Residents of Little Italy, the small unincorporated community on the border of Pulaski and Perry Counties, will submit a petition for incorporation as a municipality today. The drive was started last summer.

A press release from the Little Italy Incorporation Task Force (an august body if ever there was one) says they’ve collected the requisite 200 signatures from qualified voters living within the proposed town’s boundaries, and that Little Italy would be the 501st municipality in the state.

Exactly 501 municipalities in Arkansas? It’s got to happen. Synchronicity demands it.

The group has a website and a Facebook page with some fun pictures and interesting history — and, improbably enough, a Twitter feed. Here’s their press release:

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