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Leachville Council works through lengthy agenda
(Local News ~ 07/24/18)
Leachville Council approved purchase of safety equipment for the police department, set working meeting dates, passed an ordinance, set a public meeting date to discuss sewer expansion, heard report on jail fees, discussed tree cleanup and welcomed representatives from Arkansas Northeastern College at the council meeting Monday, July 16...
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Rickey Copeland receives KAIT8 GR8 Acts of Kindness award
(Local News ~ 07/24/18)
Rickey Copeland of Monette quietly goes about serving his church and his community. He served his country in the U.S. Air Force and is a Vietnam veteran. He served as a school teacher at Buffalo Island Central for 30 years encouraging his students to do their best. He is retired and that gives him more time to continue to serve. He is a regular volunteer at Monette Manor and volunteers at church where he is needed...
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Artists at work
(Local News ~ 07/24/18)
Candice Dunigan and Brooke Aguilar have combined their talents to create a mural on the wall of the future Black Oak Museum. Plans for a museum have been in the works for several months and thanks to a $15,000 grant from the Arkansas Rural Services work has begun...
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Mary Virginia Hutson
(Obituary ~ 07/24/18)
Mary Virginia Hutson, 75, of Blytheville, passed away Thursday, July 19, 2018 at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro. Mary was born in Manila to Thomas and Maudie (Moser) Bradford. She was a homemaker and a member of New Life United Pentecostal Church. Mary loved animals, especially her dogs. She enjoyed farm life and all of her animals she had on her farm. Mary was a wonderful and dedicated wife and mother...
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Hollis "Harold" Hamilton
(Obituary ~ 07/24/18)
Hollis "Harold" Hamilton, 81, of Leachville, passed from this life Monday, July 23, 2018, at his home. Born near Paragould he was the son of the late William "Bill" and Ethel Fisher Hamilton and had been raised in Northeast Arkansas. He later moved to Chicago where he worked as a heavy equipment operator and the owner/operator of H&H Plumbing Company. After his retirement he moved to Leachville 12 years ago. ...
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Eula Ciggs
(Obituary ~ 07/24/18)
Eula Ciggs was born June 24, 1936 in Clarkedale, Arkansas to the parentage of Henry Lee Davenport and Amanda Hister. She was saved in her early twenties under the leadership of the late Princeton A. Adams at the Coleman Church of God in Christ. She became a member of Faith Temple C.O.G.I.C. under the leadership of Pastor Henry Davenport Jr. where she served as Sunday school teacher, secretary, and district YWCC...
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Ethel Jean (Wyatt) Elledge
(Obituary ~ 07/24/18)
Ethel Jean (Wyatt) Elledge, 75, of Springfield, Illinois, died Saturday, July 21, 2018, at Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, following a lengthy battle with bile duct cancer. She had survived breast cancer in 2007. She was born January 9, 1943, in Blytheville, the daughter of William H. and Mary Grace Wyatt. She was valedictorian of the 1961 graduating class at Blytheville High School and a 1966 graduate of Arkansas State University. She was a retired high school math teacher...
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First Festival in the Park a success
(Local News ~ 07/24/18)
The first “Festival In The Park” was held this past Saturday in Walker Park, and it was successful by all accounts. The “Discover Blytheville” team led by Keith Michaels planned the festival and spread word of the event through the public with the help of various local businesses...
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Police investigating armed robbery at Furniture Gallery
(Local News ~ 07/24/18)
Blytheville police are investigating an armed robbery Tuesday afternoon at Furniture Gallery. Blytheville Police Chief Ross Thompson said there are no reported injuries. Details will be released as they become available.
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Manila board approves technology purchase
(Local News ~ 07/24/18)
Manila Superintendent Jason Evers presented a quote for technology purchase of $68,043.96 at the July 19 school board meeting. “This is something you have been working toward,” Superintendent Evers said. “This purchase will put one-to-one computers in the hands of students from K-12.”...
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