Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Here are the stories in the Wednesday, February 8, 2006 edition of Nevada County Picayune

Chace ends in arrest

PRESCOTT  A three-week-old baby girl is OK following a fight between her parents at Travel America Truck Stop in Prescott Thursday night that led to a high-speed chase which ended in Hempstead County. According to Prescott Police Chief Brian Russell, J...

School facilities addressed

There are two phases to the proposed facilities master plan for the Prescott School District. These plans were discussed at a special meeting held Thursday, Feb. 2, at Prescott High School. The plans are required under new laws stemming from the Arkansa...

Healthy discussion held at Grandview session

COLUMBUS  Area residents involved in health care, in one way or another, gathered at the Grandview Plantation Friday to talk about public health. Edie Greenwood, with the Nevada County Health Unit, said this was an important endeavor for the state and ...

Rain finally arrives

Yes, there was weather during January, as 4.47 inches of rain was recorded in Prescott. Phil McAdams, local weather watcher, said this amount is above normal for January, but is less than the amount received in January 2005, which was 4.87 inches. Davi...

Nominations are sought; scholarship aps ready

Nominations are being sought for Citizen of the Year for the annual Chamber Banquet. Mary Godwin, executive director of the Prescott-Nevada County Chamber of Commerce, said the banquet will be held in March this year, but no firm date has been set. The...

Roy Hodges

Mr. Roy Don Hodges, 53, of Laneburg, died Monday, January 30, 2006, in Wadley Regional Medical Center in Texarkana, Texas. He was born on January 6, 1953, in Portales, New Mexico, to Jack W. and Estella Gray Hodges. He was maintenance supervisor with P...

Leonard Wesson

Leonard M. Wesson, 85, of Vienna, Ill., formerly of Prescott, died Tuesday morning, January 31, 2006, at 2:19 a.m. at the Heartland Regional Medical Center in Marion, Ill. He was born June 5, 1920, in Chidester. He was the son of William Albert W.A. W...

Ronald Headley

Mr. Ronald Lee Headley, 62, of Prescott, died Wednesday, January 25, 2006, in Medical Park Hospital in Hope. He was born on June 19, 1943, in Vicksburg, Mich., to Robert Lee and Martha Sylvia Headley. He was disabled. He was a Baptist. He was preceded...

Barbara Vittitow

Mrs. Barbara Vittitow, 77, of Tyler, Texas, passed away Wednesday, February 1, 2006, in Carrollton, Texas. Barbara was born May 12, 1928, in Prescott. She was a Methodist and has lived in the Tyler area most of her life. Mrs. Vittitow was a floral desig...

Dustin Harris

Dustin Miller Harris, 13, of Cabot, died February 2, 2006. He was born May 20, 1992, to Jerry Harris and Lisa Whittington Beebe in Hope, Arkansas. Dustin was a member at Cabot United Methodist Church, a student at Cabot Junior High North where he was on...

Tommie Hays

Tommie Benton Hays, 77 of Arkadelphia died Sunday, Feb. 5, 2006 at St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center in Little Rock. He was born Nov. 3, 1928, at Black Springs, in Montgomery County, the son of General Lee Hays and Virgie May Crain Hays. He was a ret...