TOP STORY >> PCSSD kicks off $65M bond sale

By JOHN HOFHEIMER Leader senior staff writer On July 26, Jack Truemper, vice president of Stephens Inc. for public finance, will sell about $65 million worth of bonds authorized last month by Pulaski County Special School District patrons. The money will pay for a new Sylvan Hills High School and reconfigure that campus. The existing school, built for an enrollment […]

TOP STORY >> Base to get a new chief

Little Rock Air Force will welcome a new commander at 10 a.m. Tuesday with a ceremony at Herc Hall, where Col. Charles Brown will pass the guidon to Col. Gerald Donohue as commander of 19th Airlift Wing, the air base’s host wing. Donohue was most recently 86th Operations Group commander at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. The group also leads […]

TOP STORY >> World’s largest goldfish pond

By DEBORAH HORN Leader staff writer Danny Pool cups his hands as he submerges them into the cool water that’s churning with thousands of small golden fish. Suddenly there are about a half-dozen fish wiggling in his hands. One or two escape, jumping back into the water, then a third and fourth. Pool gently releases the remaining two back into […]