Stories from Friday, October 14, 2011

Jessie Lois French, 97, of Blytheville, died Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011 at Great River Medical Center.

I am a student at Arkansas State University Master of Social Work program. In social work policy advocacy class, we are to discuss a social welfare issue. Unemployment is a big social welfare issue in Arkansas as well as across the world. Unemployment rates have been fluctuating since 1990. ...

Mr. John Kenneth Nichols, 64, died Saturday, Oct. 8, 2011.

Shenna Ra'Nette Whaley and Ozzie Harold Green III, both of Blytheville, are plannning a Nov. 5, 2011, wedding at Open Door House of Prayer in Blytheville.

Why do you keep on writing a long page about the missing tax money? It's getting old. All they have to do is to give those people that have to do with the money a lie detector test. It's that simple. Why haven't you come up with this idea? And why hasn't anybody with any smarts not came up with this idea?...

I have once again been abandoned by my Dear Sweet Sainted Wife, who has removed herself to Columbia, Mo., to be there for Leah-Bo's fourth birthday (Wednesday) and to stay through the weekend (Alex and Leah-Bo's parents both having to work, weekend babysitters scarce, Dear Sweet Sainted Wife happy to oblige).

Arts Council of Mississippi County executive director David Lyttle and assistant director Ken Jackson spoke at Thursday's "Coffee Talk" held at the Ramey Center at the Westminster Village. Each Thursday, the group sits down to coffee and doughnuts while discussing news from around the Village and then hearing from a guest speaker. Lyttle and Jackson talked to the group about upcoming events for the Arts Council and Act 2!, as well as talking about the importance of becoming a patron or sponsor...

The American Red Cross in Blytheville is having its fourth annual Murder Mystery Dinner Saturday.

Ron St. Laurent is the latest applicant for Thunder Bayou Golf Links interim superintendent position.

The Blytheville City Council's Parks and Recreation Committee interviewed one of the three bidders for the Delta Gateway Museum tuckpointing project, Thursday.

The city of Blytheville is expected to rope off an area on the east side of the Kress Building on Main Street before this weekend's United Way Chili Cookoff.

When she was growing up as part of a farming family in Dell, Dru Duncan dreamed of moving away from the flatlands of Mississippi County. Yet, after having made a life for herself elsewhere, cotton farming country is exactly where she ended up settling.

This week's Pet of the Week at the Blytheville Humane Society is Charm, a female Domestic Short Hair cat. Charm is a loving girl with a charming personality. She is house-trained. For more information, call the Humane Society at 870-838-5512 or send email to humanesociety1@earthlink.net.

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