Stories from Wednesday, December 5, 2018

KIPP Delta Public Schools announced the addition of three new grades to its schools in Blytheville Friday, completing its plans to bring a rigorous K-12 college-preparatory charter school option to families in Blytheville and throughout Mississippi County...

Within the last 10-15 years the Mississippi County Hospital System (MCHS) has been leased to three companies, including Baptist, Ameris and then most recently Quorum Health Resources (QHR). In March of 2009, Ameris was terminated and QHR was hired to stabilize the hospital system that had collapsed...

There has been a big issue brewing in Blytheville for the past two months, though the circumstances which caused it have been brewing for far longer, and it seems like it may finally be coming to a head in December. I’m talking about the establishment of a Ritz Commission to take over the maintenance and operation of the Ritz Civic Center, a city-owned facility. ...