The use of fireworks during the Fourth of July is illegal in North Little Rock, Sherwood, and Jacksonville. However, Beebe and Lonoke allow fireworks. Individuals can buy fireworks within city limits from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. July 2-4. Residents may fire them off during the same time, except on the Fourth, shooting of fireworks can go until midnight. Jacksonville […]
Using fireworks is mostly illegal
Fireworks are banned in many local cities and counties so check first.Improving safety on Hwy. 107
Plans call for reducing accidents by revamping intersections and more.The Arkansas Department of Transportation has unveiled preliminary designs for im-proving Hwy. 107 from General Samuels Road in Jacksonville to Hwy. 89 in Cabot. Details and maps of the proposed project are available online at Hwy107.TransportationPlanRoom.com. The highway department is seeking public comments through July 12 to determine priorities and gauge public support. The highway department has not yet secured […]
Virus takes many lives at old-age home here
Jacksonville nursing home has 42 residents and 31 staff members with the disease and eight deaths as state reports highest daily cases in community at 669.Carrie Mashburn, the 106-year-old Woodland Hills Nursing Home resident died Tuesday of a COVID-19-related illness, the ninth such death at the facility. (See obituary below.) With the state Health Department declining to confirm cause of death under HIPPA regulations, it’s rare to put a name or face to a COVID-19 death. Mashburn’s death is one of 242 Covid-related deaths since […]
District plans to reopen Aug. 13
Jacksonville schools are looking at a blended fall curriculum during virus.As Arkansans are buffeted by Covid’s rampant increase in the state, Jacksonville-North Pulaski School Superintendent Bryan Duffie says the 2020-2021 school year will launch Aug. 13…probably. Following state Education Department guidelines, Duffie and the other administrators have developed an outline of what the new school year will look like, subject to changes by either the state education or health departments, […]