Local artists in Delta Exhibition

Two Cabot women and one from NLR included in state’s top gallery show.

The Arkansas Arts Center’s 62nd annual Delta Exhibition will be held only online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There will not be any in-person gallery showings. It is now part of the new digital engagement initiative “Arkansas Arts Center Amplified’ through which the center is offering art-related experiences and exhibits online such as the Young Arkansas Artists exhibition. The show […]

Police Reports – May 6. 2020

North Little Rock • Police officers found Keshawn Cameron, 24, dead after responding to reports of weapons fired at 2300 Pike Ave. around 2 p.m. Saturday.   Officers called MEMs and medics provided medical treatment, but Cameron was pronounced dead, said assistant Public Information Officer Joe Green. Detectives are asking for help with this investigation and anyone with information, can […]

Beebe to pay IRS for error

City clerk miscalculates withholdings in assistant’s check; city covers the bill.

The Beebe City Council last week approved paying federal taxes that were not taken out of two employees’ paycheck due to clerical errors by human resources director Kim Weeks. The city will pay $1,100 to the IRS for taxes not taken out of deputy court clerk Ginger Williams’ paychecks. Weeks was not at the council meeting. “I recently filed my […]

Schools make do with what’s left

Most districts prepare to finish up with AMI, PCSSD staying online.

With just a few weeks of school left, area districts are making plans for the end of the school year, deciding on how to honor seniors and are hoping schools can start in-class instruction in August, but the state has not offered any guidance that far in advance. Jacksonville The last day of school in the Jacksonville-North Pulaski School District […]

McGee is made interim NLRSD superintendent

School board appoints temporary replacement for Acklin, who was fired.

The North Little Rock School Board unanimously voted Monday to make Assistant Superintendent Dr. Keith McGee the interim superintendent after Bobby Acklin was fired from the top job last month. McGee’s duties start immediately. When McGee first came to the district, he was hired as executive director of secondary curriculum assessment and accountability in September 2019, said Dustin Barnes, the […]

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Helping others standing in line

Jacksonville woman returns to provide snacks and drinks to the unemployed waiting to file for help.

A Jacksonville woman who waited in line for hours in March at the Division of Workforce Services office in Jacksonville to apply for unemployment benefits has returned to the same line to give away snacks and drinks to hundreds of unemployed people who have stood in the same line after her. Dozens of people have lined up there every day […]

Chickens might remain

The Cabot City Council may allow backyard poultry to be kept permanently.

Cabot City Council members are working on amending city code to allow residents to raise backyard chickens for eggs and meat indefinitely. Last month the council approved extending Mayor Ken Kincade’s executive order during the COVID-19 crisis emergency to temporarily suspend the city’s chicken ordinance until Aug. 31. It required residents to have an acre or more of land to […]

Chemical plant makes sanitizer

Company will donate products to hospitals to help fight COVID-19.

A British-owned chemical giant with a plant in Jacksonville is converting much of its manufacturing capacity worldwide and using its raw materials to produce thousands of gallons of hand sanitizers and donating them to hospitals in the battle against COVID-19. Ineos Composites, a Jacksonville chemical plant at 1901 Redmond Road that’s part of a global chemical empire, has started producing […]

Emergency extended

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Arkansas is one of 15 states reporting under 100 new coronavirus cases a day. In recent days, our state has averaged around 50 new cases with only 38 new cases announced Tuesday. Although Arkansas is slowly reopening its economy, state officials are cautioning that if the number of coronavirus cases start spiking in May, they would recommend closing businesses and […]