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Lawrence County residents to vote on sales tax proposal next month

Residents in Lawrence County will vote next month on a half-cent sales tax issue.  County Judge Dale Freeman says the current jail is under probation and faces closure by the state.  Arkansas Jail Standards threatened to close the current jail last year, due to it being overcrowded and numerous safety violations.  Walnut Ridge’s City Council is voting tonight on whether to pass a resolution to officially support the sales tax election that will take place in November.  If approved, the money would go toward constructing a new jail.  If it doesn’t pass, the county faces shipping inmates out to other counties.

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.