Stories from Wednesday, April 28, 2021

A public hearing was held Monday, April 19, prior to the regular Lake City city council meeting, to discuss Ordinance 311-21, an ordinance increasing sewer rates. Newly-elected mayor Cameron Tate presided with council members Brenda Hutcheson, Kate Wells, Tommy Eakins, Harmony Cash and Danny Dunigan and city clerk Lisa Stiz present...

Mississippi County Quorum Court Insurance Committee and Planning and Development Committee members met Friday afternoon. Insurance Committee Chair Aaron Fleeman presided over the first meeting introducing Tom Kane and Claire Rhodes with Stephens Insurance, LLC...

During a 2 ½ hour meeting Monday night, which ended at midnight, the Blytheville School Board asked to be involved in how to spend the $17 million of ESSER funds, money from the three federal stimulus packages. The board tabled an additional pay plan proposal from Blytheville superintendent Bobby Ashley that would pay all staff members an additional $15 per day they worked for going above and beyond in the pandemic...

Monday night, the Blytheville School District directed the administration to conduct a full investigation of the girls athletic program and to report the results, after Blytheville assistant girls basketball coach Melissa Young alleged Blytheville High School head girls coach Greg Wilson created a “hostile and demeaning” work environment and accused the district of gender inequities...

Joe Sterlen Cagle, 84, former longtime Leachville resident, passed from this life Sunday, April 25, 2021, at Ashton Place Health and Rehabilitation in Barling. Born at home in Leachville, he was the son of the late Claude Earl and Nancy Layton Cagle, was a 1956 graduate of Crowley's Ridge Academy and had attended Crowley's Ridge College in Paragould. ...

Nina Lou Goff, 71, of Sweeny Texas, former Manila resident, passed from this life Tuesday, April 27, 2021, at her home. Born in Rector, she was the daughter of the late David Ernest and Louise Edmond Vandivor. Before moving to St. Louis as a teenager, she attended Manila High School. ...