Archive | August, 2009

Nonbinding in-laws at times hard to give up

Divorces are well-known for splitting families and causing hardships on children and other relatives.

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For those who aren’t street legal

Only 11 children out of thousands of children who operate mo-peds within the four-county Central Arkansas area protected by Arkansas State Police Troop A are doing so legally. Those words by the ASP’s highway safety office’s motorcycle coordinator Lloyd Vanover surprised most attending a recent City Council meeting. Troop A includes Pulaski, Saline, Faulkner and [...]

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Day center safety still a concern

The debate the last few weeks over approving a new day care center in the River Stone Shopping Center strip mall highlights a growing need in Maumelle — more day care facilities within the city.

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The question of teenagers and guns

Monday’s arrest of a Maumelle teenager for aggravated armed robbery highlights an all-too-common fact of life. Younger children are getting more and more involved with guns.

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Standing up for what’s right

While most of his counterparts wilted amid criticism from a few unhappy parents, Alderman Jamie Stell stood his ground Monday night at the City Council meeting in his efforts to make the streets of Maumelle safer for young children.

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COMMERCIAL EDITORIAL — LESSON LEARNED OVER KIPP SCHOOL — SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 2009

KIPP Delta Schools selected Blytheville over Pine Bluff and West Memphis as the first site for a KIPP school outside of Helena in the Arkansas Delta. No one likes coming in second or third when your choice is, well, being first.

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Obama controls his narrative

Barack Obama was born in a foreign nation as part of a genetic experiment, raised a Muslim and brainwashed by radicals. Think X-Men meets Malcolm X.

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DOLLARWAY FACES CAC IN RETURN TO WAR MEMORIAL STADIUM

LITTLE ROCK — For the past two years, the Dollarway Cardinals have finished their season at Little Rock’s War Memorial Stadium. The occasion for those season-ending games was the Class 4A State Championship game.

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MONTICELLO’S PASCHAL REVISITS OLD TEAM IN HOOTENS OPENER

Monticello coach Van Paschal knows perfectly well what he has gotten himself into.

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BULLDOGS, DRAGONS MEET HALF WAY

The Star City Bulldogs and DeWitt Dragons haven’t been invited to the postseason party in a while. Star City hasn’t been to the playoffs since 2004, and DeWitt has waited since 2000 for its next playoff berth.

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