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Geraldine Franklin Hicks
(Obituary ~ 07/27/13)
Mrs. Geraldine Franklin Hicks, 55, of Blytheville, died Thursday at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro. Funeral arrangements will be announced by McDonald-Horne Funeral Home.
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Ward meeting held
(Local News ~ 07/27/13)
Blytheville residents gathered at the Blytheville Public Library Saturday for the quarterly ward meeting facilitated by City Councilman R.L. Jone
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Weather, other delays push back project to summer '14
(Local News ~ 07/27/13)
After a series of delays, the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department is now looking at a summer 2014 completion date for the Highway 18 railroad overpass and Highway 61 connection project. Rain has been one of the major delays, according to Highway Department district construction engineer Brad Smithee, especially for the road work that needs to be done to connect Highway 61 with the overpass. ...
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MSB eyes new ways to raise money
(Local News ~ 07/27/13)
Main Street Blytheville is getting ready to launch a whole new fundraising campaign that offers supporters new opportunities to get involved, and it is being kicked off with some user-friendly investment tools geared toward individual investors. Each year the Main Street Blytheville organization receives a significant portion of its yearly budget from the City of Blytheville, and the remaining amounts come from fundraising events and corporate and individual investments. ...
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Pathway group performs mission work at Venezuelan orphanage
(Local News ~ 07/27/13)
A group of volunteers from Pathway Ministries traveled to Venezuela earlier this month to help support a children's orphanage. "Samuel's House" is an orphanage outside of the city of Caracas that was started in 2005 by Assemblies of God missionaries, Gary and Patty Heiney. Pathway members Anglia and Scott Herron were there in 2005 when the orphanage was in its infancy and returned this summer, along with some friends, to help expand the facility...
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Blytheville tax rate to drop Oct. 1
(Local News ~ 07/27/13)
The city of Blytheville recently received notification that the city sales tax rate will be dropping to 1.25 percent on Oct. 1. A letter from the Department of Finance and Administration also shows the city of Osceola's enacted 1 percent on that same date...
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Blytheville Police reports
(Local News ~ 07/27/13)
Recent reports from the Blytheville Police Department: 7/25 Officers were dispatched to Park Street in reference to criminal mischief. The victim reported damages to his white Lexus GX460 totaling $700. 7/25 Officers were dispatched to North Sixth Street in reference to Breaking or Entering to a vehicle. Stolen was a 9MM Beretta gun worth $650...
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Police should follow up on felonies against animals
(Column ~ 07/27/13)
I realize that all animal owners are not going to love their pets as they do their children but, how do you just move away and leave pets without any food or water? When is it they just stop caring about their animals enough that they leave them tied to a fence without food and water? Why would you leave them shut up in a house without food and water?...
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Casons fall to Bryant in state tourney
(High School Sports ~ 07/27/13)
MOUNTAIN HOME -- A walk-off single with two outs in the bottom of the ninth lifted defending state champion Bryant over the Blytheville ANC Casons Saturday afternoon in the AAA American Legion State Tournament. Blytheville will play the Mountain Home at 10 a.m. Sunday, trying to stave off elimination in the double-elimination tournament...
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