Cornerstone will host Janet Air Wednesday night for St. Patrick's Day at 8:00 pm.  There will be a $5 cover, so come enjoy the mid-week music and celebration

Redstone Construction had to tear out the sidewalk and curb on West 5th to make the drainage work.  Notice the new form work and red string line running down the curb line. This is one of the methods used by the Egyptians to make sure the pyramids were straight.  Hopefully Redstone also learned the Egyptian technique of using a level, to make sure the curb drains to the inlet, this time around. 

Crush Wine Bar at 318 Main Street will open for daily service Tuesday, March 16th.  Joe St. Ana with over 15 years of experience in the wine and liquor business has moved Crush Wine Mar from the Rivermarket to Argenta.  The wine tasting venue offers over 100 kinds of wine sold by the bottle and 50 by the glass as well as appetizers of compliment the wines.  Wine tastings are offered on alternate Mondays. Local artist's partings add an artistic ambiance to the tasting environment.

Crush is open Monday thru Thursday 4:00 pm to 10:00 pm and Friday and Saturday nights from 4:00 pm to midnight.

This Wednesday, March 17th the Argenta Branch Library at 506 Main Street will host a special St. Patrick's Day  After School Craft Time for kids at 4:00 pm

Go check it out with your kids and meet all the great people at the Library

The Argenta Market just got in their new shopping baskets.  The hand carry small basket shown on the right, you are used to seeing at your local Kroger.  However, the basket on the left is the really neat one.  It is about twice the size of the smaller typical basket and has an extendable handle and wheels on the bottom so you can wheel it around the market.  It will also feature the Argenta Market logo on it as well. 

But the best part is you will be able to buy your own rolling basket and take it home with you loaded with your purchases form the Market.  Look for a price for the larger basket around $35 plus tax.

The "Battle of Bands" benefit for the Amboy Community Food Pantry is scheduled for Sat. May 22, 2010.  We are hoping your group will help with this cause.  We are hoping to have enough music to need to start 2 hours earlier this year at 2pm and continue until sunset.  I hope you and your band will be able to help us.  This has become our largest fund raiser over that last 4 years and our need is greater now that ever.  Feel free to contact me, Jim Carpenter @ 501-758-8806 for more information.

There's a big hole in the hand-painted, valued-at-$350,000 stained glass window in the sanctuary at 1st Presbyterian Church. Actually the whole window is bowing in and is in danger of collapsing out into the street. They have one grant to hep with repairs in the sanctuary, but it's not enough, so they are using that grant to (hopefully) leverage another one. But the church won't know about the grant until June, so they are going to have to board up the window to protect it until then. The church will also have to sign an easement over to the historical society giving the grant. Shouldn't be a big deal, but since the Presbytery owns the church property, they have to sign off on the whole thing--which, of course, makes it all a big deal.

There is no guarantee that the church will get the grant, so if you can help with the stained glass window, please stop by the visit and visit with Pastor Anne Russ. She will appreciate any help

The City of North Little Rock is buying two properties at the foot of the Rock Island Bridge by the RV Park.  The Mayor wants these properties to connect the trail over the bridge to Riverside Drive to the north.  Previously, the Mayor had indicated the trail would follow along the flood wall requiring a very limited purchase of private property. 

At the Council meeting Monday night, the Council approved purchasing one of the properties for about $74,000.  The Mayor also obtained a "sense of the council" that they will approve the purchase of a second property for around $150.000.  IN a fairly convoluted discussion at the Council meeting, Mayor Hays also asked for a "sense of the council" for spending $750,000 out of future bond issue to help the Clinton Foundation pay for the bridge restoration.  But more on that little gem in a later post.  Mayor Hays indicated the property purchase would come out of the $750,000 for the bridge restoration.

But since that was our money anyway, isn't that like taking money from one pocket and reimbursing it from our wallet in our own back pocket?

The City of North Little Rock has a new blog to keep us all updated on census activities in the City  You can link to the Census Blog here. The blog site was developed by web site marketing guru Barbara Pardue and they want your help. So here goes

So many good things are happening around town related to the work YOU are doing to promote the Census, and it’s really beginning to show.

 We are just beginning to record some of the work going on now by you and your committees. We want you to email us and contribute your news at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and let us know what you are doing to make this campaign the best in the state (and probably best in the nation.) Tell us what you have done to promote the census in your committees, and send us pictures, if you have them, so we can add you to our growing blog site!

This first election poll is about the Arkansas House District 39 Democratic primary race.  This first poll will only be up for a week or so, since we have so many races to cover, so go vote now!.  The Scroll on down to the lower right of this page to find the poll.  You must be a registered user of Argenta to vote and you can register at the top of this page. 

The incumbent Representative Richard Carroll is running against current State Senator Tracy Steele.  Carroll ran as Green Party candidate two years ago when he was first elected and has since switched to the Democratic Party.  Steele is term limited from running again for the State Senate but he can  run for one more term in the House.  Since there is no Republican who filed for this race, the winner of the Democratic primary will likely be the next State Representative for Argenta.