Welcome to Newport, Arkansas

Newport Police Department

Police Chief Larry Dulaney – (870) 523-2722

The Police headquarters are located at: 

616 Second Street 

and is attached to the Newport Municipal Building.

The police department consists of:

• 19 full time sworn officers
• 4 part-time sworn officers
• 1 animal control officer
• 1 support person

The Newport Police Department operates the county wide 911 system with 4 full time radio operators working 24 hours a day.

The average annual budget for the police department is $850,000.00. The average annual budget for 911 is $200,000.00.

Police department personnel bring over 140 years of experience to their jobs.

Our mission:

To serve and protect as well as enforce all Federal, State and City laws. To be a community oriented Police Department.

Fire/Ambulance

Emergency – Dial 911

Fire Chief – Alan Gansz

Phone: (870) 523-3331

The Newport Fire Department proudly serves and protects the lives and property of the citizens and visitors of Newport in a variety of ways.  Residents of Newport enjoy a lower cost of living and doing business in part because of our ISO fire class rating of 3. Our department of 16 full-time and 18 volunteer firefighters provides coverage from three fire stations with four pumpers, one service truck, one snorkel, and two ambulances.

All stations are staffed 365 days a year by three shifts that work on a rotating basis. We provide protection for approximately 17 square miles within the city and an industrial area just outside the city. Some of the services that the Newport Fire Department provides are fire suppression, fire prevention education, fire and life safety inspections, rescue, pre-emergency incident planning, and emergency medical treatment and transport services with both advanced and basic life support.

We are proud that many of our members are active in a variety of events and activities that include youth sports, boy scouts, schools, churches, civic clubs, and our local Chamber of Commerce.

The Newport Fire Department is committed to continued training and excellence of service to provide the highest possible protection and quality of life for our citizens and visitors.

Kerry Tharpe  – Superintendent

(870) 523-9884

The Public Works Department is in charge of residential and commercial sanitation, streets, a maintenance shop facility and recycling. An average of 26 full time employees work in this department that operates on an average annual budget of $1,200,000.

SANITATION

• Twice weekly residential garbage pick up
• Bag of 50 trash bags distributed twice a year to residents
• Please do not put tires in city dumpsters. Tires can be dropped off at the Newport City Shed.
• Once weekly residential brush and trash pickup at curb
• Commercial brush and trash pickup available at request, billed according to volume
• Chip site available for use by all city residents and contractors working in the city limits free of charge
• Commercial garbage pickup according to customer need
• Leaves are to be bagged for curb side pick-up. Bagged leaves are not to be put in the dumpster as the Landfill cannot take them.  Placing bagged leaves in dumpsters can result in a fine.
• The Newport Recycle Center does not accept tv's or computer monitors.

STREET

• Street development within the city limits
• Street, ditch and storm drain maintenance
• Maintenance of city owned lots
• Operation and maintenance of flood pumps
• Sweeping of city streets weekly

SHOP

• Operation and maintenance on city equipment

Martin Steward

Phone: (870) 523-8121

The City of Newport operates a modern and up-to-date wastewater treatment facility. Two treatment facilities serve the needs of industry, business and residential customers. The City of Newport completed renovations to the Airbase Industrial Park treatment facility in 2004 and a 2.3 million dollar renovation project on the main sewer treatment facility in 2010. The City of Newport now has a three million gallon capacity per day system. All of this work was accomplished without an increase in sewer rates, which remain among the lowest in the state.

Johnny Long

Phone: (870) 523-6568, x 2

Mobile Phone: (870) 512-8185

Grants are continually received by the Arkansas Dept. of Parks and Tourism for addition and improvement to city park facilities

NEIGHBORHOOD PARKS

Lockwood Park, corner of Malcolm Avenue and Lakeshore Drive, on the Newport Lake. Playground equipment, fishing pier, picnic pavilions and an opportunity to feed the ducks. New walking trail completed.

Normandy Acres Park, corner of Park & Eastern Avenues. Playground equipment and a practice ball field.

Branch Park, corner of Calhoun & Jones Streets. Playground equipment, outside basketball court, practice ball field and picnic pavilions.

Airbase Park, corner of Airbase & Johnson. Playground equipment, practice ball field, basketball court and picnic pavilion.

Crossroads Park, corner of State & Patterson Streets. Playground equipment, basketball court and practice ball field.

Hines Park, corner of Hines & Warner Streets. Playground equipment, basketball court and pavilion.

BASEBALL COMPLEX

George Kell Park, located on Fairground Road, just off Highway 367 is a state-of-the-art ballpark complex. The park is home to a combination of 6 ball fields providing opportunities for t-ball, softball, Little League, Babe Ruth and American Legion players, all with covered bleachers and dugouts.

The Newport HIgh School Girls Softball team plays their games at the complex on a field with a modern press box facility

Curtner Field, located in Kell Park, is the ball field where both the Newport American Legion team and the Newport High School Baseball team play. The field is equipped with brick dugouts and foot railings, covered grand stands with “chair style” seating for over 100 and a handicap seating area. An impressive press box rises above the grand stands and across the field is displayed an impressive “big league style” scoreboard.

State District Judge at Third Judicial District 

Judge Henry Boyce

Phone: 870-523-9555

Thomas Sanders, Manager

Terminal – (870) 523-3613

Newport Regional Airport is a full service general aviation airport with two 5,000 ft. long by 150 ft. wide concrete runways, taxiways and ramps.  Runway 18/36 offers WAAS LPV GPS instrument approaches with MIRL, REIL and PAPI lighting systems.  The AWOS weather station is located on site and incorporates the latest FAA technology.  The 5,000 sq. ft. terminal building was constructed in 2012 and offers flight planning, rest and refreshment areas for flight crews with comfortable waiting and conference areas for passengers.  The facility is open after-hours with credit card access to Shell 100LL avgas and Jet-A fuel and push-button access to terminal facilities and courtesy car.  The airport offers a full service aircraft maintenance facility and hanger that offers service and repairs to single engine piston through corporate jet aircraft.  Individual airport owned hangers presently accommodate 19 based aircraft, with more hangers in the planning stage.  The large airport ramp area has room for large corporate aircraft and tie-down spaces for over 50 aircraft.  The airport ramp area is well lighted and fenced with an 8 ft ornamental security fence and the City of Newport maintains a 24/7 manned fire station on site for airport operational saftey.  The Terminal is located at 3800 North Operations Drive, Newport, Arkansas 72112.

Trey Randolph

Phone: (870) 523-6568, x 3

Mobile Phone: (870) 217-1970

The Inspection/Building Code Enforcement Officer is responsible for the following:

Issuing building permits for construction within the city limits of Newport

Working with Planning Commission and Board of Zoning Adjustment to ensure a coordinated, adjusted and harmonious development of the City

Providing zoning code information

Assisting in the enforcement of laws necessary to preserve sanitary and healthy conditions

Working with department heads to guarantee safety regulations are adhered to by all city employees in the workplace.

Kenneth Grady 

(870) 503-1438

The City of Newport has operated its own extensive mosquito control program since the summer of 2002. During the summer of 2003, an airplane equipped for spraying was added to a fleet of 8 trucks to fight the mosquito battle. The use of the most up-to-date equipment and techniques has made our program very successful, and the envy of many Delta cities.

The trucks spray the entire city 6 nights a week and the city is sprayed by plane as needed. Special spraying for outdoor activities is available upon request.

Maintenance and upkeep of the vehicles, airplane and equipment is done by the mosquito control department.

Wendale Comer, General Manager

Phone: (870) 523-5847

The Newport Water Commission operates a state-of-the-art water treatment facility.  Water is delivered to Newport industries, businesses and industries from a number of wells locate throughout the community.  Water rates in Newport are among the lowest in the state and are significantly lower than the national average.  The 4,000,000 gallon system currently has a surplus capacity of almost 2,000,000 gallons.

Companies are required to have a business license to conduct business within the city limits of Newport.  Licenses can be purchased at the City of Newport Municipal Building, 615 Third Street, Newport, AR 72112.  Contact the City at (870) 523-6568  x0 for more information.