Stories from Wednesday, August 15, 2018

The Blytheville Chickasaws will have their first four regular season games at home this year. After spending the first four weeks on the road last season, the Chicks will play in front of the home crowd six times this season on their one-year-old turf field...

The two-time defending 3-4A conference champion Gosnell Pirates will host Paragould Thursday night in a AAA benefit game. The Pirates are coming off a 9-4 season under Coach Brandon Barbaree, who enters his third year at the helm. GHS has been to the 4A state quarterfinals both seasons under Barbaree...

Coach Ben Fisher and the Blytheville Chickasaws will host the Mountain Home Bombers Thursday night in a preseason AAA benefit game at Haley Field. The Chicks played the Bombers in the 2017 Arkansas Activities Association benefit game, but due to the turf project being done on Haley Field the Chicks went to Mountain Home where they narrowly defeated MHHS, 6-3...

With summertime coming to a close, a nearly three-month absence of activity within our local schools ends as well. Monday marked the return to classrooms for many of the area students and things appear to be going smoothly from Armorel to Gosnell and everything in between...

As of Tuesday afternoon, there is a race for the Blytheville City Council Ward 1, Position 2. Donald Driskell filed Tuesday and will challenge incumbent Councilman Stan Parks. There is a three-way race for mayor. Harold L. Sudbury, Jr. filed Friday afternoon, joining incumbent Mayor James Sanders and Tom Henry...

The Armorel School Board met Monday night, hearing from superintendent Jennifer Barbaree and High School and Elementary principals Theresa Lawrence and Joey Carr about how the first day of school went earlier in the day and open house that took place last Thursday...

Blytheville Chief of Police Ross Thompson hopes to expand the department's SkyCop surveillance technology again soon. Thompson told the CN Thursday that he intends to recommend that the city purchase a few of the pole-mounted SkyCop units at next month's Police and Fire Committee meeting. The pole-mounted units differ from the mobile unit, which the city currently owns, in cost, size and maneuverability...