Arkadelphia, Ark. –

The Arkadelphia City Board of Directors met Monday to consider an ordinance assessing a five mill tax against real and personal property; bids on 10 in-car video systems; a resolution accepting a USDA grant for police units; an ordinance approving financing of the police units and an ordinance waiving competitive bidding.

The KIPP charter schools, which have proved a success story in Helena, have chosen Blytheville as the location for the next KIPP school in Arkansas.

Southern Good Faith Fund, a nonprofit that has helped businesses and families in Pine Bluff since 1988, moved this week from 2304 W. 29th Ave. to the Donald W. Reynolds Community Services Center, 211 W. Third Ave.

Sarah Higgins and J.B. Mooney, who work for Southern Bancorp, checked on the hamburger/hot dogs prepared for participants in the 21st annual KFFA/MDA Charity Golf Tournament Sunday at the Helena-West Helena Municipal Golf Course.

The Arkadelphia City Board of Directors will meet today at 5:30 p.m. in the Town Hall boardroom.

The first item of business is the consideration of an ordinance assessing a five-mill tax against real and personal property in the city limits. This is a yearly ordinance that is adopted and given to the Clark County Quorum Court before the first November meeting each year.

Henderson State’s “A Day with the Duke” Golf Tournament presented by Southern Bancorp is scheduled for September 18-19 at DeGray State Park Golf Course.
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The Alcoa Foundation presented Clark County Charitable Health Services a check for $15,000 Wednesday in a “continued effort to provide health services for the citizens of Clark County.”

Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas (PCCUA) announces that Juaquita Bennett, of Helena-West Helena, is the newest recipient of the Southern Bancorp Scholarship.

Arkadelphia, Ark. –

The Economic Development Corp. of Clark County met for its first time with a 15-member voting board Tuesday.

Business carried on as usual after the new members were sworn in by Circuit Clerk Martha Jo Smith. Chairman Euodias Goza said the new voting board will be the “same group as we have been, but instead of five voices, we have 15.”

The last payday lender has left Arkansas, according the organization that led opposition to a business plan that routinely charged triple-digit interest rates for short-term loans.

Arkansans Against Abusive Payday Lending announced Tuesday that First American Cash Advance, the last payday lender to operate in the state, closed its last Arkansas store on July 31.