Stories from Wednesday, November 28, 2018

GOSNELL — During Monday night’s monthly meeting, the Gosnell School Board learned that the district is being upgraded with fiber-optic wiring. The board also met the new director of campus security Terry Hodges, who reported on plans of moving forward with security around the Gosnell School District...

At last Tuesday's Blytheville City Council meeting, Mayor James Sanders closed the meeting by reading the findings of the city's most recent legislative audit for 2017. According to the audit, which monitors the compliance of the offices of mayor, finance director, clerk/treasurer, district court clerk, police chief and advertising and promotion commissioner, only one office was noted to be in noncompliance with state law — the advertising and promotion commissioner, which is held by Don Houseworth.. ...

At Monday night's Blytheville School Board meeting, State Rep. Monte Hodges (D-Blytheville) and several students from Blytheville High School gave a presentation to the board about civil discourse training that they attended last month. Superintendent Bobby Ashley stated that he also attended the training and it was beneficial to the students. He welcomed Hodges and the students to present on it...

Early voting in the runoff election began Tuesday and continues until Monday. Election Day is Tuesday, Dec. 4. Early voting hours for today (Wednesday) through Friday are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Election Day voting will be from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. All votes will be processed, canvassed, and reviewed on Tuesday, Dec. ...