Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Here are the stories in the Wednesday, March 21, 2001 edition of Nevada County Picayune

Oak Grove Civic League

Tuesday, March 6, the Oak Grove Civic League convened at its monthly meeting. The election of 2001-2002 officers was among the order of business. Herbert Coleman, after a lengthy tenure of on-going leadership, declined to declare himself a candidate for ...

Bluff City Helping Hands EHC

The Bluff City Helping Hands Extension Homemakers Club met March 9 at the Church of Christ. Marguerite Tomlin, president, called the meeting to order. Due to the weather and sickness the club had several members absent. Laverne Green, secretary, calle...

Jordan Lacey Wins Vocalist Award

Jordan Lacey Jackson of Malvern won first place in her age division last week in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. The announcement was made Sunday afternoon in the Louise Mandrell Theatre, where the events were held Tuesday through Friday of last week. Lacey won the...

Nevada County To Receive Funds For Feb. Flooding

Nevada County is one of 13 counties in Arkansas that will receive federal help from the flooding of Feb. 14. According to a release from Rep. Mike Ross's office, he and other members of the Arkansas delegation in Washington, D.C., were able to obtain as...

Former Police Office Pleads Guilty

A former Prescott police officer has pled guilty on two counts of aggravated assault and given a year's probation. Tyrone Butler, 30, of Prescott, along with his cousins, Channing Butler, 21, and Henry Lee Butler, Jr., 23, had been charged with committi...

Davidson Found Guilty; Receives 41 Years

A 45-year-old Emmet man will be spending the next 41 years in prison. John William Davidson was found guilty on five of seven counts during a trial Tuesday and Wednesday, March 13-14. On four counts he was given 10 year sentences, with a one year senten...

Changes Made To Easter Egg Hunt; Event Is April 14

There have been some changes made for the Seventh Annual Prescott-Nevada County Easter Egg Hunt this year. According to Chamber Director Mary Godwin, the event has been moved to the Nevada County Fairgrounds at the Potlatch Building this year. The reaso...

Chamber Banquet Is March 26, Auction Planned Again

Monday, March 26 is the date for the annual Prescott-Nevada County Chamber of Commerce Banquet. This year's event will again be held in the McRae Middle School cafetorium, with MMS proving the meal after submitting the winning bid. Tickets for the ban...

NHS Tabbed For Assessment Program

Nevada High School has been selected to participate in the National Assessment of Progress Program. NHS is one of only 1,200 schools in the nation to be invited to be involved in this program. According to NHS Principal Blake Epperson, students in grade...

County's Clean-Up 80% Done

Cleanup from the winter's ice storm is about 80 percent complete, according to Tom Carnes, project manager of D&J Enterprises, Inc. D&J Enterprises is the group clearing away the debris left from the storm. This business was selected from a dozen that a...

New Pay Period Approved For Sheriff's Deputies

Hoping to curb future problems, the Nevada County quorum court passed an ordinance at its regular meeting Monday, February 12, establishing new standards for compensatory time in the Nevada County Sheriff's office. Under the new ordinance employees in t...

Prescott Police Find Drugs In Vehicle

Not having a license plate on a vehicle led to the arrest of a 30-year-old Prescott man. According to court records, Prescott Police Department officers Larry Miller and Ann Jordan were patrolling in the area of West 3rd Street, when they saw a vehicle ...

Into The Void with John Miller

The Hardest Decision Ever Come in, sit down, shut up, get your pencils and paper ready. Take notes kiddies because the School of Hard Knocks is open for business and there will be a test later. Recently Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee lauded the General Ass...

What's Happening with Jon Chadwell

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood...

Illegal Alien Charged With Forgery

An apparent illegal alien has been charged with two counts of forgery, but can't be found. According to court records, on Feb. 8, Sgt. Walt DeYoung, with the Prescott Police Department, answered a call from the Arkansas Revenue Department concerning a H...

Garcia Arrested For Forgery By Police Chief

Juan Manuel Hirche-Garcia, 45, has been charged with first degree forgery. Court records state Prescott Police Chief Sam Reeder was called to the Arkansas Revenue Office on Feb. 22, in response to suspicious looking documents presented by Garcia, who wa...

NCSO Arrests One For Fleeing Checkpoint

A 19-year-old Nevada County resident turned misdemeanor charges into a felony by running through a barricade Saturday, March 17. According to Wayne Kisselburg, criminal investigator with the Nevada County Sheriff's Office, Leevester Loudermill, Jr., app...

Silverware, Bracelet Reported Stolen

Helping someone out proved costly to a Prescott woman. Court records state Beverly Hamm had let Cheryl Creech and her children stay with her as Creech was in the midst of a divorce. When the situation got untenable in October, 2000, according to the re...

Rob Hill Earns Promotion With Sudberry

Robert Rob' Hill, a 34-year veteran of the Sudbury Broadcasting Group, has been elected chief operating officer of the company. Hill served the company in several capacities, including general manager of the company's radio station operations in southw...

Cell Phones Being Collected By Church

Each day more than 5,000 women are assaulted by their partners. More than one in three Americans have witnessed an incident of domestic violence. Approximately 42% of female murder victims are women who have been battered by a husband or boyfriend. These...

Living Well with the Carrie Connection

Anger is a high-intensity, high-energy emotion which is generally of short duration as children grow and develop. Children learn how to express their anger  sometimes in a way that is helpful and sometimes in a way that is hurtful. Children need to lea...

Here & There . . . News That Matters To Nevada County

A representative of the Texarkana Social Security office will be in Prescott at the courthouse March 22. Supplemental Security Income pays monthly checks to people who are aged, disabled or blind and who do not own much or have much income. SSI is not j...

Emmet City Council Meets

Emmet's population grew during the decade of the 1990s, and is now 506. This information was given to the Emmet City Council at its regular monthly meeting Wednesday, March 14. Emmet Mayor Dale Booker said this is not official data from the U.S. Census...

Bullock Honored As Christian Student Athlete

Prescott High School student athlete Josh Bullock earned first team All-American recognition as one of the top high school Christian student athletes in America. More than 8,400 student athletes nationwide were nominated from 20,000 high schools for thi...

College News - Banks Earns Scholarship

Alexis Shantel Banks, a senior at Emmet High School, has been awarded a tuition scholarship to attend the University of Arkansas Community College at Hope next fall. The scholarship is based on an A.C.T. score and grade point average plus a recommendatio...

College News - SAU Students Honored For Grades

Tiffany Wynne Rash of Prescott, a business administration-finance major at Southern Arkansas University in Arkansas, has made all A's. Also named to the dean's list from Prescott were Robert Allan Callicott, a business administration-marketing major; Li...

Supporters For PHS Athletics Are Vital

If you have seen these people working a concession stand at a local basketball, baseball, or softball game and the Parks and Recreation peewee basketball program, or have seen the booster business sign hanging over their heads, you have probably supporte...

Two Scholarships Offered By Prescott Boosters

The Prescott Athletic Booster Club (PABC) is offering two one-time $500 scholarships this year. One will be awarded to a graduating senior female athlete, the other to a graduating senior male athlete. Scholarship applications may be picked up in the hi...

Oak Grove Program Proving A Success

The tutoring program initiated on January 22 in the community of Oak Grove is proving to be very successful. The student participating rate has been positive. Thirty-five active students are currently enrolled for this program. The range of students str...

4-H News

Youth between the ages of 5 and 19 are invited to join 4-H in Nevada County. There is no charge to join 4-H. There are three divisions within the 4-H organization: Cloverbud offered to ages 5 to 8 years old; Junior division for ages 9 to 13; and Senior ...

Chadwell Taking Part In LeadAR

Jon Chadwell of Prescott is one of 35 men and women selected from across the state to take part in LeadAR, a leadership development program sponsored by the Cooperative Extension Service, University of Arkansas. Chadwell recently attended a three-day se...

Caney News

Morris MBC was pleased to have Bro. David Smith as guest at our Wednesday evening service. Bro. Smith is a missionary from Macedonia Missionary Service and sponsored by Landmark Missionary Baptist Church in Martinez, Calif. Liz Nunn of Hope, Pam Clevela...

Willisville News

There was a surprise appreciation program last Sunday for Iris G. Dansby at Kendrick Chapel, along with Pleasant Grove and other visiting choirs. Velma Mixon and family went to Teague, Texas, to a relative's funeral, Lozella Crayton. Sis. Bobbie Owens ...

Oak Grove News

The Magnolia District Conference will be held April 6 and 7 instead of April 20 and 21. The colorrama was held at Bethel AME Church Saturday night. It was really nice. Purple was by Janet Smith, green was done by Benora Box, blue was by Mrs. Banks, gol...

Bluff City News

It's now official. Spring has arrived, according to the calendar, and everyone I know is ready for it. I have been "out of pocket" the last week or two, so I haven't heard much news. We were called to Missouri due to the death of my father-in-law on Mar...

Hillcrest News

J.E. Dillard, Cedealia Burke and Margaret Rhodes from Rosston visited Ozelle Dillard Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Hody Butler and daughter Jackie from Dallas visited Lula Butler Monday. Donnie Daniell from Texarkana and Evelyn Daniel visited Gertrude Estes a...

Redland News

I sure hope the weathermen are right and spring is here. Cathy Straley from Dallas spent the weekend with her parents, Pershing and Mary Cox. Two of Caley Pennington friends spent Friday night with Caley to celebrate her birthday. They were Tessa Webb ...

Boughton News

Chloe Orren has had a nice week. Harold White brought dinner Monday and ate dinner and also ate with her Saturday. Everett and Mary Orren visited her and took a nice birthday present. Chloe and Mary exchanged gifts since Mary's birthday was Sunday. Other...

Bodcaw News

Well, are you all ready for a change of time? Mary Anna Dorman spent the weekend in Louisiana with Beth Dorman, Thomas and family. Alta Mullins had to go back to the hospital, a little back set. Hope she will be out and better soon. Russ Carlton sang ...

Rosston News

Rosston sends sympathy to the families of Mark Smith and Jean Coburn. Mark Smith's youngest daughter was killed Saturday night due to an automobile accident. Jean Coburn's grandson was killed this past week in Pine Bluff. Jean is a sister of Dail Evans o...

Dola Sampson

Dola Sampson, 81, of North Little Rock died Wednesday, March 14, 2001. Mrs. Sampson was a retired seamstress with Capital City Casket Company and a member of Gardner Memorial United Methodist Church. Survivors include her husband, Garland A. Sampson; o...

Barbara Ellen Wright Budd

Barbara Ellen Wright Budd, 79, of Odessa, Texas, died Saturday, March 17, 2001, in Medical Park Hospital in Hope. Mrs. Budd was born November 29, 1921, in Oxford, Ohio, to Earl C. and Grace Winifred Duvall Wright. She was a housewife and former choir di...

Hershel Lee Billingsley

Hershel Lee Billingsley, 73, of Bryant, formerly of Prescott, died Friday, March 16, 2001, at Hospice Center in Fort Root in North Little Rock. Mr. Billingsley was born November 29, 1927, in Prescott to Carl and Ruby Ridling Billingsley. He was a retire...