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Amended public nuisance measure passes
Local Comments Updated: May 20, 2013 10:42pmA proposed ordinance providing a penalty for failure to abate a property declared by the city as a public nuisance was approved in a split vote Monday night after being amended by the Pine Bluff...
Council OKs revamped parks commission
Local Comments Updated: May 20, 2013 10:43pmThe Pine Bluff Parks and Recreation Commission was expanded from five to nine members in a unanimous decision by the city council Monday night.
The realignment ordinance was introduced at...
Formal charges filed in March shooting death
Local Comments Updated: May 20, 2013 8:39pmFormal charges have been filed against a teenager in the March shooting death of a 21-year-old man.
Prosecuting Attorney S. Kyle Hunter charged Curtis Ladd Jr., 16, as an adult with first-...
Severe weather possible in SE Arkansas
Local Comments Updated: May 20, 2013 8:41pmThere is a slight risk of severe weather Tuesday in Southeast Arkansas as a storm system that has rocked Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas continues to grow and move to the east and northeast.
The...
New charter school remains on track despite obstacles
Local Comments Updated: May 20, 2013 8:01pmQuest Middle School of Pine Bluff remains on schedule to welcome several hundred fifth- through eighth-graders through its doors as an open enrollment charter school this August thanks to the...
Gould city attorney asks judge to dismiss Barley-Gibson lawsuit
Local Comments Updated: May 20, 2013 5:21pmGould City Attorney Gene E. McKissic is asking a circuit court judge to dismiss a lawsuit from former Gould Recorder-Treasurer Pamela Barley-Gibson that seeks back pay as well as compensatory and...
Council facing lengthy Monday night agenda
Local Comments Updated: May 18, 2013 6:38pmThe Pine Bluff City Council faces a lengthy agenda at its Monday night meeting, scheduled for 5:30 p.m. in the civic center’s council chambers.
Twelve ordinances and nine resolutions will be...
PBHS Graduation
Local Comments Updated: May 17, 2013 8:33pmPine Bluff High School Principal Michael Nellums speaks during Pine Bluff High School graduation Friday at the Pine Bluff Convention Center. (Special to the Commercial/William Harvey)
EASY RIDER River traveler en route to Gulf in homemade raft
Local Comments Updated: May 17, 2013 10:44pm“The river is within us. The sea is all about us.”
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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...Mays proposes 3 percent ‘privilege fee’ for non-resident city employees
Local Comments Updated: May 17, 2013 7:20pmAlderman Steven Mays, who is sponsoring proposed legislation calling for the “grandfathering “ of current Pine Bluff department heads on a new requirement that they reside within 12 miles of the...