100 years ago
April 29, 1918
• Firemen from the Fifth ward fire station, which was opened last Tuesday, made their first run last night, when Captain Tom Welch of Central Station turned in a false alarm to test the efficiency of the department. The alarm was turned in at 8 o'clock and in less than a minute the department was at the number given, which was three blocks from the station at Fifteenth and Pike avenue.
50 years ago
April 29, 1968
• The public response to the plight of David, the 19-year-old parolee from Tucker Prison Farm, has been most generous, not only for the personal encouragement it offers him but also for the broader acceptance of the halfway house concept in the city and state. David was the only parolee resident of New Life House at 2115 and 2121 Arch Street last week when a Pulaski Chancery court ruling prohibited the operation of such a facility for parolees and probationers at the location. The Arkansas Release Guidance Foundation, a non-profit organization engaged in new prisoner rehabilitation efforts in the state, plans to appeal to the state Supreme Court.
25 years ago
April 29, 1993
• The frustrations of inner-city living drowned Arnita Ware's hopes of opportunities for herself and her four children. Ware, 34, is packing and heading home to Texarkana, Texas, after recent trouble with gangs and her 11-year-old son. They capped two years of problems living in the city. "I thought the change of atmosphere and the opportunities here in Little Rock could be good for us all," the working mother said recently. "I was wrong. It was a mistake. My only choice is to move back home." As she spoke, two gunshots sounded. They were fired from the Oak Street vicinity, about three blocks away.
10 years ago
April 29, 2008
• As Arkansas sawmills close their doors in response to the U.S. housing-market meltdown and chaos in the nation's mortgage markets, the ripple effect has spread well beyond the mill workers. Loggers, logging-equipment dealers, timberland owners, and many retail and professional businesses in south Arkansas also are feeling the effects of the decreased demand for lumber, plywood and other residential construction materials. Ten mills in the area have closed their doors -- either indefinitely or permanently -- since late 2006, idling more than 1,800 mill workers. Those shutdowns have meant reduced demand for timber, less work for loggers, and fewer and less valuable timber sales for landowners.
Metro on 04/29/2018