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BPA’s Operation Skyhook lands in PB again

Updated: May 23, 2013 9:19pm

Pine Bluff’s Grider Field Municipal Airport is again hosting the Black Pilots of America’s annual Operation Skyhook Friday through Sunday.

The 17th annual Memorial Day weekend fly-in event...

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Westside Neighborhood Watch preparing for halfway house inmates

Updated: May 16, 2013 9:16pm

In the short time it has been in existence, the Westside Neighborhood Watch group has helped police recover a stolen car, arranged for a building covered with graffiti to be torn down, and now it’...

PB board votes to continue with school choice

Updated: May 16, 2013 8:56pm

The Pine Bluff School Board voted unanimously in a special called meeting Tuesday night for the district to continue participating in the Arkansas school choice program for the remainder of the...

Council to consider sagging garments, new police headquarters

Updated: May 16, 2013 8:42pm

The Pine Bluff City Council will be looking at waistlines at its Monday night meeting — not directly, but with a proposed ordinance.

A measure sponsored by Alderman Charles Boyd calls for “...

Report gives Arkansas ‘F’ for disclosure of political spending

Updated: May 16, 2013 8:20pm

LITTLE ROCK — A nonprofit watchdog group has given Arkansas an F grade for the level of disclosure it requires of outside groups that spend money on elections in the state.

In a report...

<p>Jefferson County Judge Dutch King speaks to first responders as they prepare for the Office of Emergency Management’s mock disaster exercise on Wednesday. (Special to the Commercial/William Harvey)</p>

Preparing for disasters focus of Wednesday training exercise

Updated: May 15, 2013 5:50pm

Flooding in the Island Harbor area and people who didn’t evacuate in time, people trapped inside a large retail store after a vehicle crashed into the building. and severe weather, all in the same...

UAPB chancellor makes case for tuition increase

Updated: May 15, 2013 7:36pm

University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff interim chancellor Calvin Johnson pleads the school’s case for a tuition increase Tuesday before the Fiscal Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees of the...

With millage passed, Watson Chapel prepares for construction

Updated: May 15, 2013 8:29pm

With a fresh mandate from the electorate of the Watson Chapel School District, who approved a 2.3 mill rate increase Tuesday, a timeline for the construction of a new classroom building for...

Jack Robey band finishes second in Georgia competition

Updated: May 15, 2013 7:45pm

The Jack Robey Junior High School Band of Pride lived up to its name in a May 4 invitation-only competition in Atlanta, Ga., that saw the 75 eighth- and ninth-graders bring home a second-place...

EMS calls dominate fire department activity

Updated: May 15, 2013 5:24pm

For the fifth consecutive month, emergency services calls dominated the activity of the Pine Bluff Fire and Emergency Services Department, according to their monthly report.

The report,...

Jefferson County Road Department and Recycling Report

Updated: May 15, 2013 4:05pm

Weekly Jefferson County Road Department and Recycling Report

May 3

• Bridge Crew: Limbs were cut on Princeton Pike. Checked the bridge on Sell Davis Road...

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