Here are the stories in the Wednesday, November 5, 1997 edition of Nevada County Picayune
- HTML Editor's Note:
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- This edition of the newspaper was converted to HTML on November 15, due to illness.
- Most Lawsuits Dismissed Against Sheriff
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- By JOHN MILLER
Most of the cases filed against the Nevada County Sheriff's Office have been dismissed. Ralph Ohms, attorney for the NCSO, said none of the cases had merit and couldn't hold water in court. At this time, he said, the only case rema...
- Repairs Approved By Council At Second Meeting
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- Property Needs To Be Re-Zoned As City Prepares To Place Industry
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- By RICKY RAGSDALE
With a quick meeting Wednesday, October 29, the Prescott City Council voted 6-2 to approve the repair of the old armory building. A second meeting was called by Prescott Mayor Howard Taylor to try to get approval for the project ...
- Secret Service Investigating Check Scam -
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- Buchheit Pleads Guilty To Murder
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- By JOHN MILLER
There will be no trial for Keith Buchheit, who was charged with the murder of Jake McKinnon Nov. 9, 1996. Monday morning, with the court preparing to select a jury for the trial, Buchheit's attorney worked out a plea bargain with Eigh...
- Area Still Dry After Above Normal Rainfall
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- October Rain Falls 7 Days
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- By JOHN MILLER
Even though it rained more than normal in October, local meteorologist John Teeter said the area is still below what it should be for this time of year. According to Teeter, the normal amount of rainfall for a Nevada County October i...
- Living Well
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- LECTURE SERIES TO BE OFFERED
The Cooperative Extension Service invites you to take better care of your health by participating in our health and wellness lecture series called Sandwich-in-a-Healthier-Life. This series will be offered the th...
- Prescott Elementary School Releases First Nine Weeks Honor Roll
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- Prescott Elementary School has released its honor roll list. The students making the list is listed below by grade.
First grade: all A's: Clay Alumbaugh, Rachel Hale, Trisha Oliver, Maria Delgado, Kelsey Wren, Josh Barbarree, Sara Booke...
- PMS Honor Roll Given
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- Prescott Middle School had released its honor roll list. The students making the list are listed below by grade.
Fifth grade: all A's: Aaron Bullock, Samantha Gordon, Ben Hale and Trevor Hunt; A's and B's: Ashley Andrews, Joshua Glass, J...
- LR Hospital To Set Up Memorabilia
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- In recognition of the 75th anniversary of the designation of Fort Roots Hospital in North Little Rock as a medical facility for the veterans of Arkansas, a ceremony will be held November 8 to dedicate a collection of historical memorabilia that will be...
- College News
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- Andrew D. Almand, a senior at Prescott High School, was awarded an Alumni Scholarship to Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia. The scholarship has a four-year value of over $7,000.
Almand plans to major in accounting. He is the son of Dale an...
- Central Baptist Church To Celebrate 70 Years
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- Sunday, November 9, Central Baptist Church will celebrate its 70th anniversary in the Prescott community.
`Seventy Years: Serving the Savior' is the theme for the special day wich will begin at 9:15 a.m. with coffee, juice and doughnuts for every...
- Church Anniversary Set
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- Life Line Chapel, located off Highway 371 South just outside the Prescott city limits, will celebrate its first anniversary of ministry in Prescott in November.
The pastor of the church is Rev. David W. Burgess. The church came into exista...
- Military News
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- Billy Joe Todd Jr.of Prescott has completed basic training and will be making his home in Virginia. The 1997 graduated of Prescott High School is the son of Fran and Calvin Lacy. He is the grandson of Bobby and Cellestean Phillips of Prescott.
- PHS Routs Fouke; To Face Fordyce Thursday
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- The Prescott Curley Wolves varified their desire to play in the state play-offs last Thursday with a 58-0 trouncing of the Fouke Panthers.
The Wolves are now in fourth place in the 7AA Conference, behind Fordyce, Nashville and De Queen in that or...
- PHS Routs Fouke; To Face Fordyce Thursday (cont)
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- On Fouke's next possession, an interference call against Prescott gave the Panthers a first down at their 44, but on fourth and 11, the Panthers had to punt once more. Prescott took over on their own 21.
Johnston went back to pass on first down, ...
- More Anger Expressed On Road By Drivers
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- Dr. Sandra B. Nichols, Director
Arkansas Department of Health "Road Rage is something that can be controlled. For some reason, people feel that they need to retaliate when they are on the freeway. They get more mad in their cars that ...
- Deaths, Funerals
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- J.W. Brown Jr.
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- J.W. Brown Jr., 80. of Sweetwater, Texas. died Sunday, October 5, 1997. in Rolling Plains Memorial Hospital.
Mr. Brown was born September 7, 1917. in Emmet. He was a retired oil field contractor, owning and operating J.W. Brown Oil Field Construc...
- Maude Elizabeth McNiel
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- Maude Elizabeth McDaniel McNiel, 73, of Georgia died October 23, 1997, in her home after a long bout with lung cancer.
Mrs. McNiel was born July 5, 1924, in Prescott to Emma Edwards and Hugh McDaniel. She was preceded in death by her siste...
- Beatrice Jewel Johnson
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- Mrs. Beatrice Jewel Johnson, 66, of Prescott died Monday, November 3, 1997, in Emmet.
Mrs. Johnson was born June 21, 1931, in Prescott to William and Bertha Holder Brown. She was a housewife and mother. She was a member of the Church of Christ. ...
- John Teeter Will Receive Special Recognition Thursday At Kiwanis Meeting
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- John W. Teeter of Prescott will receive the John Campanius Holm Award - named after the first person to gather weather information in colonial America - on Thursday November 6 at 12 noon at Wolves Drive-In during the Kiwanis Club meeting.
The pr...
- Local Youth Is Finalist In Arkansas Talent Search
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- Kenneth Wiley Jr., along with 13 others, will be competing in the Arkansas Talent Search finals November 9 in Little Rock.
He is a freshman at Prescott High School, where he is an honor student. He plays saxophone in the PHS band. He is the 14-ye...
- Biddle Is Essay Winner
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- Sara Biddle, a sixth grade winner of an essay contest at Nevada Elementary, shows her sphinx that she did as a social studies project. The students also did an essay on the Great Pyramids. Hers was the winning essay. It follows.
This is a report...
- Early Spring Registration
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- Early course selection for the spring semester in 1998 at Henderson State University will begin Thursday, November 6.
It is necessary that undergraduate students observe the following registration schedule according to their total number of hours...
- Santa Program To Begin Soon
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- Arkansas Department of Human Services (ADHS) has begun its foster Santa program through Nevada County Children and Family Services.
This program provides Christmas gifts for foster children in the county, according to ADHS. The agency is a...
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