Stories from Friday, December 23, 2016

A month after raising customer rates to generate funds for improved quality and delivery of water to residents, the city this week took the next step toward that end. The Blytheville City Council approved a resolution authorizing the issue of bonds to inject funds into the water project during its regular meeting Tuesday at City Hall. ...

The Northeast Arkansas Chapter of the American Red Cross officially opened its new Blytheville office on Tuesday with a holiday open house. The office is located at 507 N. 5th Street, in the Mississippi County Courthouse Annex next to the county election center. The event also celebrated 100 years of Red Cross service in Mississippi County, 1917-2017...

"The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread," B.F. Skinner wrote in his Utopian novel, Walden Two. Mobs bully and attack based solely on passion and emotion, but never on intellect. I once read a quote that said that the combined IQ of a mob is the square root of the number in the mob. That's still not very smart. So, I am deciding to overcome the fear and tread on a very important topic that the citizens of this county need to address, fully aware of the probable consequences...

Blytheville residents have had a courthouse to see, visit, touch and do business in since around 1901. In fact there has been two over the years and the "three-and-a half story, cut-sandstone and brick structure designed in the colonial revival style" that we currently see at 200 West Walnut was built in 1919 by the Pine Bluff architectural firm of Selligman and Ellesvard...