A group that is backing a measure to place alcohol sales on the November ballot faces a five p.m. deadline today to get additional signatures turned in to the Craighead County Clerk’s Office. Our Community, Our Dollars turned in 21,180 signatures to the Clerk’s Office earlier this month. Of that number, about five thousand signatures were thrown out. County Clerk Kade Holliday says the group needs to collect three thousand-810 signatures and have them turned in to the county clerk’s office by five p.m. today. Holliday tells KASU news signatures have not been turned in yet. In Saline County, additional signatures were also needed by today’s deadline. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports 25,917 signatures were turned in to Saline County, but the clerk’s office rejected 4,406 of those signatures. On Monday, more than 6,700 signatures were submitted to the clerk. A petition for Faulkner County has been pushed back to Tuesday, August 5 because efforts to collect signatures were delayed after a tornado ripped through the county in April.
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.