The 36th annual King Biscuit music festival in Helena-West Helena was again deemed a resounding success. Throngs of blues-lovers from around the world and food vendors from around the region filled Cherry Street and its surrounding blocks over the weekend.
The founder of publicly traded USA Truck Inc. of Van Buren, Robert “Bob” Powell, was among the notable Arkansans who died this year. Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer Paul Greenberg was another, as was the founder of Hudson Cisne & Co. Here are a few of big names lost.
Berbon "Bubba" Sullivan, an avid champion of the blues and a driving force behind the annual King Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena-West Helena, died Wednesday at Baptist Health Medical Center in North Little Rock. He was 81.