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Council merges animal control into police department
Local Comments Updated: Jun 04, 2013 12:44pmThe Pine Bluff City Council voted Monday night to bring the city’s formerly independent animal control department under the supervision of the police department.
The recommendation — co-...
Master Gardeners
Local Comments Updated: Jun 03, 2013 8:54pmGerald Andrews helps lay out food during the Master Gardener monthly meeting and annual picnic Monday at the Waterfront Facility at Regional Park. (Special to the Commercial/William Harvey)
Local jobless numbers improve in April
Local Comments Updated: Jun 03, 2013 7:52pmData released by the Arkansas Department of Workforce Services on May 29 show that the Pine Bluff unemployment rate for the month of April fell to 10.4 percent from the March reading of 11.7...
Mayor suggests mall as location for police patrol division
Local Comments Updated: Jun 03, 2013 8:25pmAs the Pine Bluff City Council considers an ordinance calling for the police department’ patrol division to move into the vacant National Guard Armory on the north side of town, Mayor Debe...
Elliott to seek Democratic nomination to state House
Local Comments Updated: Jun 01, 2013 6:20pmFormer Arkansas State Rep. Efrem Elliott has announced that he will seek the 2014 Democratic nomination for the District 16 House seat will be vacated by Rep. James Word of Pine Bluff.
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Local Salvation Army captain recounts Oklahoma relief trip
Local Comments Updated: Jun 01, 2013 6:08pmSalvation Army Captain David Robinson of Pine Bluff provided aid to victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 and has been on scene at any number of other natural disasters, but the aftermath...
Residency proposal highlights council agenda
Local Comments Updated: Jun 01, 2013 6:02pmNine items — eight ordinances and a resolution — await the Pine Bluff City Council at its Monday night meeting in the civic center’s council chambers.
Only one ordinance is due for a third...
Pine Bluff National Bank is now Relyance Bank
Local Comments Updated: May 31, 2013 7:24pmPine Bluff National Bank became Relyance Bank ON Friday but the only thing that has changed is the name.
Relyance Bank President and CEO Chuck Morgan emphasized this point during a Friday...
Mayor opposes police move to armory
Local Comments Updated: May 31, 2013 8:20pmPine Bluff Mayor Debe Hollingsworth said Friday that she opposes the moving of the police department’s patrol division to the former Army Reserve/National Guard armory at 1000 North Myrtle St.,...
Abuzz about bees UAPB professor shares knowledge
Local Comments Updated: May 31, 2013 8:27pmYong Park, a professor of entomology at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, grew up in the Republic of Korea not far from the demilitarized zone that separates the country from its communist...
