L. Lamor Williams

JP vote gives county workers 4% bonus

Quorum Court’s pay is also fattened despite objections of 3 members

The Pulaski County Quorum Court voted Tuesday night to give county employees and elected officials a onetime, 4 percent bonus despite a plea from three justices of the peace to exclude Quorum Court members from receiving the payment.
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Environmental agency opens Web map feature

Potential home buyers, the insatiably curious or just downright nosy have a new online tool to use in the quest for knowledge about their surroundings : EnviroView.
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Faith mixed with fun: CityFest

NLR event features food, music, helping hand for homeless

Like church on steroids, central Arkansas’ CityFest began with a bang Saturday with about 500 homeless men and women getting hot meals and social services, a minister preaching atop a tractor-trailer, and young people thrashing around in a mosh pit as though hypnotized by the edgy sounding Christian music.
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County wellness center a good fit

Official: Budget, workers healthier

It’s only a 28-by-40-foot foot room, with half a dozen exercise machines and a pingpong table, but after a year, the little wellness center is doing more than improving employee health, it’s putting money in the county coffers, says Pulaski County Treasurer Debra Buckner.
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Weekend of CityFest to be riverfront jubilee

Since July 15 about 250 churches from around central Arkansas have been participating in a “Season of Service,” organizing neighborhood cleanups, literacy camps and health clinics.
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Prisoners hope to start new lives on right hoof

Horse-care program teaches inmates new skills

Clayton Holmes wants to start his life off right when he leaves Calico Rock prison next year and find a job to make a living and keep him from returning to crime.
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83-year-old, family celebrate survival

At race for cure, mood is joyous

At 78, Geraldine Williams found a lump in her breast.
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Sun sets on LR Zoo’s ‘grump’

White rhino Dudley, 42, held special place in hearts, keeper says

Dudley could be a grumpy old man sometimes, but hey, he was a 42-year-old, 3,200-pound white rhino who wasn’t getting around so well anymore. It was to be expected.
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Top stock vie for college cash

Students in fair’s junior auction leave with scholarships

With black, white and red spots, it’s not hard to see why Ty Lester, 19, named his piglet Ugly Betty.
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JPs recommend OK of 4% bonus

They say critics of step fail to see big picture for county work force

Some Pulaski County Quorum Court Ways and Means Committee members said they feel as if they’re taking unfair flak for wanting to give employees a onetime, 4 percent bonus when some other government entities are struggling to balance budgets.
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