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Here are the stories in the Wednesday, August 9, 2006 edition of Nevada County Picayune

Prescott robbery suspect in custody
Charges against a 17-year-old Prescott man accused in the armed robbery of two local convenience stores have not been formally filed, but the man is in custody according to information from the Prescott Police Department. The name of the man has not be...
Locals report temps above 100 degrees
The Prescott and Nevada County area ended July with less than normal rainfall. That's the information submitted at the end of the month by local weather watcher Davis Benson. According to Benson's report, the total rainfall for the year as of July 31 st...
Trade Days will continue monthly
The next Nevada County Trade Days is slated for Aug. 12. Prescott-Nevada County Chamber of Commerce Director Mary Godwin said she hopes that having the Watermelon Festival going on at the same time will be a benefit to the monthly Prescott event. Trade Da...
Easley joins Prescott department
Prescott Officer Aaron Easley joined the Prescott Police Department in July. Easley said he has been in public law enforcement for slightly more than a year, working during that time for the Nevada County Sheriff's Office. Before he began his tenure with ...
The view from Wendy's World
There are times when a very simple action can create quite a stir. The event in question wasnt a huge deal - just very puzzling. Someone walked by my car which was parked outside the office in Prescott and put a stack of clothes hangers on my antennae....
James Jernigan
James Riley Jernigan, 56, of Emmet died Saturday at his home. James was a US Army Veteran serving during the Vietnam War. Survivors include son, Jimmie Lee Tanner of Malvern; mother, Bonnie G. Sams of Prescott; sister, Bonnie Lee DeBoser of North Little...
Barbara Bobo
Barbara Joyce Bobo, 50, of Hope, died Tuesday, August 1, 2006 at Medical Park Hospital in Hope. She was born March 13, 1956 in Little Rock. She was a nurse and a member of The Anderson Baptist Church at Springhill. She was preceded in death by her fat...
Donnie Lawson
Donnie Lewis Lawson, 44, a resident of DeQueen, died Wednesday, August 2, 2006 at his home. He was born November 20, 1961 in Blevins. He was a line worker for Pilgrims Pride for 19 years. Mr. Lawson is survived by his mother, Crystal Faye Lawson of Pre...
Mary Andrews
Mary Ellen Elia (Snapper) Andrews was born to Charles and Lottie Birdwell Elia January 17, 1919, in Whelen Springs, Arkansas. Mrs. Andrews passed away August 4, 2006, at Baxter Medical Center, Mountain Home, Ark. She was a member of East Side Baptist Chu...
Elven Mcbride
Elven McBride, age 78 of Gurdon, died Saturday, Aug. 5, 2006. He was a supervisor for International Paper Co., and a member of the First Assembly of God Church in Gurdon, where he taught Sunday school and was a Sunday school superintendent and deacon o...

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