Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Here are the stories in the Wednesday, May 31, 2006 edition of Nevada County Picayune

PS district facing financial crisis

The Prescott School Board voted in special session to approve a loan for $200,000 to complete some required improvements on the schools facilities. Citing potential problems with repaying the loan and the possibility of asking voters for a millage to fu...

Election 2006: Butler wins as new judge

The first election with the iVontronics electronic voting machines perfectly smooth, but it probably went better than many expected. Though paper ballots were still available for the May 23 primary election, many voters took the plunge and used the elec...

Otwell, Carlton in runoff

Nevada County voters will be asked to return to the polls again in June to determine who will be the countys sheriff. The May 23 primary election resulted in a runoff between incumbent Steve Otwell and challenger Bobby Carlton. According to results fr...

Haines receives soldier's medal

Never have so many owed so much to so few. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who was watching his country literally burn to the ground by non-stop German bombing raids during World War II, knew the weight of war and made that comment concernin...

Exchange student recalls the year

When Yolanda Ching arrived in Texarkana on her way to spend nine months with an exchange student host family, her thoughts were that the time was stretched ahead like an eternity. Now, with only a few days left before she returns to her home in Hong Kong...

'Miracle student' graduates, prepares for next step

Kaitlin Tye is one of the 65 graduating students of the Prescott High School class of 2006. But she and her family are likely among the most grateful for the fact that Kaitlin is walking with her classmates. Two car accidents over the past few years lef...

Election event should be bigger

Ive just covered my first election in Nevada County and I have to admit that I wasnt quite ready for the event. In this case, thats actually a good thing. Ive covered elections in a larger city where each candidate rented a building or even reserved...

J.W. Taylor

J. W. Taylor died Tuesday, May 23, 2006, at his home in Gurdon at the age of 87. Mr. Taylor was retired from Frizzells Lumber Company as a lift operator and a member of South Fork Baptist Church in Gurdon. Survivors include his wife, Vivian Wells Tayl...

James Arnett, Sr.

James Robert Arnett, Sr., 76, of Prescott, died May 23, 2006 in Texarkana, Texas. He was a retired Master Sergeant with the United States Air Force, the U.S. Postal Service and H and R Block in Prescott. He was born November 21, 1929 in Murfreesboro. H...

Bobby Hicks

Mr. Bobby Ray Hicks, 68, of the Caney Community of Prescott, passed away Wednesday, May 24, 2006, at his home. He was born on May 22, 1938, in Nevada County, to Monroe Herman and Effie Ellen Green Hicks. He was a cattle and poultry farmer. He was a memb...

Aimon Harrison

Mr. Aimon F. Bill Harrison, 77, of Patmos, passed away on Tuesday, May 23, 2006 at his home. He was born in Drew, Miss., on August 21, 1928, to Benson Charles and Francis L. Fant Harrison. He was a retired staff Sargent from the U.S. Marine Corp in Co...