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More work lie ahead
(Local News ~ 02/02/09)
County Electrical Cooperative have continued to make progress throughout trying to get all of their customers back online in the wake of Tuesday's ice storm, but more work is definitely ahead. As of Saturday morning, approximately 12,500 Entergy customers in Mississippi County and East Craighead County were still without power, including between 5,000 and 6,000 in Blytheville...
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Criminals target local businesses curing outage
(Local News ~ 02/02/09)
Several businesses have been broken into as the result of the blackout conditions following the recent ice storm, according to Blytheville Police. At 4:20 a.m. Friday, police were working a commercial burglary at Family Dollar on East Main, when officers found that the Save-A-Lot Store next door had been burglarized as well. When the store manager arrived, it was discovered that the safe from Save-A-Lot had been taken. An undisclosed amount of money was inside the safe...
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Council OKs budget, Oaks to be closed
(Local News ~ 02/02/09)
Facing an $800,000 deficit for 2009 just last week, the Blytheville City Council passed a balanced budget Thursday night during a special meeting. The council had until Feb. 1 to pass the budget, which is $5,776 in the black. The projected revenue for 2009 is $14,343,408, while the anticipated expenditures tally $14,337,632...
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Extent of FEMA involvement unknown
(Local News ~ 02/02/09)
Rumors regarding assistance to Blytheville area residences from the Federal Emergency Management Agency are not true, according to David Lendennie, director of Mississippi County's Office of Emergency Management. Lendennie said Friday that he had not yet heard from either FEMA or the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management, and he doesn't know when they will be in town...
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2009 Blytheville budget
(Local News ~ 02/02/09)
2009 Blytheville budget Expenditures by department: Revenues The anticipated Thunder Bayou Golf Links revenue is $440,000...
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