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Jonesboro and AGFC to partner for $5M Jonesboro shooting range

KASU | By Johnathan Reaves
Published April 6, 2016 at 3:17 PM CDT
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The 300 acre site of the shooting range would be located off of Moore Road, near I-555.
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Jonesboro Police Chief Rick Elliot announces a partnership with the Game and Fish Commission to build a new shooting range for police and the public.

Environmental and other studies are needed. If it moves forward, the $5 million facility would be located on a 300 acre site off of Moore Road.  Elliot tells what the new facility would have:

Elliot tells what the economic impact to the region would be by having this facility:

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The AGFC would pick up 75% off the cost and operation of the facility.  Elliot says that kind of partnership will be a huge cost savings for Jonesboro residents. 

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Rick Elliot.  The Jonesboro Police Department hopes to have the facility completed by the end of 2017.

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Johnathan Reaves
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.
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