Ceremony Saturday will honor JHS grads

After a two month delay, Jacksonville’s class of 2020 will get to toss their caps.

The Jacksonville-North Pulaski School District will graduate about 240 seniors Saturday, the first graduating class from the new high school. Students will graduate in three shifts of about 80, alphabetically, and will be socially distanced and masked in the previously unused auditorium. Graduation was originally slated for May, but schools had been shut down in response to the virus by […]

Police Reports – July 29, 2020

Jacksonville • Kurtis Thomas, 35, was arrested on July 17 and charged with second-degree domestic battery. Police were called at 4:52 p.m. to 103 West Ave., for a physical domestic disturbance. Thomas said he pushed his sister and she hit her head. Officers spoke with the victim, who said Thomas slammed her head into the kitchen table. She said she […]

Part of Hwy. 107 salutes killed cyclist

After memorial was removed, city officials decided to rename a stretch for late John Mundell.

He was a newlywed and new to Sherwood, cycling throughout his new hometown to get to know it better when John Mundell, 59, was struck and dragged last July in a hit-and-run in a curve on Hwy. 107 near Miller’s Point. He died four days later with his new bride, Kimberly, at his side. A “ghost bike” that was erected […]

Road department given right-of-way

North Little Rock City Council gives go-ahead to I-30 and I-40 project.

In preparation for the upcoming widening of the I-30 and I-40 projects, the North Little Rock City Council voted unanimously Monday evening to grant temporary use of land near the Arkansas River to the state Department of Transportation. The property is located near the Dorothy Rodham Way and South Walnut and extends to the Arkansas River. The property was rezoned […]

Obituaries – July 29, 2020

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Kenneth Anderson Kenneth Ray Anderson went to be with his Lord and Savior on July 24 at Baptist Health Springhill at the age of 73 from complications of Alpha One. He was born on Oct. 4, 1946, in Batesville to Marjorie Gardner Anderson and Vernie Paul Anderson. Upon graduating from Newark High School, he enlisted in the Air Force. He […]

Young entrepreneurs mowing the distance

Two Cabot boys start lawn-care business that has 10 customers and plans to grow the company.

Two enterprising Cabot youngsters are working this summer to build their start-up lawn-care businesses for years to come. Matthew Bondurant, 12, and Skylar D’orr, 14, are neighbors who met in June when Bondurant’s family moved to a city subdivision from their country home. Matthew’s Mowing and Lawn Care has 10 customers on a mowing schedule and is looking for more […]

Cases double in one month in Arkansas

Infection rates soaring as officials seem content to stay on current path.

It took over four months for the number of COVID-19 cases in Arkansas to hit the 20,000 mark, but only a month to double to 40,000 cases — 4,918 new cases just since last Thursday. Some days the number of new cases exceeds 1,000 and has averaged about 600 new cases a day for a week or more. Monday, the […]

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Requests for absentee ballots increase

Pulaski County Clerk Terri Hollingsworth expects to distribute 20,000 absentee ballots for the Nov. 3 general election as many voters want to avoid polling sites due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Her office mailed about 8,000 absentee ballots during the last election. Hollingsworth said she has requested the state provide about $50,000 to help pay for printing and mailing the additional […]

Lacking plan to stop virus

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Our state reached a grim milestone with Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s announcement Tuesday that 40,181 Arkansans have tested positive since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. It’s taken just 30 days to double the positives from 20,091 on June 26 to yesterday’s figure. To put things in perspective, it took four months — from early March to the end of June […]