Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced this week the State has opened 1,485 beds since she took office. "Arkansas' prison bed shortage has gone on for decades, and under my leadership we have ...

By Joseph Fondren NEA Town Courier Contributor Delta Gateway Museum founding director Leslie Hester announced her intentions to retire, via the museum's Facebook page, at the end of the year. Hester, ...

I would like to take this moment to thank our readers and advertisers for another successful year. Your local newspapers are the oldest businesses in the county. The Town Courier is about to embark on ...

“Since I don't do resolutions, I would like to express a city vision for 2025. I am honored to have this opportunity to wish all of you a loving and warm New Year. We live in an amazing city and ...

Tony Dale Benham Sr., 63, of Manila, passed from this life Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024, at his home with his loving family by his side. Son of the late Mackey Joe and Shirley Ford Benham, he was born in ...

Heaven welcomed an energetic new angel on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, as Cindy Lu Childress Carlock entered the gates after battling pneumonia and septic infection. Cindy was born Jan. 7, 1967, in ...

Carrie Jewell Mays, 78, of Manila, passed from this life Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024, at NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jonesboro. Daughter of the late Blain and Cleo Loveless Turney, she was born in ...

Richard "Mike" Godsey, 83, passed away at home Monday morning, Dec. 23, 2024. He was born in Fort Worth, Texas, on June 19, 1941, to Richard and Evelyn Godsey. He had attended First Christian Church ...

Gerald Wayne Lloyd, 81, of Blytheville, passed away peacefully Monday, Dec. 23, 2024 at Manila Nursing Center. Born in Iuka, Miss., to Elbert and Bertha Northington Lloyd, Gerald was retired from ...

Sharon Sparks, 68, of Jonesboro, passed away Dec. 20, 2024, at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was a homemaker and a member of New Life Tabernacle in Wilson. Mrs. Sparks was born Nov. 5, ...

The Manila School Board held its last meeting of the year with student expulsion hearings. Following the approval of minutes and financials, the board went into a closed expulsion hearing for two high ...