Stories from Saturday, January 8, 2022

After 10 years as the state representative for District 55, Monte Hodges (D-Blytheville) announced his campaign for U.S. Congress on Jan. 5. “I’m running for Congress because I was born and raised by a single mom here in the Delta, in Blytheville, Ark.,” Hodges said. ...

During a two-hour special meeting Tuesday night, the Blytheville School Board game planned with its superintendent search firm, BWP, to hammer out the details of the superintendent search process. The board agreed to set the salary range from $125,000 to $150,000 and approved a timeline, which seeks to have a superintendent chosen by spring break in March...