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Casons' season comes to an end
(High School Sports ~ 07/21/14)
JONESBORO--The Blytheville Hardy Sales and Service Casons season came to an end Saturday night after a 3-2 loss to the host, Jonesboro Ricemen, in the semifinal round of the AAA American Legion Zone 2 Tournament. With the game tied at 2-2 in the bottom of the ninth and a trip to the state tournament in Bryant on the line, Jonesboro plated a walk-off run to advance to the zone championship round as well as the state tournament...
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Mississippi County offers many unique destinations
(Letter to the Editor ~ 07/21/14)
We are writing in response to a recent opinion article from your July 9 edition titled "Don't oversell local tourism." The author had recently visited the boyhood home of Johnny Cash and the Dyess Administration building, and to put it kindly, he was not very impressed...
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Shelter Stories -- 7/22/14
(Community News ~ 07/21/14)
Blytheville Humane Society volunteers and dogs had a very successful day at Hollywood Feed pet adoption in Jonesboro. Gerti, the beautiful Scottish Terrier, went home with a family from Conway (their Scotty had died a few months earlier). Sox and two other Chihuahuas lost their person and the Humane Society found them a foster home. ...
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Stormy Lucinda Tucker Gargus
(Obituary ~ 07/21/14)
Stormy Lucinda Tucker Gargus, 27, went to be with the Lord on Saturday, July 19, 2014, at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.
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Equipment costs running high for landfill
(Local News ~ 07/21/14)
With spending on equipment becoming a concern for the county landfill, the Quorum Court's Sanitation Committee met Monday with director Nathan Taylor to look at the reasons for rising costs.
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Harold Don Spivey
(Obituary ~ 07/21/14)
Mr. Harold Don Spivey, 77, of Marked Tree, died Sunday, June 20, 2014, in West Memphis.
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Mary Louise George
(Obituary ~ 07/21/14)
Mrs. Mary Louise George, 66, of Hot Springs, formerly of Osceola, died Thursday at National Medical Center in Hot Springs.
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Didgeridoo lessons at library
(Community News ~ 07/21/14)
Riahan Alam entertained children at the Blytheville Public Library Friday with the high-energy Australia-themed program "Didgeridoo Down Under." The program brought together music, comedy and science along with character-building skills such as tolerance, kindness and anti-bullying. Following the program, Alam did a special Aussie Funk Jam session where kids got to learn to play the didgeridoo...
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Ward meeting set for Saturday morning
(Local News ~ 07/21/14)
The city of Blytheville's quarterly ward meeting will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Mississippi County Library in Blytheville, located at the corner of Fifth and Chickasawba streets.
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County's Section 8 office could be shut down
(Local News ~ 07/21/14)
Management for the Mississippi County Housing Assistance Program may soon be turned over to a Paragould office after claims of mismanaged funds.
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Kids Day to return for 27th year
(Local News ~ 07/21/14)
The 27th Annual Kids Day Back to School Youth Program will be held from 1- 5 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 2 at Williams Park. All area children are invited to come and join in the festivities.
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Act 2! spinning 'Charlotte's Web' at Ritz
(Local News ~ 07/21/14)
The Act 2! community theater group recently announced the cast for its production of E.B. White's "Charlotte's Web," adapted by Joseph Robinette. This will be the sixth annual children's production under the direction Candie Groves and JD Harris.
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