Several millage issues have been voted on in yesterday’s school elections. Among those millage issues decided yesterday, the Buffalo Island Central school district has lost its attempt to have a nine-mill increase. KAIT reports the unofficial numbers released from the Craighead County Clerk’s office are that 725 people voted against the issue, while 434 voted for it. Those who supported the issue say the measure would have merged the current four campuses into one campus between Monette and Leachville. In other millage issues, Trumann’s millage issue passed 605 to 498. East Poinsett County’s millage issue passed 59 to 34. Harrisburg’s millage issue was defeated by a vote of 240 to 171.
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.