Stories from Saturday, December 29, 2018

As we here at the office sit around compiling our last edition of the Blytheville Courier News and the first edition of the NEA Town Courier, it has given me an opportunity to look back at this past year and reflect on its events. It has certainly been an eventful year for better or worse. We’ve seen new opportunities and reasons to believe in the future like Nucor’s expansion and Arkansas Northeastern College’s new Center for Allied Technology...

Blytheville Police Assistant Chief Ricky Jefferson said that the Blytheville Police Department will be bringing in extra shifts on New Year's Eve and will be strictly enforcing the ban on celebratory gunfire within Blytheville city limits. Blytheville Ordinance 1622 sets the punishment for those convicted of "willfully and intentionally discharging any firearm within the corporate limits of the city of Blytheville at "no less than $500 and not exceeding $1,000 for each such offense."...

At this month’s Blytheville City Council meeting there were several items on the agenda. Of those important items was the adoption of the 2019 budget. The budget was originally presented to the Blytheville Finance Committee in November where it was reviewed and adjusted for some slight errors that were made...

Police have recovered an ATM stolen from Gary's Food Mart in Memphis and arrested two suspects in the case. According to Blytheville Police Department Lt. John Frazier, Blytheville detectives received a call form Memphis authorities on Friday advising they had recovered the ATM...