Stories from Saturday, July 21, 2018

The Blytheville City Council has been asked to consider taking some of the city’s money from the general fund, water department and sewer department and putting it into a six-month CD for protection against cyber crime. Blytheville Mayor James Sanders said that across the country several cities are running into an issue of having their funds digitally attacked, leaving a city’s bank account drained...

The Blytheville Baseball Facilities Board met Wednesday to hear claims that the Blytheville Baseball Softball Boosters organization is not complying with its contract with the city of Blytheville. BBSB president Jonathan Howard told the Facilities Board that he didn’t have financials to present but he was in contact with city attorney Chris Brown and BBSB attorneys. ...

I don’t often find myself wanting to talk about the same thing from one week to another, but I can’t seem to walk away just yet from this library situation. The building’s current state and potential future of closing is 100 percent the fault of the Mississippi County Library System. That being said it isn’t the fault of any one person within that group; however, group failure is no better than singular failure, in my opinion, it is worse...