Here are the stories in the Wednesday, February 7, 2001 edition of Nevada County Picayune
- Debris Cleaning Continues In Nevada County
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- D&J Enterprises of Auburn, Ala., has the contract to clean up the debris left by the Christmas Day ice storm across Nevada County.
Nevada County Judge James Roy Brown said the county signed a contract with D&J on Jan. 24, with crews starting to work acr...
- City Council Approves Clean-Up Contract
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- Terry Don McKinnon was awarded the contract to clean up the debris in the Prescott City Limits from the Christmas Day ice storm.
This decision was made at a special called meeting of the Prescott City Council, Tuesday, Jan. 30.
The council received thr...
- January Rainfall Tops Out Over Nine Inches
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- No one really needs to be told January was a wet month.
According to local weatherman John W. Teeter, the area usually gets 4.51 inches of rain in January, but received 9.27 inches last month.
This puts Prescott up 4.76 inches in rainfall for the early...
- Festival T-Shirt Design Underway
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- Want to win a cool $50?
Then put your best chicken oriented idea down on paper for the 14th Annual Prescott-Nevada County Chamber of Commerce Chicken and Egg Festival T-shirt contest.
And, those planning to enter should hurry up with their designs, as...
- Nashville Ruins Prescott's Senior Night
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- Senior night didn't go as planned for the Curley Wolves and Wolverettes, as both fell to Nashville in the final home game of the season.
WOLVES 48
SCRAPPERS 62
The Wolves, leg weary from a Thursday night road game at Fountain Lake, weren't able to keep ...
- Into the Void with John Miller
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- Showdown At Midfield
Legislation has been proposed to allow people with concealed weapons permits to carry firearms on school grounds. This in spite of an existing law prohibiting weapons on campus.
Where the legislator in question got this brilliant id...
- On Track with John Ragsdale
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- Getting Started
It was good to see crews working over the weekend, beginning the clean-up of the city's streets from trees and limbs that fell during the recent ice storm. As everyone locally knows, not a block that had trees growing in yards escaped dam...
- Letter To The Editor - Dennis Brantley
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- Accusations About Club False
As a child growing up in the Bodcaw community I was always impressed with the concern and genuine desires of the local citizens to have a clean and pleasant community to raise their children in. These are noble and worthy eff...
- Letter To The Editor - Dusty Thomas
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- Student Researching County
I am an eight grade student at Ozark Junior High. As a project in our Arkansas History class, we are researching different counties in our state. I have been assigned Nevada County.
Our research requires obtaining information ...
- Redland News
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- I wish I could find that ground hog, I'd chop his head off.
Tessa Webb spent Friday night with Caley Pennington.
Louie McKissack and Nina Brewer from Little Rock spent Saturday with Neil and me.
Margie Compton from Hot Springs visited her sister-in-la...
- Hillcrest News
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- Kay Wallace from Hot Springs and son, Greg Wallace, from Austin, Texas, visited their Aunt Medius Avery Tuesday.
J.E. Dillard, Cedealia Burke and Margaret Rhodes from Rosston visited Mr. and Mrs. Louie Dillard Tuesday.
Georgeann Britt from Okolona visi...
- Bluff City News
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- Plans are that we will be out of state on Sunday, Feb. 4. Sunday is
the day I get most of this column, so I will have to fill this space this week
with more items from the past and other assorted nonsense.
From April 1979: Coach Lou Holtz was the guest ...
- Caney News
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- We enjoyed having a visiting speaker at Morris Baptist Sunday evening. Bro. Kevin Kimbrel from Texas is attending the seminary in Louisiana. He brought some friends, one of whom presented special music.
Arlene and Mourine Butler and Mary Joe Gregory of ...
- Willisville News
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- Dec. Pearl Henry is sponsoring a musical program March 3 at 7 p.m. at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church. Guest groups will be the Spiritual Wonders of Nashville, the Young Singers of Rosston and the Delta Spirituals of Willisville. Everyone is invited.
Fune...
- Oak Grove News
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- I attended Oak Grove Baptist Church Sunday morning. You talk about a wonderful service. They have a very good pastor, Rev. Parsha. The church was full. They really have a lot of children. I have never seen so many children at Oak Grove. He is a very good...
- Bodcaw News
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- Another great report on Pat Wilbanks. She and Butch came on Saturday to spend the day with the J.D. Allens. It was a real treat to get home for a visit. S he had been in the hospital since thanksgiving.
Morine Butler, Earlene Butler, Betty Jo Gregory an...
- Boughton News
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- We have heard a lot about the ground hog this week. I don't know if he knows what kind of weather we are going to have or not but it is still cold.
We enjoyed having Jerry Horn of Texarkana visit us one day last week.
Lonnie and Leon Moore of Michigan ...
- Rosston News
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- I have spent most of the week in the doctors office but think I'm doing better the past day or two. I went to Hope two times and to Texarkana on Thursday. I will get some follow-up blood work done in Little Rock on the 12th. Please pray that I'll get a g...
- Seventh Grader's Winning DAR Essay Entitle 'Father Abraham'
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- AMBER ALYSSA PICKETT
SEVENTH GRADE
Father Abraham
I would be a good listener if I could only hear the United States Capitol tell some of the important events that happened there in the nineteenth century. If I could climb the three hundred and sixty-five...
- School Menus: February 12-16
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- Menus for the area schools for the week of February 12-16 are as follows. All meals are served with milk. They are also subject to change. Breakfast in Prescott Schools is served from 8:00 to 8:30 and lunch is served between 11:30 and 12:00.
Prescott Sch...
- Here & There . . News That Matters To Nevada County
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- A representative of the Texarkana Social Security office will be in Prescott at the courthouse Thursday, February 22, and March 22.
Supplemental Security Income pays monthly checks to people who are aged, disabled or blind and who do not own much or hav...
- Valentine Revue Planned By Lions
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- The Prescott Lions Club will present a 2001 Valentine Revue next Tuesday, February 13, at 7:00 p.m. in the Prescott High School auditorium.
There will be no admission charge, but a donation will be necessary as you enter.
The concert will feature some ...
- Hopson Promoting Peace In Korea
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- The son of a Prescott man plays the same role in international politics as a U.S. Secretary of State. While the Secretary of State negotiates an end to a cold war between North Korea and its southern neighbor, this soldier is also doing his part to promo...
- McRae Middle School Honor Roll Given For Second Nine Weeks
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- McRae Middle School has announced its honor roll for the second nine weeks. The list of students follow.
All A's:
Fifth grade: Kayli Birdsong, Garrett Crellin, Michael Crowder, Bagrielle Harlow, Gavan McCauley and Samantha Stovall.
Sixth grade: Brittan...
- College News - UACCH Awards Scholarships
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- The University of Arkansas Community College at Hope is pleased to announce that Ashley LeAnne Gentry, Hannah Nicole Ward, Jamarrio Traveil Beasley, Paul Edward Patton, Pamela Nicole Young, Ronetha Marie Pearson, Carrenthia Lynette Gulley and Timothy Joh...
- McRae Middle School Semester Honor Roll Released
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- McRae Middle School has announced its honor roll for the semester. They follow by grades.
All A's
Fifth grade: Garrett Crellin, Gavan McCauley and Samantha Stovall.
Sixth grade: Brittany Cason, Colbe Christopher, Samantha Wiley, Jordan Haynie and Brod...
- Cameron Tommy 'C.T.' Harris
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- Cameron Tommy C.T' Harris, 78, of Prescott, died Tuesday, January 30, 2001, at Medical Park Hospital in Hope.
Mr. Harris was born November 24, 1922, in Pike County to John Rolf and Ordris Steed Harris. He was a retired forest ranger with the Arkansas F...
- madelyn Whiterington Parker
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- Madelyn Whiterington Parker, 94, of Hampton, formerly of Prescott, died Thursday, February 1, 2001, in Dallas County Nursing Home at Fordyce.
Mrs. Murry was born August 8, 1906, in Woodberry to Quince Witherington and Ida Tracy Witherington. She was a r...
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