Archive | June, 2011

New detention facility gets green light to open

Applause marked the approval by the Quorum Court on Monday of an operating plan for the new county detention center. The deadlock on how to fund the operating costs was broken by a proposal by Sheriff Jim Roberson.

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Posted in Local News, Lonoke Democrat, NewsComments (0)

FEMA still assessing damages

There is an irony in flood damage occurring near possibly the highest point in Lonoke County. However, after six weeks of using a wheelbarrow to ferry groceries and other necessities across a makeshift footbridge, the humor escapes Wildwood residents Jill and Charles Walker.

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Posted in Cabot Star-Herald, Local News, NewsComments (0)

New detention facility gets green light to open

Applause marked the approval by the Quorum Court on Monday of an operating plan for the new county detention center. The deadlock on how to fund the operating costs was broken by a proposal by Sheriff Jim Roberson.

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Posted in Cabot Star-Herald, Local News, NewsComments (0)

Six still hospitalized from Tyson accident

Six still hospitalized from Tyson accident

LITTLE ROCK — Six people remain hospitalized following an accident caused chlorine gas to fill a Tyson Foods plant in Northwest Arkansas.

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Commentary: Taylor Ready To Box

LITTLE ROCK

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Posted in Ft. Smith, Southwest Times Record, SportsComments (0)

Former Hog Peterson Picks Florida State

FAYETTEVILLE — Former Arkansas guard Jeff Peterson is transferring to Florida State.

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Posted in Ft. Smith, Southwest Times Record, SportsComments (0)

PCSSD board, superintendent missing the point

They just don’t get it The response of the Pulaski County Special School District trustees to the district being placed in fiscal distress is indicative of how it got there in the first place — extravagant spending, lack of financial control and being out of touch with reality.

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White flight by educators

Last week, 32 Pulaski County Special School District teachers and administrators walked out of diversity training. One of their chief complaints as voiced by board member Gloria Lawrence was that the facilitator made them feel uncomfortable and used the term “white,” which they found objectionable.

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Pulaski County school board has ethical woes

During last week’s emergency meeting of the Pulaski County Special School District board, new board member Tom Stuthard of Jacksonville moved to go into executive session because he said he had some things he wanted to say to board members in private and not “out here for everyone to hear.”

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Players new, but ethical issues still dog PCSSD

The new version of the Pulaski County Special School District board is changed, but not necessarily for the better.

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