Stories from Thursday, December 10, 2015

Remember the good old days of radio -- when people had to use their imaginations -- when the mind was a stage? Those days are back again -- only better! The ACT 2! Community Theater Group will be presenting, "It's A Wonderful Life: The Radio Play" Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. each night, at The Ritz Civic Center in historic downtown Blytheville. Admission will be $10 for ages 12 to adult, $5 for ages 6 to 11 and as always, children 5 and under get in free...

The late New York Governor and democratic presidential candidate Mario Cuomo once said, "You campaign in poetry, but you govern in prose." Perhaps never has a quote been so truthful and accurate. We all know how ear-tickling poetry can be. It not only can make romantic girls swoon, but it can make gullible voters faint, blush and do things they normally wouldn't do. ...

The following is a letter written by City of Blytheville Finance Director John Callens to Mayor James Sanders and the Blytheville City Council. Dear Mayor and City Council, I want to address the misinformation that has been being written in the paper, and on social media, regarding the budget and its process by Councilman Abbott. ...

An armed man who had posted on Facebook that he was homicidal drove onto the Arkansas State University campus Thursday, sparking a lockdown before police took him into custody without any shots fired, university and police officials said.