Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Here are the stories in the Wednesday, October 6, 2004 edition of Nevada County Picayune

Travis Mitchell Jr.

Travis Ray "Bubba" Mitchell, Jr., of Texarkana, Texas, died September 23, 2004, from injuries received in an automobile accident. Mr. Mitchell was born May 29, 1971 in Paris, Texas. Travis was a graduate from Arkansas High School June 8, 1989. He was empl...

Christine Sutton

Christine Sutton, 69, of Little Rock, passed away September 28, 2004, at Southwest Hospital in Little Rock. She was preceded in death by her father, Lewis Hastings, and two brothers, Floyd Hastings and Lloyd Hastings. She is survived by her husband, Orv...

Students meeting requirements in district

Hyacinth Deon, superintendent of the Prescott School District opened the public school meeting Tuesday, Sept. 21. By law, she said, these meetings must be held every year to inform parents and patrons of how things are going in the district. Deon had a Po...

Wolves come up short at Nashville

Ugly is about the best way to describe the Prescott-Nashville game. The Scrappers remained undefeated with a 48-21 victory over the Curley Wolves. Nashville also won the inaugural Highway 371 Classic football trophy. This is a new traveling trophy for the...

Entire PPC resigns

An en masse resignation occurred with the Prescott School District's Personnel Policy Committee. A letter dated Tuesday, Sept. 28, from each member of the committee detailed the reason for the mass resignation. The letter reads, in part: "We appreciate th...

Table Topper rescheduled to Nov. 6

Plans are in the works for the Artesian Arts League's Sixth Annual Table Topper. This year's theme is "Fall into ...." Lunch will be served to the guests and there will be entertainment. At this point, Katherine Crain, chairman of the event, is trying to ...

413 enrolled at PES, public told

There are 413 students enrolled at Prescott Elementary School in grades K-4. PES Principal Janet Gordon gave the Prescott School Board a breakdown of how many are in which grade at the Board's annual public meeting in September. There are 90 children in k...

Federal programs detailed at district's public meeting

Kathie Janes, federal program coordinator with the Prescott School District, said the state has changed the requirement for its Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). Now, she said, there must be 25 students for a district to have a subgroup. This information wa...