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Here are the stories in the Wednesday, April 5, 2006 edition of Nevada County Picayune

Wendy Ledbetter
Terrorists Strike Prescott By Wendy Ledbetter Prescott residents turned out in force to support their local troops, a fact that wasnt lost on the Guardsmen who were involved in a hostage retrieval drill Saturday, April 1. The event took place on the g...
Nothing good can come from underage drinking
BY JOHN MILLER Nothing good can come from underage drinking. This was one of the messages given at a town meeting on underage drinking Tuesday, March 28, at the Prescott High School auditorium. Joyce Gibson, co-president of the Prescott-Nevada County H...
Rogers Named Famikly Consumer Science Agent
After more than a year, there is a new Family and Consumer Science Agent with the Nevada County Extension Service. Amanda Rogers joined Rex Dollar and Dianne Wolfe on March 15. Rogers hails from Arkadelphia, having graduated from Henderson State Universi...
Ledbetter joins staff
Ledbetter named Editor Wendy Ledbetter has taken over the editors position at the Nevada County Picayune, effective this week. Former editor John Miller left the Picayune as of March 31. Miller will become the new editor at Nashville. Ledbetter has wo...
Board hears technical plans, approves trips for coaches
An underage drinking program led to an abbreviated meeting of the Prescott School Board Tuesday, March 28. With the program scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Prescott High School Auditorium, there were no reports from the Prescott Elementary School, McRae Mid...
'Terrorists' hold hostage exercises
Terrorists hold reporter hostage There were many Prescott residents who seemed to know what was happening Saturday, April 1, when Guardsmen from the Alpha Company descended on Prescott - quite literally - from the air. Two Huey helicopters landed at th...
District Court charges filed
District Court was filled with charges of failure to appear and failure to comply, along with a number of driving while intoxicated cases. Municipal Judge Gene Hale began, as he tends to do, with the DWI charges, with four people coming before him. Two e...
Van Malcolm
Van A. Malcom, 93, of Okolona, died Monday, March 27, 2006, at the Baptist Medical Center in Arkadelphia. He was born Feb. 14, 1913, in Okolona the son of the late Charlie and Irene Buchannon Malcom. He was a retired rural letter carrier, a farmer and a ...
Larry Taylor
Larry Taylor, 49, of Rogers, died March 25, 2006, at St. Marys Hospital. He was born December 16, 1956, in Arkadelphia to Arnie Lawrence Taylor and Wanda Massey Taylor. He was a teacher in the Rogers public school system and a member of the Sounds of J...
Herbert Gentry
Herbert C. Gentry, 79, of Mt. Morris, Mich., formerly of Antoine, was called home by the Lord on Monday, March 27, 2006 at McLaren Regional Medical Center in Flint, Mich. He was born on September 2, 1926 in Antoine to Richard and Caldonnia Gentry. He w...
George Abel
George Abel, 91, of Hope, formerly of Prescott, died Sunday, April, 2, 2006 at Christus St. Micheal Health System, Texarkanas, Tx. He was born on February 6, 1915 in Diluth, Minn. to Charles and Hannah Abel. He was a retired Forrester. He was of the P...
Glendon Moses
Mr. Glendon Elgin Mos Moses, 81, of Hope died Thursday, March 30, 2006 at his home. He was born on July 22, 1924 in Hempstead County to Elgin and Lolia S. Sinyard Moses. He was retired from Exxon Oil Refinery in Baytown, Tx. and a randcher and poultry ...
Local Guardsmen 'rain down' on Prescott
There were many Prescott residents who seemed to know what was happening Saturday, April 1, when Guardsmen from the Alpha Company descended on Prescott - quite literally - from the air. Two Huey helicopters landed at the Tom B. Lee Jr. Arkansas National G...

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