As one group tries to defund a northeast Arkansas library, another is working to save it.

We learned today that a group called Save Our Libraries filed paperwork about its organization earlier this week with the Arkansas Ethics Commission. Save Our Libraries has already created a fund-raising form to boost the effort.

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Phyllis Burkett, a Jonesboro resident, is listed as president of the ballot question committee aimed at fighting a Nov. 8 ballot issue seeking to slash the Craighead County/Jonesboro Public Library‘s millage from two mills to one mill — a move that the library director fears could lead to closure.

Save Our Libraries’ treasurer is Kim Imboden of Jonesboro.

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“Save Our Libraries will expressly advocate for the defeat” of the millage proposal, the committee says in its filing.

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