Bob Kendrick of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City will discuss the history of Arkansas’ black baseball teams, the national leagues, and their contributions to society and the civil rights movement at the Butler Center’s Legacies and Lunch, Monday at noon in Little Rock.

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If you are a member of a non-profit or civic organization and you want some federal stimulus money to help both your cause and the 2010 Census, you better hurry up.

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Four Sherwood boys — ages 15 to 17 — were arrested by city police officers at 1:48 a.m. on Wednesday, July 22, after police were dispatched to the area of Stafford Drive in reference to four people going through parked cars there.

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The city of Sherwood is sponsoring its own National Night Out event for Tuesday, Aug. 4, from 6 to 9 p.m. at Sherwood Forest.

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In a struggling economy, many Sherwood families are finding it difficult to get money to prepare for the fast-approaching new school year.

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While the city of Sherwood continues to assess the hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage caused from the June 30 hailstorm which seemed to strike no other city, the city’s code enforcement officer is warning city homeowners to make sure they aren’t taken advantage of by unscrupulous roofers.

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The Sherwood City Council Monday night took no action from Pennwood Drive residents who urged aldermen to bring something to Sherwood that currently doesn’t exist — speed bumps to slow down traffic.

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Every dog has its day, so goes the old saying. Now Sherwood’s K-9 unit dogs are having their day thanks to the generosity of concerned businesses, organizations, and people who have donated funds so they could have protective vests.

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As part of our ongoing project to develop and maintain authoritative lists (or, more specifically, what will eventually be authoritative lists) of 2010 political races in Arkansas, here’s a quick one I slapped together on statewide constitutional offices. Feel free to drop a note in the comments to correct or fill out this list. And be [...]

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Tom Schaller, writing on Nate Silver’s fivethirtyeight.com, finds deeper meaning in the coming retirement of U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning, the less-than-zero Republican from Kentucky. I liked the sound of it so much, I thought I’d repeat some of it. What I am saying is that in so many ways, Bunning’s political career and pending retirement is [...]

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