HOXIE, Ark. – While Hoxie Mayor Lanny Tinker was at his home Tuesday morning, a startling incident took place. A man walked into their home without permission. And the incident only gets crazier. Tinker’s wife, Lida, encountered the stranger who entered the home. She questioned the intruder, according to Tinker, [read more…]
HOXIE, Ark. – A boil order for Ecoli in the Hoxie water system has been lifted. The Arkansas Department of Health confirmed the order was lifted at 8:33 a.m. Monday, September 12. The order was issued September 6 at 1:51 p.m. after a confirmed Ecoli positive sample was discovered. The [read more…]
WALNUT RIDGE, Ark. – Three City Council seats are being contested in the first election to determine representatives of the newly consolidated Walnut Ridge since the election with College City in May. Several races are also contested in Hoxie. Candidates for Office in Walnut Ridge Walnut Ridge, City Clerk: Sharon Davis [read more…]
WALNUT RIDGE, Ark. – While parents took their children off to school Friday, many needed a boat instead of a vehicle. Water levels rose across Northeast Arkansas because of persistent rainfall. Both the Black River at Black Rock and Black River at Pocahontas were at minor flooding stages with no [read more…]
LAWRENCE COUNTY, Ark. – U.S. Highway 67 at Hoxie and Walnut Ridge is officially open. The ribbon cutting ceremony for the highway marks the completion of a direct path from Walnut Ridge, Hoxie, College City and other communities in Lawrence County to Little Rock. U.S. 67 previously ended at Arkansas Highway [read more…]
HOXIE, Ark. – A second dead body within a single day was discovered Monday evening in Lawrence County. A female, 40, of Hoxie, was found at the Cottonwood Apartments around 7 p.m. Monday evening, according to Hoxie Police Chief Glenn Smith. Smith is waiting until Wednesday to release the name [read more…]
HOXIE, Ark. – It is almost a crime for one not to be aware of the events which took place in the Hoxie School District in 1955. The unfolding milestones would be so influential, several members of the community have made it a personal mission to see a civil rights [read more…]
HOXIE, Ark. – As one new business is slated to move into the U.S. 67B shopping center, another is moving to the town next door. Ma and Pa’s Flea Market, a staple business in the U.S. 67 B shopping center just off the main highway in Walnut Ridge, is moving [read more…]
HOXIE, Ark. – The highway work at Hoxie is almost finished and it has many in the area excited. U.S. Highway 67 at Hoxie and Walnut Ridge will open Aug. 11, according to Walter McMillian, District 10 engineer for the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department.
LITTLE ROCK—Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Special Agent in Charge Diane Upchurch, of the Little Rock Field Office for the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) announced today that Brenda Montgomery, 57, of Walnut Ridge, Peggy Sutton, 61, of Biggers, and Cindy Tate, [read more…]
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