Stories from Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Gosnell Junior High School seventh grader Kyleigh Hinson raised money to purchase 600 cans of food to donate to the school’s food drive. The school is collecting items such as box stuffing, canned yams, macaroni and cheese, canned cranberry sauce, canned chicken broth, cooking oil, boxed powdered milk, cornbread mix, canned corn, canned green beans, canned peas, instant potatoes, marshmallows, and aluminum foil. ...

Caraway Mayor Bo James was pleased to announce the future opening of a grocery store in Caraway at the Oct. 8 city council meeting. The new owner of Faulkner Grocery in Arbyrd, Mo., Tracey Reinhart, will be expanding and opening a second grocery store in the former Roach’s Grocery building in Caraway...

The Blytheville City Council continued the discussion on the issue of illegal dumping around the city Monday in their monthly Code Enforcement Committee meeting. Assistant Police Chief Ricky Jefferson also noted that 238 code enforcement violation notices were sent out in the month of September. Blytheville Mayor James Sanders spoke about the different things being dumped around town...

In a year full of disappointing differences, a positive change of Blytheville and Gosnell matching up on the gridiron will take place Friday night at Haley Field. Both teams come into this contest following victories from last week over Dewitt and Trumann respectfully...

Blytheville police are investigating the death of a three-year-old who was shot. On Friday, at approximately 4 p.m., officers of the Blytheville responded to a 911 medical emergency call at the Chickasaw Courts Housing area on South Division in Blytheville...