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One-cent tax increase on Mayflower ballot
Mayflower residents now have an option to add another cent to the city's existing one-cent sales tax. |
Conway School District seeing better days financially
During the financial update portion of Thursday's meeting of the Conway School District's Board of Education, Dr. Greg Murry was happy to report nothing but good news. |
UCA tops notification list for music theft
Students on the University of Central Arkansas campus enjoy their music, but according to Liz Kennedy, spokeswoman for the Recording Industry Association of America, some are obtaining it illegally. |
Pastor Horton retires after 20 years at Antioch
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From a small country church to a big city congregation to a flock in Conway, Pastor Henry Horton has seen successes in the ministry he devoted himself to at the age of 19. Now, after more than 40 years in the ministry, Horton will retire upon his 20th anniversary as pastor of Antioch Baptist Church. |
Remembering loved ones at Conway Regional
Mother's Day can mean flowers, candy and a card. However, a more permanent remembrance is being suggested this year. |
O'Neill gets Vilonia students' 'attention'
VILONIA You possess something and are in complete control of something most everyone wants, said Craig O'Neill, sports director at Channel 11, addressing students at Vilonia Primary School during a program held Thursday. |
Yesterdays
Notice was received by military officials at Camp Pike from Maj. Gen. Johnson Hagood, commander of the Seventh Corps area, that the camp would serve as a base for the 12 civilian Conservation Corps camps to be established in Arkansas for forestry work. |
Police Beat
Among recent reports generated by local law enforcement agencies: |
New rules prompt Alltel Arena to discontinue shuttles
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, (AP) Alltel Arena says it will no longer offer Central Arkansas Transit Authority bus shuttles to its events. |
BeThere
n Sunday "AETN Doo Wop Celebration," tickets now available exclusively through the Arkansas Educational Television Network Foundation. |
Ark. court: Cancer claim against poultry firms can proceed
LITTLE ROCK (AP) Arkansas poultry producers dismissed two years ago from a lawsuit that seeks to hold them responsible for a man's leukemia are targets again of the legal action. |
Pryor wins agricultral award
Ginny Ann Pryor of Conway High School-West was recently presented the school's highest agricultural honor, the DEKALB Agricultural Accomplishment Award, sponsored by Monsanto Company. Pryor, the daughter of Bill and Sandy Pryor, received the award for excellence in academics, leadership and agricultural work experience. Pryor's experiences and accomplishments have included being an FFA member for four years, FFA president 2006-2008, FFA secretary 2005-2006 and receiving the Purple Circle Award. Randy Romeo is Pryor's agricultural education instructor. |
Court upholds law on road funds in three NW Ark. cities
LITTLE ROCK (AP) Benton County failed to prove that the state constitution was violated by a 1963 law ordering most of the road funds collected within Bentonville, Rogers and Siloam Springs to go toward those three cities, the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Thursday. |
Weekly study planned at First Methodist
A summer weekly book study at First United Methodist Church in Conway is being offered to help participants feel as if they have been "fed spiritually" every day around lunch time. |
Nurse charged with role in kickback ring
LITTLE ROCK (AP) A federal grand jury indicted a nurse on numerous charges accusing him of paying kickbacks so a nurse at Baptist Hospital Medical Center would buy goods from a medical-supply business, prosecutors said Thursday. |
Area residents inducted into honor society
Five Conway area residents have been inducted into the Beta Zeta Omega Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society for the spring 2008 semester at Pulaski Technical College. They are Emily Butler, Lindsey Hess and Jason Hunt, all of Conway; Amanda Minton of Mayflower; and Michelle Flakes of Menifee. An induction ceremony was held Saturday, May 5, on PTC's main campus in North Little Rock. Membership in Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society for two-year colleges, is by invitation only. |
Police: Victims' own photo helped cops nail robbery suspect
BENSALEM, Pa. (AP) Police say they had no trouble tracking down a robbery suspect, because the victims had taken his picture while chatting with him at a bar a short time before the theft. |
Conway High School students get their wish
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Conway High School-West teacher Margo Jevicky reads Dr. Suess' "O The Places You Will Go" to her seventh-period English class on Thursday. The students, all seniors, lounged on carpet mats while Jevicky read and after the story everyone had a treat. Jevicky wanted to give the students the nap time they had been asking for all school year. |
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