Stories from Wednesday, June 7, 2017

During a special meeting on Monday, the Blytheville City Council adopted two ordinances and passed a resolution to amend the 2017 city budget, all with emergency clauses for immediate effect. The ordinances waived the bidding process and authorized the payments for a roof installation of the Regal Beloit/Magnetek Building and the purchase of a 2012 Caterpillar backhoe loader for the Public Works Department. ...

Mississippi County Judge Randy Carney confirmed to the CN Tuesday that he has suspended two employees of the county Road Department: Supervisor Tony Stone and his wife, Andrea Stone. “I have put some people on suspension but I have not terminated them at this point,” Carney said. “It started with Tony Stone, his wife Andrea. Right now that is all.”...

John Edward Criddle, age 58, of Leachville, passed from this life Sunday, June 4, 2017, at his home. Born in Isola, Miss., he was the son of the late James Lloyd Criddle and had been a Leachville resident since 1980. He had been employed by the former ACCO Chain and Cable Company, was a retired employee of the City of Leachville and was of the Baptist faith...

The City of Blytheville will be holding a public meeting concerning the repurposing of Thunder Bayou Golf Links, specifically discussing the result of the environmental analysis review. The Fisher Arnold engineering firm of Memphis prepared the “Environmental Assessment for the Repurposing of Thunder Bayou Golf Course” study on behalf of the City of Blytheville and the National Park Service...

Wednesday night, a jury found Kordarro Woodard guilty of first degree murder, after he set his girlfriend, Martha George, on fire on June 19, 2016. The jury sentenced Woodard to 15 years in the Arkansas Department of Corrections, and he has to serve a minimum of 70 percent of the sentence before being eligible for parole. He received credit for the 12 months he has served so far in prison...

Is the equation that simple? The more money that you have, the happier you will be or does the amount of money that one may possess even matter when it comes to happiness? I, for one, truly believe that lack of money creates an insurmountable amount of real stress in real life; however, I also feel that there is not an exact amount that is required for one to say, “I am happy.”...