The Downtown Jonesboro Parking Lot at Cate and Church Streets will be available for this Saturday’s Arkansas State University football game against Montana State. The Jonesboro Economical Transit System will provide low cost shuttle service from the city’s downtown parking lot to Centennial Bank Stadium, starting at three Saturday. Buses will run every 30 minutes until six. The kickoff for Saturday night’s game is 6:30 pm. The Jets Buses will provide return service back to the downtown parking area at ten and 20 minutes after the game is over. Director of JETS Steve Ewart says the rate per person on the bus for the fixed route express bus service is one dollar-25 cents each way for adults, 90 cents each way for students with current student ID and 60 cents each way for senior citizens over 65 years of age.
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.