Stories from Saturday, April 4, 2020

Manila Mayor Wayne Wagner met with city council members, city clerk, city treasurer and an NEA Town Courier newspaper reporter on a conference call Thursday. Mayor Wagner updated city leaders on ways the city is conducting business in an effort to stay within the state recommendations during the Coronavirus pandemic...

BURDETTE— Thursday afternoon, the Mississippi County Quorum Court met under unusual circumstances due to the COVID-19 pandemic as they were originally supposed to meet last Tuesday in Osceola for their monthly March meeting. Nine justices were present for the meeting; Justice Fred Fleeman and Justice Slyvester Belcher were not present...

Monday evening, the Blytheville School Board had a discussion over which lawn care and spraying service bids to choose from and ultimately tabled the issue. Brandon Harper said the district opened the bids for those services on March 20, with four applying to spray, including Drew Bevill Lawn Care, C&C, Wierzba Lawn Care, and Prunty Weed Control...

GOSNELL — The Gosnell School Board met briefly Wednesday morning to approve a 2.5 percent bonus for employees and accepted the raise in minimum wage. The 2.5 percent bonus will cost the district approximately $199,000. Board member Lee Ketchum made the motion to give the licensed employees the 2.5 percent bonus, which was second by board member Doug Johnson...