Friday, February 10, 2006
A crisp Friday morning
Kay Johnson, the Greenwood School Superintendent, is quoted in the Southwest Times Record defending the decision to pay dependent health care for the high school football coach, a benefit not available to other faculty members. She asked if any school board members watched the Super Bowl and explained that a 30-second commercial during the Super Bowl cost $2.5 million. “Our society places a big emphasis on sports,” Johnson said. “We’re just a reflection of our community and our society.” The district is also spending $600,000 on Astroturf for the football field.
The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas reports 49 school districts failed to apply for a federal program last year, and have left an estimated $4 million in money for new telephone and computer connections to go to other states since 1998.
State Treasurer Gus Wingfield will not seek re-election to a second term
The gunshot that killed Benton ballerina Julie Buskin was touch her skin when it was fired according to testimony in the trial of Castillo Sanchez who is accused of the 1996 murder in Oklahoma City.
A police officer posing as a deliveryman for FedEx arrested four people on drug charges Wednesday afternoon after they accepted packages containing marijuana. The snitch was a drug dog at the FedEx hub in Texas.
Keiser Police Chief Jimmy Bohannon Jr. was arrested in Osceola on felony drug and burglary charges
An employee at Adult World at Palestine, who was arrested twice last year, was arrested again Wednesday for violating the same state laws regarding the sale of obscene films. In December, the company that owns Adult World entered a guilty plea and was fined $40,000 in an agreement to protect employees.
A Little Rock mother who stabbed her boyfriend to death about two years ago needs to start setting a good example for her children, Pulaski County Circuit Court Judge Chris Piazza said Thursday in sentencing her to five years of probation, a $500 fine and anger management classes after a guilty plea to manslaughter. She could have gotten 10 years.
The Jefferson County jail is expected to open on schedule in November with beds to accommodate 304 prisoners.
The U.S. Postal Service facility on Race St. In Jonesboro will soon be named for Hattie W. Caraway, the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate and the first Arkansan to appear on a commemorative stamp.
The Boeing Co. says that it will close its Melbourne operation, which has 103 employees, later this year.
The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas reports 49 school districts failed to apply for a federal program last year, and have left an estimated $4 million in money for new telephone and computer connections to go to other states since 1998.
State Treasurer Gus Wingfield will not seek re-election to a second term
The gunshot that killed Benton ballerina Julie Buskin was touch her skin when it was fired according to testimony in the trial of Castillo Sanchez who is accused of the 1996 murder in Oklahoma City.
A police officer posing as a deliveryman for FedEx arrested four people on drug charges Wednesday afternoon after they accepted packages containing marijuana. The snitch was a drug dog at the FedEx hub in Texas.
Keiser Police Chief Jimmy Bohannon Jr. was arrested in Osceola on felony drug and burglary charges
An employee at Adult World at Palestine, who was arrested twice last year, was arrested again Wednesday for violating the same state laws regarding the sale of obscene films. In December, the company that owns Adult World entered a guilty plea and was fined $40,000 in an agreement to protect employees.
A Little Rock mother who stabbed her boyfriend to death about two years ago needs to start setting a good example for her children, Pulaski County Circuit Court Judge Chris Piazza said Thursday in sentencing her to five years of probation, a $500 fine and anger management classes after a guilty plea to manslaughter. She could have gotten 10 years.
The Jefferson County jail is expected to open on schedule in November with beds to accommodate 304 prisoners.
The U.S. Postal Service facility on Race St. In Jonesboro will soon be named for Hattie W. Caraway, the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate and the first Arkansan to appear on a commemorative stamp.
The Boeing Co. says that it will close its Melbourne operation, which has 103 employees, later this year.
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Once again I repeat my sentiments posted on Feb.3,regarding Kay Johnson. I wonder what girls' basketball team she coached in a former life as she has obviously been further promoted beyond her level of competence.
Let Greenwood's example light the way.Perhaps, Greenwood's hideous pandering of its coaches,athletes and athletic budget will allow it to avoid the sad consequence that befall most schools in our beloved state: the promoting of incompetent coaches to that of incompetent PRINCIPALS and incompetent SUPERINTENDENTS.
Let Greenwood's example light the way.Perhaps, Greenwood's hideous pandering of its coaches,athletes and athletic budget will allow it to avoid the sad consequence that befall most schools in our beloved state: the promoting of incompetent coaches to that of incompetent PRINCIPALS and incompetent SUPERINTENDENTS.
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: 9:52 AM
: 9:52 AM
25 Greenwood,Arkansas teachers are complaining because the football coach has the full cost of his monthly family health insurance paid by the district, a benefit which is not unavailable to regular faculty members. . Coach Rick Jones’ annual salary is over $71,000. Superintendent Kay Johnson told the Southwest Times Record, “Our football program is going in the right direction and we don’t want that to shift into reverse.”
Let Greenwood's example light the way.Perhaps, Greenwood's hideous pandering of its coaches will allow it to avoid the sad consequences that befall most schools in our beloved state: the promoting of incompetent coaches to that of incompetent PRINCIPALS and incompetent SUPERINTENDENTS.
Roy Murtishaw
301 W. 33,Apt.227
Pine Bluff, AR
870-550-7696
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Pat,
I agree Kay was out of line. However, In view of the atrocities being rained upon our society by the Busheviks, 100,000+ civilian deaths in Iraq at a minimum, many hundreds of thousands dead in the Sudan,grotesque global warming toasted at the altars of corporate greed, I'm amazed at the degree to which the Greenwood situation has so aroused you from your "reality TV" stupor!
You haven't gotten your bowells in such an uproar since you discovered Bill Clinton was a card carrying heterosexual and had the audacity to lie about his sex life in the witch hunt conducted by the " manly " GOPs and other assorted hypocrits
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Let Greenwood's example light the way.Perhaps, Greenwood's hideous pandering of its coaches will allow it to avoid the sad consequences that befall most schools in our beloved state: the promoting of incompetent coaches to that of incompetent PRINCIPALS and incompetent SUPERINTENDENTS.
Roy Murtishaw
301 W. 33,Apt.227
Pine Bluff, AR
870-550-7696
_____________________________________________
Pat,
I agree Kay was out of line. However, In view of the atrocities being rained upon our society by the Busheviks, 100,000+ civilian deaths in Iraq at a minimum, many hundreds of thousands dead in the Sudan,grotesque global warming toasted at the altars of corporate greed, I'm amazed at the degree to which the Greenwood situation has so aroused you from your "reality TV" stupor!
You haven't gotten your bowells in such an uproar since you discovered Bill Clinton was a card carrying heterosexual and had the audacity to lie about his sex life in the witch hunt conducted by the " manly " GOPs and other assorted hypocrits
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