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Manila reviews branding designs
(Local News ~ 07/21/21)
Manila City Council reviewed the designs for the city’s branding project being created by Thrive at the July 19 meeting. Manila Mayor Wayne Wagner introduced Ray Benson and Donna Jackson with Moving Manila Forward. Benson and Jackson have been working with Thrive...
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NEA mayors meet at ANC
(Local News ~ 07/21/21)
Several Northeast Arkansas mayors met with Mark Goodman of the East Arkansas Planning Commission July 14 at Arkansas Northeastern College. The community resilience specialist gave a presentation examining how each town can maximize their economic potential and the benefits they all bring to one another...
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County finance board gets update
(Local News ~ 07/21/21)
Justice Molly Jackson chaired the Mississippi County Finance committee meeting Monday, July 19, in the absence of Chairman Michael White. Other committee members present were Harbans Mangat, Neil Burge and Aaron Fleeman. Also attending were Justices Betty Hepler, Cecil McDonald, Tobye McClanahan, and Rick Ash, along with County Judge John Alan Nelson and other county officials...
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Chitwood touts success of economic dev. tax
(Local News ~ 07/21/21)
Clif Chitwood has served as leader of the Mississippi County Economic Development Commission for over 20 years and has seen positive results from the economic one-half cent sales tax that originally passed in 2002. The one-half cent sales tax was renewed in 2011, extending the tax from 2013 to 2023...
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Erma Jane DePriest
(Obituary ~ 07/21/21)
Erma Jane DePriest, 77, of Steele, Mo., passed away Sunday, July 18, 2021, at Flo and Phil Jones Hospice House in Jonesboro. Erma was born in Steele to Frank and Fannie Mae Littlejohn DePriest. She was a retired teacher and counselor for South Pemiscot High School and was a member of First United Methodist Church in Blytheville. Erma enjoyed her monthly book club and her every Friday night dinners with friends. She loved her family, friends and all of her former students...
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Bettye Lou Davis
(Obituary ~ 07/21/21)
Bettye Lou Davis, 86, of Manila, passed from this life Monday, July 19, 2021, at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro. Born in Brownsville, Tenn., she was the daughter of the late Harvey and Nellie Spitzer Helton and the widow of Dewey Davis. She had been a Manila resident since 1947 and had attended Manila Public Schools. ...
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