Texarkana Gazette

City manager vote expected at Board meeting | Arkansas-side Board has named Jay Ellington as finalist During a regular meeting Monday, the city Board of Directors will vote on approving an employment contract for Jay Ellington, the sole finalist to become the next city manager. by Karl Richter Published May. 15 2021 @ 10:46pm

Restaurants here say staffing deficiencies are not unmanageable Some local restaurants are having trouble finding staff. by Junius Stone Published May. 15 2021 @ 10:44pm

L-E crowned champions among area 4A teams Liberty-Eylau knew finishing its Class 4A area round baseball series with Kaufman would be difficult. by Earl Gill Published May. 15 2021 @ 9:49pm

Musician Bryan Jefferies starts business making custom guitars TEXARKANA, Texas — Pandemic downtime last year inspired longtime local musician Bryan Jefferies to retool his working life and put a half-century of guitar smarts to work building guitars. by Aaron Brand Published May. 13 2021 @ 5:58pm

QUESTION OF THE WEEK | Is Gov. Hutchinson right to end the $300 weekly supplement to unemployment compensation? Is the federal unemployment supplement still needed? Published May. 13 2021 @ 3:50pm

American Legion Ladies Auxiliary celebrated its centennial Saturday Although American Legion Post 58's Ladies Auxiliary is now a century old, it's support and advocacy for veterans stays young according to its membership. by Greg Bischof Published May. 15 2021 @ 10:41pm

Kiwanis flip more than 3,000 pancakes for fundraiser | Annual tradition continues support for area nonprofits As in years past, the Kiwanis Club of Texarkana's annual Pancake Day fundraiser had three key ingredients going for it Saturday: Fair skies, moderate temperatures and dry weather. by Greg Bischof Published May. 15 2021 @ 10:39pm

Sevier County hospital board hires new CEO The Sevier County Hospital Board has hired an Arkansas native as its first CEO. by Lori Dunn Published May. 15 2021 @ 10:37pm

Pipeline operator says 'normal operations' have resumed The operator of the nation's largest gasoline pipeline -- hit on May 7th by a ransomware attack -- announced Saturday that it has resumed "normal operations," delivering fuel to its markets, including a large swath of the East Coast. by Associated Press Published May. 15 2021 @ 9:56pm

Oklahoma bucks red-state trend, extends early voting On Election Day last year, state Rep. Jon Echols was mortified to see a 3 1/2-hour line to vote in his district, which stretches from the edge of Oklahoma City's urban core into suburban neighborhoods that give way to wide stretches of rural land. by Associated Press Published May. 15 2021 @ 9:55pm

Japan, U.S., France hold military drill eyeing China presence Dozens of Japanese, American and French troops landed amid pouring rain from a CH-47 transport helicopter onto a grassy field at a training area in southern Japan, part of Saturday's joint scenario of defending a remote island from an enemy invasion. by Associated Press Published May. 15 2021 @ 8:57pm

Them again: Djokovic, Nadal to meet in Italian Open final Maybe the new generation of tennis players isn't quite so ready to end the eras of Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal. by Associated Press Published May. 15 2021 @ 10:16pm

LeBron James returns to help Lakers beat Pacers LeBron James returned from a six-game absence to score 24 points, Anthony Davis had 28 and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Indiana Pacers 122-115 on Saturday. by Associated Press Published May. 15 2021 @ 10:14pm

Ashdown falls in 3A semifinals, 6-5 Ashdown and Harding Academy went down the wire in the Class 3A semifinals of the Arkansas state tournament Saturday at Panther Field in Ashdown City Park Published May. 15 2021 @ 10:09pm

Texas high schoolers set prices for classmates in 'slave trade' chat A North Texas school district said that it had disciplined a group of students at a predominantly white school who had assigned prices to students of color in a Snapchat group message called "Slave Trade." by NYTimes News Service Published May. 15 2021 @ 10:25pm

Texas Democrat weighs how to defend voting rights As Republicans in the Texas Legislature run roughshod over corporate opposition, public protests and Democratic objections to advance a voting restrictions bill to the brink of passage, state Rep. Jessica Gonzlez, a two-term Democrat from near Dallas, has been at the forefront of the fight. by NYTimes News Service Published May. 15 2021 @ 10:04pm

'Heartbeat bill' banning most abortions heads to Gov. Abbott's desk A bill that would effectively ban most abortions in Texas by outlawing the procedure once a fetal heartbeat can be detected received final approval from state lawmakers on Thursday and is headed to Gov. Greg Abbott's desk. He has said he will sign it into law. by Austin American-Statesman Published May. 15 2021 @ 9:58pm

BILL OWNEY | HERE COME THE ELECTRICS: Ford, Kia have eyes on not-so-distant future Steam-powered cranes raised Henry Ford's 40-foot cathedral of "vertical integration," the Rouge River Complex where generations of workers would turn trillions of tons of ore and sand into millions of cars and trucks. Published May. 15 2021 @ 6:31pm

IN OUR VIEW | Leveling The Field: Bill to let home-schoolers participate in some public school activities a good idea One of the biggest arguments against home schooling is that students are to some extent isolated, unable to interact with a diverse group of peers in the classroom and in extracurricular activities. Published May. 15 2021 @ 5:39pm

IN OUR VIEW | Don't Panic: Gasoline hoarding unnecessary and only makes things worse It was just more than a year ago when panic buying emptied store shelves of things like toilet paper, bottled water, household cleaners and other essential products. Published May. 15 2021 @ 1:43am

COLUMN | GM, LG partner on battery cell scrap recycling General Motors Co. and battery cell manufacturing partner LG Energy Solution are partnering with a Canadian company to recycle battery cell manufacturing scrap -- a move that aims to achieve environmental goals and cut costs. by The Detroit News Published May. 15 2021 @ 6:22pm

BOOKS | REVIEWS: People We Meet on Vacation A truly good romantic comedy, whether it be a novel or a movie, justifies why two people are drawn to each other. It builds a case for the relationship so it makes sense why they're together. by Associated Press Published May. 15 2021 @ 4:48pm

BOOKS | REVIEWS: Things We Lost to the Water Eric Nguyen's moving debut novel explores the importance of stories. "Things We Lost to the Water" is about a Vietnamese family in New Orleans and the story that the mother, Huong, tells herself about how she came to arrive in the United States with her two sons and without her husband. Published May. 15 2021 @ 4:46pm

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