Stories from Wednesday, June 2, 2021

The Manila water-park/pool will open Friday, June 4, at 1 p.m. Due to Covid-19 the pool was closed last year. Mayor Wayne Wagner and the pool staff are pleased to announce its opening for the 2021 season. The pool will be opening with a new  4’ swimming pool area with water basketball and  a newly constructed concession stand that will serve the water-park and city park visitors...

Tobye McClanahan of Blytheville serves on the CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) board of directors and Christina Jankoviak is the advocate coordinator for Mississippi County and Greene County in the 2nd Judicial District.  CASA is a non-profit organization with the goal of ensuring abused and neglected children find safe, permanent and loving homes where they have the opportunity to thrive...

Mississippi and Poinsett counties saw population loss, while Craighead County gained population, according to early 2020 Census figures released recently by the US Census Bureau. Mississippi County’s population dipped from 46,651 in 2010 to 40,066 in 2020. In 1990, the county’s population was 57,525, and then it dropped to 51,979 in 2000...

LAKE CITY — Gina Knight and Martin Lilly—deputy prosecuting attorneys—prosecuted 37-year-old Marco Clark for 37-year-old Melinda Coburn’s Aug. 24, 2019 murder. Potential Craighead County jurors had been summoned and appeared. But before jury selection started, Clark pleaded guilty to capital murder, and Circuit Judge Dan Ritchey sentence Clark to a life sentence...