Stories from Saturday, December 15, 2018

Beginning Jan. 1, 2019, the Blytheville Courier News and Manila Town Crier will merge to become the NEA Town Courier, according to Blytheville Courier News General Manager Mark Brasfield. “Blytheville Courier News subscribers will continue to receive all of the local news from ‘Blytheville’s No. ...

It isn't an easy choice to commit one's self to public service, but it is something that a society desperately needs people to do. For Blytheville City Councilman L.C. Hartsfield, running for office was never something that he saw himself doing even when he began regularly attending meetings a few years before his decision to run. ...

The Blytheville City Council’s Finance committee met on Thursday for their last meeting of 2018. Mississippi County Quorum Court Justice of the Peace Neil Burge attended the meeting to give a presentation to the committee concerning the QC's plan to hold a special election in February to present a vote that would repurpose the half-cent sales tax utilized by the Mississippi County Hospital System to fund the renovation of the Blytheville courthouse and, on a much smaller level, the Osceola courthouse. ...