Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Here are the stories in the Wednesday, January 23, 2002 edition of Nevada County Picayune

Agnes Gourley

Agnes Ruth Gourley, 92, of Prescott, died Tuesday, January 15, 2002, at Medical Park Hospital in Hope. Gourley was born May 4, 1909, in Marion, Illinois, to Frank and Zora Buie McGlone. She was a retired nurse and a member of the Central Baptist Church...

Dorothy Gee

Dorothy Jones Gee, 95, of Prescott, passed away on January 14, 2002, in Clifton, Texas. Gee was born July 24, 1906, in Little Rock to William Snyder and Abigail Annette Hilliard Jones, formerly of Prescott. She graduated from Prescott High School and m...

Narvelle Carlton

Narvelle Carlton, 70, of Bodcaw, died January 17, 2002, at her residence. She was a homemaker and a member of Union Baptist Church. She was born April 5, 1931, in Willisville to Lee and Ethel Marlar Waters. She was preceded in death by her parents, a...

Nichols riding from Alamo to Ground Zero

Everyone was affected differently because of the attacks on Sept. 11. Leslie Nichols, a 41-year-old horse trainer from Celeste, Texas, was stirred to ride from the Alamo to Ground Zero on horseback, trying to raise money for the New York Firefighter Di...

"Next Step" a mixed blessing

Will Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee's "Next Step" program be good or bad for the state's education system? According to Rick McAfee, superintendent of the Nevada School District, the program could easily be both, depending on how much of the governor'...

Library funding up in the air

Questions were raised on how to adequately fund the Nevada County Library, at the regular meeting of the Nevada County Quorum Court. Nevada County Judge James Roy Brown told the court he had met with librarian Joyce Gibson, and the two of them had come ...

EDO grants total $9 million

There was plenty of good news in the Prescott-Nevada County Economic Development Office's annual report. Jon Chadwell, executive director of the EDO, told members of the Nevada County Quorum Court, at its regular monthly meeting, Monday, Jan. 14, the Ne...

Maps show district borders

School districts across the state recently received maps showing their exact boundaries. The maps were provided by the Secretary of State's Office, said Rick McAfee, superintendent of the Nevada School District, during the regular monthly meeting of the...