Stories from Saturday, October 8, 2016

The Code Enforcement Committee sent three proposed ordinances to the Blytheville City Council, Thursday night. The first measure would set mowing fees between $165-660, with a $10 per day charge on fees not paid when the city mows a cited property. Grass can be no taller than 10 inches, per Ordinance 1626. The proposed ordinance says the city will give the property owner a seven-day notice and on the eight day will clean up the property...

A lot has changed in the past 100 years. In 1916 Woodrow Wilson was president, "Black Jack" Pershing took American troops into Mexico, during the Mexican Revolution, to capture Pancho Villa. The Chicago Cubs played their first game in what is now Wrigley Field and the British evacuated Gallipoli as the Ottoman Empire captured Istanbul (then known as Constantinople)...

The Greater Blytheville Area Chamber of Commerce welcomed the new Lovelace Plaza with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday. "Most of you here probably know Larry Lovelace," Farmers Bank and Trust president Randy Scott said during the ceremony. "I negotiated with him for several months until I talked him into selling us this property. ...