonites, guests, businesses and workers teamed to make this historical event possible...

Arkansas's senior U.S. Senator John Boozman-R visited the Wilson Cafe and the Burge Building in the town of Wilson Wednesday afternoon, as part of his fifth annual tour of the state. Boozman has traditionally visited Mississippi County during the Congressional August recess in order to talk about agricultural issues with those that live agriculture everyday...

Mississippi County officials may soon be considering a measure which would limit economic development incentive funds to connections with jobs given to Mississippi County residents only. The current trend for economic development contracts is for the county to offer a sum of money, usually $10,000, per job created by a new or expanding industry. ...

The Blytheville City Council, in their regular August meeting, passed Ordinance No. 1785 by a vote of 5-1, which levies a new 1 percent Sales and Use Tax upon all goods sold retail and an excise (Use Tax) on the "storage, use, distribution or other consumption of tangible personable property" within the City of Blytheville, pending approval in a special election. Councilman Tommy Abbott cast the only "no" vote...