Stories from Wednesday, December 12, 2018

The holiday season was in full swing Monday afternoon at the county Finance Committee meeting as Justice JoAnne Henton passed out gifts and the justices in attendance said “Merry Christmas” to one another. Henton said, “ Being a justice on the Quorum Court for the past two-years has really been a very learning experience and most definitely I’ve enjoyed it and it’s been a rewarding experience and I most definitely look forward to serving the next two years with all you handsome men… I have something for you and I appreciate everything that everyone did for me during my fall.”. ...

ARMOREL— The Armorel School Board held their monthly meeting Monday night and heard from the Armorel Elementary Quiz Bowl team. Armorel Superintendent Jennifer Barbaree opened by saying, “I invited Mrs. [Debra] Harms and our Elementary Quiz Bowl team. ...

On Monday members of the Blytheville City Council held five of their six monthly committee meetings. Parks and Recreation and Animal Control were initially scheduled to meet last Thursday; however, they were rescheduled due to the Blytheville Christmas parade...

City of Blytheville ewer director Garry Carr reported to the Airport and Utilities Committee on Monday and during his report PMI engineer Brad Wingfield presented a plan to present to ADEQ for the city’s water treatment plants. These plans involve the combination of two of the city’s three plants, the south and west plant, and an update of the city’s north treatment plant...

The KIPP Blytheville Thunder program is still young with only playing high school games for three years and beginning to practice in the 2012-2013 school year. The first year head coach for the Thunder, L.D. Anderson, is a native of Blytheville and served in the U.S. Army. Anderson’s goals for the team are to teach players life skills...

Most of us that take the newspaper remember benchmark days of our lives back to 911. Then our memory jumps to assassination of Martin Luther King as well as the assassination of JFK - then to Pearl Harbor happening 77 years ago. I tell students when I go to schools, all history is relevant...

Roy Lee Burroughs, better known as Cotton, of Manila, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018, in Jonesboro. Cotton was born Sept. 19, 1928, in Damascus to Jim Ed and Nancy May Burroughs. Cotton retired at age 83 from commercial fishing, a profession he truly loved, and had done for most of his adult life. ...