Wynne Progress News Today

The city of North Little Rock has reopened additional sections of Burns Park.

The city of North Little Rock has reopened additional sections of Burns Park.

The Wynne Progress, shuttered after a tornado damaged its offices in late March, will publish again.

When I was growing up about 20 miles south of Fort Smith, Ark., I had multiple newspapers to choose from: the daily Southwest Times Record out of Fort Smith that

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When I was growing up about 20 miles south of Fort Smith, Arkansas, I had multiple newspapers to choose from: the daily Southwest Times Record out of Fort Smith that covered the River Valley region, plus the weekly Mansfield Citizen and the Greenwood Democrat, as well as the school paper I cut my teeth on, the Mansfield Tiger Tale. For statewide news, there were the Arkansas Democrat and the Arkansas Gazette dailies. In college, I added the Jonesboro Sun (owned by the Troutt family until 2000), ...

W hen I was growing up about 20 miles south of Fort Smith, I had multiple newspapers to choose from: the daily Southwest Times Record, plus the weekly Mansfield Citizen and the Greenwood Democrat, as well as the school paper I cut my teeth on. For statewide news, there were the Arkansas Democrat and the Arkansas Gazette dailies. In college, I added the Jonesboro Sun (owned by the Troutt family until 2000), the ASU Herald and The Commercial Appeal out of Memphis.

David Owens was managing editor of the Wynne Progress when a tornado tore across the city, killing four people and leveling much of the city. The twister also hit the weekly publications office, placing it on a hold that remains four months later.

The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette won the award for general excellence among the states larger daily newspapers at the Arkansas Press Associations annual convention in Little Rock Saturday. The newspaper earned 15 first-place citations.

The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette won the award for general excellence among the state’s larger daily newspapers at the Arkansas Press Association’s annual convention in Little Rock on Saturday. The newspaper earned 15 first-place citations.