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Newport still trying to attract new Arkansas Veterans Home

KASU | By Johnathan Reaves
Published August 8, 2013 at 6:50 AM CDT

Benton, Fort Smith, Jacksonville, and Russellville are all in the running for the new 22 million dollar Arkansas Veterans Home.  The city of Newport offered a proposal, and are still hoping to bring the new home to northeast Arkansas.  KASU's Johnathan Reaves has more in this report.
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Johnathan Reaves
Johnathan Reaves is the faculty advisor and editor-in-chief for Delta Digital News Service and the former 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.
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