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‘Blytheville Backs Our Blue’
(Local News ~ 04/22/17)
The Greater Blytheville Area Chamber of Commerce has initiated a community-wide campaign in support of local law enforcement. “Blytheville Backs Our Blue,” which will feature a variety of promotional display items, is created to strengthen the tie between police and community in Blytheville...
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ANC adds scholarship
(Local News ~ 04/22/17)
The Arkansas Northeastern College (ANC) Board of Trustees had a very long agenda Wednesday afternoon and unanimously approved every item, including scholarships, the creation of new programs, the purchase of both 11.7 acres for the new Center for Allied Technologies and also a new 24-passenger "Opportunity Bus."...
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Council approves revenue bonds
(Local News ~ 04/22/17)
The Blytheville City Council met Tuesday evening and passed ordinances authorizing revenue-refunding bonds to Nucor-Yamato and the other to change the zoning for the Robindale Apartments. They also passed three resolutions which included a resolution to demolish and remove condemned structures, a resolution to amend the 2017 budget and a resolution to appoint Gary Carr as the new permanent Wastewater Director...
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Chamber, Blytheville Unlimited supporting Public Safety tax
(Local News ~ 04/22/17)
The Greater Blytheville Area Chamber of Commerce and Blytheville Unlimited are lobbying voters to support the proposed Public Safety tax, to be voted on by Blytheville patrons on May 9. The two organizations penned a letter asking voters to support the tax...
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Public hearing held on proposed 1/2-cent tax
(Local News ~ 04/22/17)
Ward 2 councilmembers L.C. Hartsfield and Barbara Brothers hosted a public hearing Thursday evening in the District Courtroom before a small crowd of approximately 12 citizens. Also present were Mayor James Sanders, Councilman Stan Parks, Councilman R. ...
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It is never THAT bad…
(Editorial ~ 04/22/17)
Life is just so very fragile. It truly is here one minute and entirely and forever gone the next. The thing about death that shocks us, is that it isn’t always predictable – it just BAM! ... appears. I write this column today with an extremely heavy heart. I am purposely going to be vague in the details of what makes my heart bleed today, but there certainly is a message that has to be told. It is never THAT bad...
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Jessie L. Ashabranner
(Obituary ~ 04/22/17)
Jessie Larie Holder Ashabranner of Manila was born Nov. 11, 1927, at Walnut Ridge to the late Thelma Hazel Houston Holder and Monroe Franklin Holder. She went to be with her Lord on April 19, 2017, following her death at the NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jonesboro...
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