Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Here are the stories in the Wednesday, February 22, 2006 edition of Nevada County Picayune

Mary DeVenney

Mrs. Mary Lou DeVenney, 72 of Hope, died Sunday, February 12, 2006, at her home. She was born on February 1, 1934, in Hope, to Kenny and Cletis Miller Easterling. She was a retired security guard for the former Meyers Baker of Hope. She was a Baptist. ...

James Taylor

Mr. James Earl Taylor, 24, of Fulton, died Friday, February 10, 2006, in an auto accident west of Hope. He was born in Little Rock on January 25, 1982, to Jimmy Taylor and Janie Y. Caton Houch. He was a construction worker. His survivors include: his w...

Ola Zepka

Mrs. Ola Mae Sewell Zepka, 80, of Akron, Ohio (formerly of the Sweet Home Community), passed away Tuesday, February 14, 2006, in Ohio. She was born in Prescott to John and Betty Sewell. She was a retired secretary from the University of Akron. She was a...

Paul Cross

Mr. Paul Hubert Cross, 79, of Prescott, died Saturday, February 18, 2006, at his home. He was born on February 26, 1926, in Nevada County to Ruel Henry Miles Cross and Effie Estelle Stovall Cross. He was a logger for Dewayne Lee Logging Co. He was a non...

Nickie Light

Mrs. Nickie Jo Light, 60, of Hope, died Saturday, February 18, 2006, at her home. She was born on August 2, 1945, in Hope to G.W. and Alice Marie Crane Cleaver. She was a homemaker. She was a member of Prescott Church of Christ. She was preceded in de...

Catherine Roush

Mrs. Catherine Jo Roush, 80, of Prescott, died Thursday, February 16, 2006, at Medical Park Hospital in Hope. She was born on May 17, 1925, in Douglas, Wyoming, to Charles J. and Merle Blakeman Saul. She was a director of Mary Kay Cosmetics. She was a ...

Health Alliance gears up for Children's Week

Childrens Week will be April 3-7 this year, with plenty of activities for children to keep them busy. Lynn Johnson spoke on this at the monthly meeting of the Prescott-Nevada County Health Alliance, Friday, Feb. 10. She said the T-shirts this year wil...

Logo contest underway

Got an idea for a new logo for the City of Prescott. If so, it could mean a $50 gift certificate to some lucky person. The Prescott-Nevada County Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring the City of Prescott Logo Contest. The citys current logo is City of P...

Holleman replaces husband as JP on Quorum Court

Carolyn Holleman will replace her husband on the Nevada County Quorum Court. At the Courts February meeting, Nevada County Judge James Roy Brown informed the panel he had received notice a letter would be coming from the governors office concerning th...

Fair Association sets rental rates for buildings

Rental rates for the buildings at the Nevada County Fairgrounds were discussed and approved. Mary Godwin, executive director of the Prescott-Nevada County Chamber of Commerce, told the Association, at its regular monthly meeting Monday, Feb. 13, she had...

Cutting other's timber costly to McGough

Sometimes being a do-it-yourselfer can be a bad thing. Such was the case in small claimer court Wednesday, Feb. 15, as Bobby McGough was found guilty of cutting someone elses timber and ordered to pay $5,000 and court costs. The property in question w...