The City of Jonesboro has launched a new website that is designed to be more interactive. Jonesboro Mayor Harold Perrin tells the Sun the new site is expected to “enhance community engagement and communication”. The redesigned site is at www.jonesboro.org, and provides information on a wide range of services the site provides. It also allows citizens to reserve facilities for special events, report unsightly conditions and problems, and will tell citizens about upcoming meetings. Information on pending action, as well as past decisions, is also available on the website. One feature on the site is the “Join the Discussion” feature, where city officials may propose solutions of various problems in Jonesboro, and citizens can provide their input. Perrin expects citizens to like the interactivity the new site will provide.
Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.