Stories from Friday, June 11, 2010

MANILA -- News that Manila School District's new elementary school project may not be completed until September was not taken lightly by the Manila School Board at its regular meeting Thursday. Adam Seiter, senior project manager for NABHOLZ Construction Service out of Jonesboro, gave Manila School Board members two handouts outlining the progress of the new Justin Veach Elementary School and Manila School District cafeteria expansion project. ...

"What a fantastic year!" -- Relay chairwoman Linda Peterson

The 55 children in the Blytheville Public Library's Thursday Arts and Craft hour sat under a reading tent to listen to instructor Alison Milligan, of the Mississippi County Library System, read "Rainbow Fish Finds Its Way." After the story the children made their own fish magnets to take home...

Tilapia, paddles, drainage among possible solutions