Confiscating cars
Helena-West Helena code enforcement officers Terrance Oliver and T.L. Green along with members of the H-WHPD were occupied Tuesday and Wednesday confiscating cars that have been sitting in yards all over the city.
Delta Southern Bank Receives Honor
Congratulations to Delta Southern Bank in Ruleville and Drew! The community development financial institution was recently awarded an “outstanding” rating on its Community Reinvestment Act Audit by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Very few banks receive the “outstanding” raiting.
Open Forum: Arkadelphia Speaks – Daniell on sales tax
In the last of a three-part series in support of the half-cent economic development sales tax to be voted on tomorrow, Clark County Judge Ron Daniell joins Dr. Lewis Shepherd and Bill Wright in discussing reasons why this measure must be passed.
Angela Austin Named to Thirty Under 30 in Pine Bluff
The Pine Bluff Commercial named Angela Austin, program manager of Southern Good Faith Fund’s Business Development Center, one of “Thirty Under 30” in their Sunday April 29, 2007 edition.
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New Boys and Girls Club facility
An artist’s rendering of the proposed interior of the Boys & Girls Culb’s flagship facility at the old H&M Lumber Co. building on Plaza St.
Boys and Girls Club unveils big plans
Boys & Girls Club Executive Director Jason Rolett, Director of Programs Royce Watson, and Board Member Doug Friedlander have unveiled the Club’s 5-year plan highlighting its major priorities for 2007. The plans include substantially increasing the number of youths served and the number of life enhancing programs offered.
Voters approve tax on second try
HELENA-WEST HELENA – Voters narrowly approved a single, two-cent sales tax increase here just over a year after they rejected two separate proposals to raise the sales tax by 1 percentage point.
The increase – which will raise the total sales tax charged in the city to 10 percent – passed by a 125 vote margin Tuesday, with 1,555 votes for the tax and 1,430 casting their ballots against the tax.
$1.7 Million Affordable Housing Development in Helena-West Helena Has Opened
HELENA-WEST HELENA Southern Place Apartments, one of the largest multi-family housing developments in Phillips County in several decades, has opened.
Southern Community Development Corporation hosted the opening ceremony yesterday. Representatives from the Arkansas Development Finance Authority; the U.S. Department of Agriculture/Rural Development; Congressman Marion Berry’s office; and the offices of Senators Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor spoke at the event.
Supercharging savings starts at an early age
William Thomas Jr. invests in his future every month by bringing his piggy bank savings to First Bank of the Delta. The Phillips County pre-schooler already is saving for college and talks excitedly about going to college, thanks to an innovative program that supercharges his family’s own savings.