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Public meeting concerning highway work in Searcy

The Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department (AHTD) will hold a Design Public Hearing in Searcy to discuss plans to construct a 2 lane connector between Highways 36 and 16 in northern Searcy.

The construction work will create a new 2 lane connector that will extend north from Highway 36, just west of Honey Hill Road, cross Collins Road and then curve east to Highway 16.

The meeting will be held Thursday, August 21st, from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., at Searcy High School (Cafeteria), 301 N. Ella St., in Searcy. The public is invited to visit anytime during the scheduled hours to view displays, ask questions and offer comments. For more information, contact the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department’s Environmental Division at 501-569-2281.

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.