Stories from Saturday, March 25, 2017

Dr. Matthew Jones of Blytheville, Arkansas was named the Young Optometrist of the South by the Southern Council of Optometry (SECO) on March 4, 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia. This SECO award recognizes an optometrist in practice for less than 10 years, but who has already made a significant impact in the field of optometry...

"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands," Douglas Adams in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. The problem is, Republican ducks and Democrat ducks all waddle and they all quack. ...

Thursday afternoon the Arkansas Northeastern College Board of Trustees met in special session to approve a contract with Construction Network Incorporated out of Jonesboro for the construction of ANC’s new Center for Allied Technologies. ANC President Dr. James Shemwell told the board that ANC has worked with CNI before on other projects such as the Angela Wren Nursing Allied Health Center, the Briggs/ Sebaugh Wellness Center and The Sun Room...

The mobile office of Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge will be in Blytheville on Thursday, April 6 from 10:30 a.m. until noon at the Mississippi County Senior Citizens Center located at 1101 David Lane. From 10:30 a.m. until 11 a.m., seniors and older adults can learn about common scams that target them, along with ways to spot and prevent identity theft. ...