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Sportsplex getting new scoreboards
(Local News ~ 03/17/10)
The Blytheville City Council voted 4-0 Tuesday night to allow Farmers Bank and Trust to participate in replacing scoreboards at the Blytheville Youth Sportsplex. In exchange, the local bank will have advertising rights on the scoreboards for the next 10 years...
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Police, sheriff's office accused of harassment
(Local News ~ 03/17/10)
An African-American Blytheville woman said she was "harassed and humiliated" by the Blytheville Police Department and Mississippi County Sheriff's Office after being arrested and leveled accusations of racial profiling. Addressing the Blytheville City Council Tuesday night, Louise Heard, who lives on Normandy Extended, said officers made offensive remarks while she was in a holding cell. She said officers were talking about where she resides, her vehicles and her trips out of town...
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Citizens urged to get weather radios
(Local News ~ 03/17/10)
The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management (ADEM) is reminding residents of the importance of having a NOAA weather radio in the home after the recent rash of tornadoes in the state that resulted in one fatality, at least four injuries and extensive property loss...
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Benefit auction set for Friday
(Local News ~ 03/17/10)
Sisters Debbie Finch and Lisa Ballard, both Gosnell Elementary School teachers, are organizing an a night of fun and fellowship Friday at the Walker Park Flee Market to benefit David and Cindy Shelton. Finch and Ballard explained that Cindy Shelton, enrichment and GATE teacher and Gosnell School District faculty member of 27 years, is in remission after battling two different types of cancer. ...
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State reps chime in on health care issue
(Local News ~ 03/17/10)
Health care reform has been hotly debated by the U.S. Congress and U.S. Senate for a year, with divided opinions in both houses. As President's Barack Obama's health care bill is presented to Congress this week, Mississippi County's state representatives took the time to give their opinion of the issue...
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Why do we wear green?
(Local News ~ 03/17/10)
Why do we wear green on St. Patrick's Day? Why do we pinch someone who is not wearing green? Today is St. Patrick's Day, the day set aside to honor St. Patrick, who was actually born in Britain, and as a teenager was enslaved and taken to Ireland. He worked as a shepherd for six years before escaping back to Britain, according to History.com...
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James H. Cox
(Obituary ~ 03/17/10)
James Henry Cox, 82, of Manila, died Tuesday, March 16, 2010, at the Gosnell Health Care Center. Born at New Albany, Miss., he was the son of the late John Henry and Bessie Mae Cox and had lived most of his life in Blytheville. He was a retired farmer and former employee of the City of Manila and had been a Manila resident for the past 15 years...
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