Stories from Wednesday, September 30, 2009

GOSNELL -- The deadline is fast approaching for entry into the Little Mr. and Miss Cotton Festival pageant, said Denise Ingram, this year's chairman. The pageant will be 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8 in the Gosnell High School Auditorium and will include age divisions for children up to age 5...

GOSNELL -- Members of the Gosnell School Board heard from school principals and administrators Monday evening for their Annual School Report. Assistant Superintendent Bonard Mace told the board that the past school year was successful and that continued success is anticipated for the current year...

The final of the six 2008 FEMA-funded sewer jobs is expected to be completed by the end of this week. For a little over a week, the city of Blytheville has been laying approximately 800 feet of sewer pipe, 11 feet into the ground, along an easement on Lockard Street. There will also be a manhole buried 3 feet in the ground...

The first stage of the Delta Gateway Museum is nearly complete, commissioner Claudine Payne told the Blytheville City Council's Parks and Recreation Committee Tuesday night. "We are very close to being finished with the first stage that we've been working on," Payne said of the Kress Building renovations. "We just have a few more things we have to do."...

A $125,000 bond was set Monday in Blytheville District Court for Roger Smith, 28, of Blytheville, who is charged with attempting to burn his wife with rubbing alcohol and a lighter, according to court documents. Smith was arrested at 5:30 a.m. Friday, when police were called to a residence at the 300 block of Pittman for a report of a domestic disturbance...