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Here are the stories in the Wednesday, October 11, 2006 edition of Nevada County Picayune

Wolves win homecoming against Horatio, 49-15
With the mercy rule invoked during the fourth quarter, the Wolves took home another major victory on the road to what could become a top spot in the conference. The Wolves took an early lead against the Horatio Lions and simply refused to give in to the ...
PPD arrests sex offender
Officers with the Prescott Police Department had been on the lookout for a sex offender believed to be living in the area for several months. Friday, Sept. 6, officers got the break they needed to make an arrest. Raymond Charles Stokes of Louisiana was a...
City has opportunity to cash in on history
The Arkansas Parks Department has begun an initiative to create downtown historic districts. There are several benefits for property owners, both inside the district and in the surrounding area - and the most important benefit is probably the opportunity...
Kiwanis to hold fish fry at PES
Members of the Prescott Kiwanis Club are planning a fish fry for Oct. 20, just before the Curley Wolves meet Centerpoint in the last home game of the football season. The Kiwanis event is slated for 5-7 p.m. at the Prescott Elementary School cafeteria. A...
NC Cancer Society promotes awareness
October is Breast Care Awareness Month and at least two local women who have battled breast cancer are hoping to spread the word. Debbie Henson and Judy Duke are both active with the Nevada County Cancer Association, and both have faced the news - breast...
Keep Arkansas beautiful - start off in Nevada County
It's time for the annual trash pick up in Nevada County. Prescott-Nevada County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Mary Godwin said area businesses, civic clubs, organizations and individuals are invited to participate for cash prizes. But more impor...
Weather watch recounts little Sept. rainfall
A small amount of rainfall that fell during September wasn't enough to bring the area to normal rainfall levels. That report came from weather watcher Davis Benton. According to Benton's report, rainfall in Cale for September was 4.22 inches, bringing t...
Pryor reports on Iraq visit
Conditions in Iraq are improving. The leaders of that country must be willing to take more control and responsibility. And the countrys economy could be on the upswing. Those were just a few of the points made by US Sen. Mark Pryor has just returned fr...
County roofing project underway
The Nevada County Courthouse is getting a new roof. According to information from the courthouse, workers got started preparing the roof for application of new rolled roofing from Firestone Building Products, Prescott facility. Nevada County Judge James R...
Uvern Clay
Uvern Clay, 62, of Prescott, died Thursday, September 28, 2006, at St. Michaels Hospital in Texarkana, Texas. Uvern Clay was born February 7, 1944, in Cornerstone, to the parentage of the late Julius Clay and Bernice Toney Clay. He was a member of Corn...
Donald Spigner
Donald Ray Spigner, 60, formerly of Prescott, passed away September 26, 2006 in Little Rock, after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was born March 26, 1946, in Prescott, where he was raised by his loving grandmother, Bertha Brown (Big Mama). He was reti...
Collen Gulley
Collen Gulley, 81, of Prescott, died Tuesday, October 4, 2006, in Medical Park Hospital in Hope. He was born March 10, 1995, in Bluff City to Frank and Daisy Clanahan Gulley in Bluff City. He was a member of Union Grove Baptist Church in Bluff City and...
Emily Paladino
Emily M. Nuss Paladino, 64, of Prescott, died Thursday, October 5, 2006, in Medical Park Hospital in Hope. She was born September 12, 1942, in New Orleans, La. She was a homemaker. Survivors include her husband, Ralph Ricker of Prescott.

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