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Marlette Boales announced her candidacy for Ward 1 Pine Bluff City Council member.

From giving $5 to all of their siblings to buy toys to volunteering at the local food pantry, children ages 4 to 12 were recognized for their acts of kindness during the Dickie's Hero Day ceremony, a partnership between the Pine Bluff-Jefferson County Public Library System and Brandy Weatherly in memory of her father, Richard Dennis "Dickie" Ratliff on Tuesday.

The Who's Who of Jefferson County came out to honor and celebrate Bill Jones, his wife, Sharri, and his mother, Sissy Jones of Sissy's Log Cabin. In all, more than 300 people were in attendance at the First Ward Living Grace Food Pantry Charity Banquet on Saturday night.

What some consider Jefferson County's power couple, Pine Bluff Council Member Joni Alexander and husband, Jefferson County Judge Gerald Robinson, sat down with the Pine Bluff Commercial's Editor Byron Tate in a two-part web series of the Pine Bluff Commercial's segment 'The Newsroom."