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1 $1.00 Newton County Times Wednesday, December 11, 2019 Vol. 100 Number 50 Skull found in area searched; Jasper board JPs accept missing woman was looking approves master plan sheriff’s By JEFF DEZORT Newton County Times budget for Throne of Samuel e Jasper Board of Education met Nov. Staff Report 18 and approved the district’s master plan Staff Report MT JUDEA — Newton for construction, renovation, repair or e Newton County Quorum County Sheri Glenn other planned building fund expeditures Court passed the 2020 county Wheeler said a human for the next six years. operating budget in November, skull was found Mon- e school district has utilized every with the exception of the sheri ’s day morning in Newton program for costs sharing for projects o ce and jail budget which stands County and it might be completed at the district. To date, the alone. e sheri ’s budget was remains of a Garland Jasper School District has received a total made separate by the quorum County woman reported of $4,106,653.56 in Academic Facilities court a few years ago to improve missing in June. Funding. Jasper has a Building Fund bal- management of the sheri ’s funds e skull was located ance of $764,653. is money will go to and ensuring that the jail receives by a local resident south- the upgrades of heating and cooling units its reimbursements rather than west of Sam’s rone near across the district as well as other noted them being placed in the general Mt. Judea on U.S. Forest improvements. fund and used for other purposes. Service land. Superintendent Je Cantrell told the e sheri ’s and jail budget for Wheeler said the skull board the plan prioritizes replacing heating 2020 was presented to the quo- was the only thing found and cooling equipment 15 years old or rum court Monday night, Dec. so far but investigators older at all three campuses. New equip- 2. It calls for $776,765.60. Of that were continuing to search ment will be more e cient and will result amount, $615,265 is for personal the area for other remains. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO in savings for the district. services, $92,400 for supplies and “At this point we don’t Pamela Samuels-Lauro, 57 During the previous cycle, the school $69,100 for other services. have an o cial identi- district utilized state partnership funds for Along with the budget ap- identity or compare it to that was the subject of a cation on who this is,” the new electrical delivery and distribution propriation ordinance comes known missing person multi-week, large-scale Wheeler said, “ e skull system at the Jasper campus, a high school a separate ordinance budget- c a s e s .” search for a missing will be submitted to the addition at the Oark campus, a new cafeto- ing money the sheri ’s o ce Medical Examiner’s Of- Wheeler said the skull woman in June. See MISSING, 2A rium and septic sewer project at Kingston receives from the state referred ce to try and obtain an was found near an area See BOARD, 2A See BUDGET, 2A Jasper Christmas parade Saturday e Jasper and Newton County Kiwanis Club is sponsoring the annual Jasper Christmas Parade set for Saturday, Dec. 14, at 6 p.m. ere will a backdrop for Santa pictures at the front of courthouse. If it is very cold, photos will be taken inside of the courthouse from 2-4 p.m. Bring your camera to take your own pictures. ere will be cookies for the children. e theme for this year’s parade is “Angels Among Us.” Jasper is on the Arkansas Trail of Lights again this year. Everyone is encouraged to decorate for the holidays. e Kiwanis Club will give a trophy to the best decorated business and one for the best decorated residence. e Jasper and Newton County Chamber of Com- Jasper is on the Arkansas Trail of Lights again merce is encouraging everyone to shop locally. On this year. Everyone is encouraged to decorate parade day, please highlight your business with specials for the holidays. The Jasper Christmas parade, and celebratory activities. sponsored by the Jasper and Newton County To help usher in the holiday spirit, seasonal music will Kiwanis Club, is set for 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14. be playing on the square. TIMES PHOTO/JEFF DEZORT DEATHS William Liggett, Sr., 83 JP asks more time to study saving bridge Future of old Stacey Wheeler, 46 Newton County District site has been fully complied liability to its custodian. 8 Justice of the Peace Arlis with. On Monday night, Jones jail questioned Jones is working to save the Jones said the bridge presented the court with a By JEFF DEZORT decline could become state Highway 7 Bridge that would be a valuable tour- volume of documents titled Newton County times a liability for both the crosses the Bu alo National ist attraction for the area. “Authoritative Evidence e over century- city and the county. River at Pruitt. e bridge, He said the stay would give pertaining to Key Issues of old Newton County Larson said Jail sits just o the INDEX located in his district, is time for inquiry into the the Bu alo River Bridge Northwest Arkansas scheduled for removal once unwarranted destruction of at Pruitt.” Newton County Jasper square. It was Economic Develop- Viewpoints..............4A closed in 2009 and the Obituaries ..............5A a new span is constructed. It the old bridge. Judge Warren Campbell ment District, Inc., Correspondents .....6A is scheduled for completion e quorum court has also presented to the court new jail was opened has o ered the city Sports ..................7-8A a year from now. addressed taking ownership two documents showing next door in 2012. It assistance in securing Classifi eds ......... 9-10A e current bridge, con- of the bridge in the past. that the county had no was used brie y as a a government grant NIE ...............................11A structed in 1931, was listed In 2003 and again in 2007, interest in possessing the community food pan- to rehabilitate the on the National Register of then county judge Harold bridge. e rst was a letter try, but now it sits un- building and make it Historic Places in 1990 as Smith wrote letters to the from the highway depart- used and is falling into ADA accessible. She part of the Historic Bridges highway department that as ment dated Nov. 19, 2010, disrepair. Mayor Jan said there is no match of Arkansas, Multiple county judge he would work acknowledging to then Larson approached required. She won- Property Nomination, with the commission to take county judge John Gri th the quorum court dered if the county according to the Arkansas the current bridge into the that the county had no Monday night, Dec. would be interested, Department of Transporta- county road system or for interest in accepting the title 2, and inquired about but there would be no tion (ArDOT). e bridge the bridge to be le in place for the bridge. e other the historic building’s point getting the grant is the only known example for historical purposes. was a letter from Campbell future. if the building can’t be of a Pennsylvania rough e quorum court at to the highway department A lot of people maintained. e dead- Truss with two Warren various times said it would written on Oct. 17, 2013, think the jail is owned line to apply for the Pony Trusses attached to the be interested in the bridge that the county will not by the city, Larson grant is next March. main span. only to sell it as scrap. accept “ownership/respon- said, but it continues e problem is that Jones has been working ere appeared to be no sible” of the Pruitt Bridge. to be under county neither the city nor to nd support for saving enthusiasm among current Jones asked the court ownership. ere the county has the the old bridge and made a justices of the peace for the to look at the information are some glass panes money to operate and formal proposal to the quo- county to take over the re- and to table the matter for missing from some maintain the building. rum court at its November sponsibility of maintaining another month. “ ere is so windows and there e court’s solicitor, meeting. He asked his fellow the old bridge as a pedes- much information in this. are reports of mold on Brad Brown ques- justices of the peace to peti- trian crossing. ere is no way we can go the inside. She said the tioned that since the tion the circuit court to issue Jones convinced the JPs through it tonight.” He said city is working on a old jail is government- a stay of action preventing to at least table his proposal the documentation corrects long range economic owned could it be demolition until it is proven until the December court much misinformation that development study rented or leased for that all federal statutory meeting when he said he has been related concerning and the town’s historic commercial purposes. and policy requirements would provide some au- liability, safety and access business district is He believed it could pertaining to the matter of thoritative evidence that the issues involving the bridge. an important asset. be leased to another alteration or destruction of old bridge could be main- e court agreed to table Except for the jail government entity, a federally protected historic tained without the risk of the matter to January.

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