Jonesboro is receiving a $1.2 million grant to help build a railroad overpass at Highland Drive. An Associated Press report states that Arkansas Senators Mark Pryor and John Boozman have made the announcement. The funds will be used to conduct reviews and create design plans for the overpass. The funds come from the U-S Department of Transportation's TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) program. The program provides funds to projects and areas that are expected to have a large economic impact.
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.