Stories from Saturday, February 17, 2018

Thursday, Blytheville Chickasaws senior lineman Larry Clark signed his National Letter of Intent with a Division II school, the Arkansas Tech Wonderboys (AT) of Russellville. The signing recognition was an emotional time for both Clark and head coach Ben Fisher who have been close over the years...

GOSNELL — Gosnell Mayor Don Marshall delivered his State of the City address during the February council meeting. Marshall started his address by discussing some of the events of 2017. He also thanked the departments within the city as well as the city council. Marshall also mentioned some of the hardships the city saw such as landfill rates going up again. He stated that looking ahead he believes that good things are coming to Gosnell in 2018...

Kaitlyne Reeves and Elizabeth Emmert are Blytheville’s two new Animal Control officers. Reeves has been at the department for four months while Emmert has only been there for one week. As new officers Reeves and Emmert have two main goals for the department: get the stray animals off of the city streets and get more animals adopted into good homes...

Tate General Contractors and Nabholz Construction met with the Blytheville City Council's Police and Fire committee Thursday night, completing the final interviews for the position of construction manager for the new Blytheville Justice Complex. Both contractors provided information on why they believe they are the best contractors for the job. ...

Let's start this column with a little disclaimer. This is not going to be a piece about gun control. We have all seen where that argument goes time and time again and I don't feel like writing about something that is just going to irritate most of our readers. I am also not capitalizing on this recent tragedy in Florida. While some believe that discussion on prevention should be halted until "an appropriate amount of time has passed," I don't subscribe to that belief...

Tuesday morning, Sheriff Dale Cook said the Mississippi County Sheriff’s Department, along with several other agencies, continues to search for the autistic teen that went missing early Saturday morning.