Cable service in town, parked cars, the city’s financial condition and proposed raises for all elected officials generated some lively discussion at Monday night’s City Council meeting.
Cable service in town, parked cars, the city’s financial condition and proposed raises for all elected officials generated some lively discussion at Monday night’s City Council meeting.
The vice chairman of the Academics Plus Charter School board alleged Monday night to the Maumelle City Council that voting irregularities had occurred in conducting Academics Plus school board elections.
It’s the election that never ends. Not even the offer of free hot dogs for voters could get enough people in.
Traffic light up and running The new traffic light at the intersection of Maumelle Boulevard and Odom Boulevard South is now up and running. Weather delayed installation of a power supply connection for the new light, Mayor Mike Watson said.
Raymond A. Pritchett Jr. loved to tell the story that he was the sixth person to move to Maumelle. He was a CPA, political junkie and a former chairman of the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department Commission. Friends remembered him as a story teller.
Maumelle City Attorney JaNan Davis took the unusual step on Oct. 30 of writing a letter of caution to Maumelle resident Doug Bradberry, former owner of the Learning Tree Day Care Center. She told him the city was investigating several incidents regarding his “personal actions.”
A noted historian who recently returned from Afghanistan will lecture on the war on Thursday, Nov. 19 at the Jacksonville Museum of Military History. The doors open at 6 p.m. and the lecture begins at 6:30 p.m.
Although Arbor Day around the country is normally celebrated in the spring, the Maumelle Tree Board held its annual Arbor Day on Nov. 7 at Lake Willastein.
Employees of James Cone Construction Co. worked last weekend to try to play catch-up on putting the finishing touches to the new police and fire buildings under construction on Murphy Drive.
Maumelle Middle School’s cafeteria was packed on Nov. 3 for a meeting on naming the new Pulaski County Special School District high school under construction in Maumelle.
