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Little Rock City Director Virgil Miller Jr., who was appointed to the Ward 1 seat on the city board last year, filed election paperwork Monday to run for a full four-year term of his own in the Nov. 8 election, according to the Little Rock city clerk s office.
Individuals hoping to run for Little Rock mayor as well as six of the seven ward-specific seats on the city s Board of Directors will be able to officially file as candidates for municipal office in the Nov. 8 election starting today.
The 74 apartments at the Sunset Terrace complex in Little Rock will be gutted and redone in a monthslong construction project set to begin in October, according to the city s federally funded housing authority and the private developer set to manage the complex.
Loretta Hendrix, who unsuccessfully sought an appointment to the Ward 1 seat on the Little Rock Board of Directors previously held by her late mother and later announced her intent to run for mayor, said this week that she will run for the Ward 1 seat instead.