Stories from Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Blytheville Fire Chief Ivory Diamond told the Blytheville Police and Fire Committee his department still has plans to build a $2 million fire station on the west end of town that will replace the Roy Head Fire Station. He said the city remains in the hunt for some grant funding that would help pay for the project, supplementing the 1/4-cent police and fire sales tax...

Farm Bureau sponsored Tuesday night's event

The latest production of the Act 2! community theater group will take the stage of the Ritz Theater this weekend for shows Friday and Saturday nights and Sunday afternoon. "Kitchen Witches" is about Isobel Lomax (played by Jeanette Sells) and Dolly Biddle (played by Carol Walls) who are two "mature" cable-access cooking show hostesses who have hated each other for quite a few years, ever since Larry Biddle dated one and married the other. ...

Adonis Hopper has announced her candidacy for Quorum Court Justice of the Peace, District 3. A Blytheville native, Hopper is a graduate of Blytheville High School and Mississippi County Community College (now Arkansas Northeastern College). "I am committed to improving Mississippi County," Hopper said. "If elected to this position, I will work hard with the other Quorum Court members to improve county road conditions and to help maintain our county hospitals."...

Tuesday night, Blytheville City Councilwoman Carol White told the Blytheville Police and Fire Committee she is being harassed by a Blytheville police officer and she thinks she needs "to go to the next step, which is the State Police." Declining to name the officer in the public setting, White told the committee she has filed three formal complaints against him. ...