The Clark County Strategic Plan has 16 goals and action steps that pertain to Gurdon, but the residents and officials of the town are already taking action to make positive changes, Mayor Clayton Franklin said.

“Compromise is the key to accomplishing anything, not just in politics, but in life,” former Gov. Jim Guy Tucker said Saturday night. Tucker, Arkansas governor from 1993-1996, was the keynote speaker at the 12th annual Clinton Day Dinner, a fund-raiser for the Clark County Democratic Party.

EVERYONE loves the blues. Some people just don’t know it yet. Much like its followers, the blues has hitchhiked from one part of the country to another, evolving into new genres like R&B, soul and rock.

…Many of the goals and action steps affecting Arkadelphia are continuations of previous plans, such as the city’s Master Plan or the 2025 Commission’s master plan. Among those goals are plans to give Arkadelphia more of a “college town” fell with more sidewalks, pocket parks, murals and other attractions in the downtown area that would attract foot traffic and visitors…

Congratulations to the Boys and Girls club for the GOOD NEWS that recently appeared in our local paper concerning their first year’s progress.

Clark County residents hope that within a decade their area becomes a destination for retirees and college students, a technology center for the state and a premier recreational and tourism site for the Southern United States.

The is the sixth in a series of stories about the Clark County Strategic Plan. The focus is on the leadership section of the plan.

Leadership can be compared to art. It’s difficult to define, but we know it when we see it. That’s why the members of the leadership subcommittee of the Clark County Strategic Plan called their area the “least tangible” one of the plan, in terms of who…

A retired professor of chemistry at Ouachita Baptist University, Nix is known around here as The Water Guy. Before the winds blew, he was out on DeGray Lake with some visiting scientists. They were trying to figure out why the state’s eagle population was…

A walking tour of this Mississippi River town’s past, present and future could start at Bubba’s Blues Corner at the south end of Cherry Street, a whisky bottle’s throw from the Mighty River. Bubba Sullivan has a little of everything in his shop, including a healthy dose of Helena blues history (free of charge) and old 45 rpm records (25 cents each).

First Bank of the Delta, N.A. recently rewarded 12 Phillips County students for making good grades. Students dropped copies of their report cards off at any of First Bank’s branches.