how is jonesboro doing (Paragould: zoning, job, house)

[raiders_2010]

hey guys i haven't been on in a while because i moved away from arkansas
i was just wandering how jonesboro was doing
i've been keeping up with it the best i can but i'm probably missing a lot of info.
What new has come to jonesboro
new businesses? new restaurants? new anything?
would love all the info i can get

[junkman18]

Originally Posted by raiders_2010

hey guys i haven't been on in a while because i moved away from arkansas
i was just wandering how jonesboro was doing
i've been keeping up with it the best i can but i'm probably missing a lot of info.
What new has come to jonesboro
new businesses? new restaurants? new anything?
would love all the info i can get

We were in jonesboro last week, Went too sam's and jonesboro is doing fine.
Maybe you can fined a jonesboro news paper on line. Allot of papers are and it's always fun to see whats going on.

[raiders_2010]

thanks
i found a website...
it's
Jonesboro Sun

[J Arp]

I was in Jonesboro last week, too. I guess it depends on how long you've been gone to determine what is "new"

Newer bars/clubs/restaurants I found myself in/on/around:

El Matador - Used to be Jose's. New name, same problems so I hear. Nothing to fear for your life about though...

Piero's - Right across the street from Matador

The Brickhouse - 5 dollar cover charge my @#$%

The Electric Cowboy - These things are everywhere..

And there is the new mall, which was apparently designed by a team of anorexic architects. Smallest stores I've ever seen. There is also a lingerie shop on 49S named Seductions where Ed's Catfish used to reside. Last time I read The Sun online all the bluehairs were apparently trying to get a new ordinance or rezoning done to push them out of business. I'm not an avid lingerie buyer, but its a shame to hear about people trying this crap even after that Mombays or Behind the Door or whatever its called is still in business and it is a pretty obvious head shop. Actually, maybe it isn't in business anymore...I haven't driven through that part of town in awhile myself.

They have public transportation.. those JETS buses which just seem like a waste of money to me for a town laid out like Jonesboro, but I do have my own car so..

They seem to be finally renovating the parts of downtown that aren't located on Main St. also-- encroaching on the ghetto territories near the college. It is funny to me how the downtown nightlife and those pockets of hell (Creath Ave, "Da Heights", etc.) can be so close. You truly do NOT want to be walking around Creath at night, unarmed and alone, and yet it is like two blocks from Main St.

Jonesboro Schools has some sort of magnet school. Valley View finally has a football team.
The gap between Paragould and Jonesboro is decreasing every day it seems. Pretty soon it will look like a mini-NWA.

Now if I could find a job there in my field I'd go back in a heartbeat.

[TWB]

We too have moved away and try to keep up with the latest in Jonesboro. The Jonesboro Sun is a good newspaper, but its website is horrible. It is extremely limited and does not update on the weekend.

I would recommend channel 8's website. It's much better.

BTW, Carr's grocery and restaurant is closing. They're retiring.

[raiders_2010]

thnx guys for the information
i just moved away a last year around july
i can't believe that jonesboro is getting bars and clubs...it's just so hard to believe...haha
well anymore info would be great