July 20, 2021 12:00
By Katie Copple, Producer & Multimedia Journalist at Siouxland News The last 18 months have been difficult. Amid a global pandemic, job losses, price increases, shortages, closures, political turmoil, and everyday challenges, 2020 and the first half of 2021 have not been what anyone would call “smooth sailing.”
In local news, it may have been even harder.
It WAS harder.
In January 2020, my newsroom was given the news that no team wants to hear.
There would be staff cuts and we would be downsizing in March. We already had the smallest team in the market. And we weren’t just colleagues, but many of us were close friends. Losing journalists, productions assistants, and photographers was going to be a challenge. Little did we understand what a challenge that would turn out to be.
Poll conducted in Benton, Washington, Sebastian counties on vaccine hesitancy Share Updated: 6:43 PM CDT Jul 6, 2021 Share Updated: 6:43 PM CDT Jul 6, 2021
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Show Transcript SPOKE TO THE GROUP BEHIND THE STUDY RYAN CORK WITH NWA COUNCIL SAYS THEY WANTED TLEARN O MORE ABOUT WHY ELIGIE BL PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY ARE NOT GETTING THE VACCINE. Ryan Cork, executive director for Northwest Arkansas Council Health Care Transformation Division we had a lot of theories t bu really didn t have any research that connected our theories together as to the why. CORK SAYS IN APRIL, BENTON, WASHINGTON, AND SEBASTIAN UNCOTIES STARTED SEEING FEWER AND FEWER ELIGIBLE PATIENTS COMING TO VACCINE CLINS IC THIS IS VIDEO AT A BENTON COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS CLINIC IN MAY. THE NORTHWEST ARKANSAS COUNCIL HEALTH CARE TRANSFORMATION DIVISION CONDUCTED A STUDY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BENTON AND SEBASTIAN COUNTY. Ryan Cork, executi ve director for Northwest Arkansas C
Pea Ridge police chief and mayor share legacy of Officer Kevin Apple 4029tv.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from 4029tv.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Lowell police officer shares who Officer Apple was as a friend and an officer Share Updated: 8:15 PM CDT Jun 29, 2021 Share Updated: 8:15 PM CDT Jun 29, 2021
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Show Transcript 4029S KENDALL ASHMAN JNSOI US LIVE FROM PEA RIDGE. OFFICER APPLE SERVED I SEVERAL CITIES IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS DURG IN HIS 23 YEARS IN LAW ENFORCEMENT. TONIGHT. WE SPOKE WITH A LOWELL POLICE OFFIR ABOUT WHO KEVIN APPLE WAS AS A PERSON, FRIEND AND OFFICER. roAan Pile, Lieutenant for Lowell Police Department from the bottom of r ou heart, we are just men and women that want to help peleop. And kevin was the best representation of that. LIEUTENANT AARON PILE JOINED THE LOWELL POLICE DEPARTMENT IN 2004. .. OFFICER APPLE WAS HIS TRAINING OFFICER AT THE TIME. Aaron Pile, Lieutenant for Lowell Police Department if he walked into a room and the moral was down. Or something bad had happened that day, it was his goal to pick it back up. PILE SAYS SATURDAY W A AS DA
CWS security is keeping busy catching people using fake IDs Share Updated: 10:57 PM CDT Jun 25, 2021 Share Updated: 10:57 PM CDT Jun 25, 2021
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Show Transcript BRINGS FANS FROM OUT OF STATE EVERY YEAR IN DROVES. AND WLEHI THE DRINKS MAY BE FLOWING AT TD AMERITRADE PARK. WE’RE SEEING A LOT OF MINNESOTA. WE’RE SEEING A LOT OF KANSAS. WE’RE SEEING AOT OF ILLINOIS A FEW NEBRASK,AS BUT COLORADO’S SECURITY AROUND THE BALLPARK HAS THEIR HANDS FLUL WITH CATCHING FAKE IDS. THIS IS ALL THE FAKE IDS THAT WE’VE COLLECTED OVERHE T PAST SINCE FRIDAY OF PEOPLE ARE GET IN AND WITH TO NO AVAIL, OBVIOUSLY WHILE SOME UNDER-21 MAY TRY THEIR LK WITH A FAKE ID MACINTOSH SAYS, IT’S NOT HARD TO CATCH SOMEONE IN THE ACT HONESTLY THEIR F PERSON SAYS GOOD AWARENESS BY HIS STAFF SAVES EVERYONE HEADACHES LATER ON. WE’RE AVOIDING A LOT OF PROBLEMS AND FIGHTS AND ISSUES DOWN HERE JUST BY BY CATCHING THEM AT THE DOOR AND NOT LETTING THEM IN. WELL, THERE