Nevada County Picayune   The Gurdon Times

Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive


Here are the stories in the Wednesday, November 24, 2004 edition of Nevada County Picayune

Gertie Martin
Gertie Martin, 93, of Texarkana, Ark., died Tuesday, November 16, 2004, at St. Michael's Hospital in Texarkana, Texas. She was born May 28, 1911, in Rosston. Mrs. Martin was a retired cafeteria manager for the Willisville School System, a homemaker and a ...
Truett Bailey
Truett Bailey, 73, of Magnolia, died Friday, November 12, 2004, after a brief illness. A member of Central Baptist Church in Magnolia, he was born February 8, 1931, in Nevada County. An avid horseman, he was one of the early pioneers of the Magnolia Ridi...
Lillian Terrell
Mrs. Lillian Hale Terrell, 101, of Prescott, died Thursday, November 18, 2004, at Hillcrest Care and Rehab in Prescott. A resident there since 1998, she considered their staff and clients a second family. She was born on July 19, 1903, in Nevada County, t...
Wolves sweep Gurdon in season opener
Prescott pulled a hat trick to open basketball season Friday night, by taking three games from Gurdon. The Wolves whipped the Devils 64-57, while the Wolverettes posted a 50-46 win. The Curley Cubs doubled the junior Devils, 50-25. Gurdon won the opening ...
Complaints levies on new streets
It didn't take long for residents to begin complaining about the street project. At the Nov. 15 meeting of the Prescott City Council, two residents from Newtown talked about problems in that section of town because of the streets. Dale Gulley and Vern Cla...
NES gets grant to improve test scores, NHS doesn't
Nevada Elementary School received a grant for $100,000 to help improve the district's Benchmark test scores. Tiffany Beasley, NES principal, said she submitted a grant for Nevada High School as well, but it didn't receive the grant. Nevada Superintendent ...
Briggs talks about war in Iraq, becoming drill sergeant
At no point since the war in Iraq began has the situation been good, but it's better now than it was in the beginning. Sgt. Napoleon Briggs, a 1987 graduate of Prescott High School and 14-year veteran with the U.S. Army, said he arrived in Iraq shortly a...
Two arrested for drugs
Two Prescott residents were arrested on drug charges recently. According to reports from the Prescott Police Department, Larry Peters, 46, has been charged with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver, possession of crack cocaine with intent to del...

Search | Nevada County Picayune by date   | Gurdon Times by date  

Newspaper articles have been contributed to the Prescott Community Freenet Association as a "current history" of our area. Articles dated December 1981 through May 2001 were contributed by Ragsdale Printing Company, Inc. Articles June 2001 to ? were contributed by Better Built Group, Inc. Articles ? to October 2008 were contributed by GateHouse Media.

Ownership of all Nevada County Picayune content from the beginning of the newspaper, including predecessors, until May 2001 was contributed by the John and Betty Ragsdale family to the Prescott Community Freenet Association. Content on this site may not be archived, retransmitted, saved in a database, or used for any commercial purpose without express written permission. Web hosting by and presentation style copyright ©1999-2009 Danny Stewart