Stories from Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Who owns Mississippi County? Thousands of people have a piece of it, and they are listed in the new plat book published by the Mississippi County Conservation District with Mapping Solutions. New this year are aerial view maps opposite the landownership map pages. ...

Recent reports from the Blytheville Police Department:

Mr. James "J.W" Stout, 79, of Blytheville, passed from this life Tuesday, April 16, 2013, at his home.

Mr. Bobby Gene Blagg, 62, of Wilson, died of heart failure Monday, April 15, 2013, at South Mississippi County Medical Center in Osceola.

I did not feel well enough to attend the last Gosnell City Council meeting, since I am on oxygen to assist my breathing. After reading the newspaper article on the council meeting, it was just as well I did not attend since it was noted the council voted to not let the visitors speak...

Congratulations to the county for having a fair and honest auction of used and some may say JUNK county property! Approximately $76,000 was raised. An ad was put in the paper, which pulled in people from all over to bid on this property, and some of it was listed as scrap, yet $76,000 was raised...

Among the conversations you tend to hear over and over in the Blytheville area these days is on the notion of retail growth. In simplest terms, folks want to have more places to shop and more places to eat.

Blytheville City Councilman R.L. Jones made a public Freedom of Information Act request for 14 items during Tuesday night's Council meeting in the Blytheville District Courtroom.

The annual community cleanup sponsored by the Greater Blytheville Area Chamber of Commerce will be held from 8-11 a.m. Saturday.

Arkansas legislators completed their first use of Amendment 82 Tuesday morning, with the passing of the appropriation bill to provide financing and tax breaks to Big River Steel.

Nucor-Yamato Steel is one step closer to a $115 million expansion that would allow it to reportedly become just the second producer of widest sheet piling in North America.

Tuesday night, the Blytheville City Council gave an Arkansas Municipal League attorney the green light to make a counter-proposal to the county regarding the 2011-12 jail fees debt that is currently in litigation.

ARMOREL --The Armorel Tigers outscored the Black Rock Zebras, 39-0, over two games Tuesday night in 1A-3 East action at Armorel. Armorel won game one of the conference doubleheader, 18-0, and game two, 21-0. Armorel scored nine in the first inning and three runs in each of the second, third and fourth innings to win game one...

Youth baseball continued Tuesday night at the Blytheville Youth Sportsplex with some teams making their season debut. Here's a look at some of the action. ROOKIE LEAGUE Davis Lawn Care 6, Me and My Sister 2 Davis Lawn Care scored three in the first and three in the fourth and held on to beat Me and My Sister, 6-2, Tuesday night in Rookie League action...