Stories from Saturday, June 22, 2019

Among the topics discussed at the Tuesday, June 18, Caraway Council meeting were garbage pickup fees and jail fees. The council tabled an increase request by Deadman's Sanitation at the May 9 meeting giving Mayor Bo James time to look into trash pick up options. The current contract has been in effect since 2012...

Manila School Board filled the agri teacher position at a special called meeting Wednesday, June 19. The meeting was called to order by President Jeremy Jackson with a quorum declared. Following a short executive meeting to discuss hiring, Superintendent Jason Evers recommended hiring Luke McLaughlin as agri teacher for the 2019-2020 school year...

Lake City City Council approved ordinances and truck purchase during the Monday evening meeting. Gene Turner, Lake City citizen, expressed his concern of cars speeding down city streets. He was sharing ideas to help resolve this issue. He did say that the police officers do a good job, but feels like everyone needs to work together to help come up with a solution...

Blytheville Mayor James Sanders anticipates work to begin on the new justice center in about eight weeks. On Tuesday night, Mayor Sanders told the Blytheville City Council that he and city CFO John Callens recently went over the numbers with architects...

The Blytheville City Council approved the issuance of up to $400 million industrial revenue bonds for Nucor-Yamato Steel on Tuesday night. The council suspended the rules and read the ordinance all three times by title only before voting 5-0 to approve the measure...

Tuesday afternoon, city of Blytheville leaders, State Representative Monte Hodges (D-Blytheville), Mississippi County Judge John Alan Nelson and several pastors and community leaders gathered at the new Allied Center for Technologies conference room at Arkansas Northeastern College to brainstorm for a Blytheville Youth Development Training Center...

BIC Superintendent Gaylon Taylor signed an agreement with Stone Creek Solar, of Jonesboro, during the Thursday board meeting for the school to build a 766-kilowatt solar power plant south of the High School in Monette, which is expected to offset 95 percent of the electricity demand for the entire school system...