Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Here are the stories in the Wednesday, July 4, 2007 edition of Nevada County Picayune

Prescott teachers in place for 07-08

The Prescott School Board has held a series of special meetings over the past month and officials say they are nearing a full slate of teachers. The majority of the business conducted during these meetings has been to approve hiring, resignations and tra...

Sheriff's Office gets K-9 officer

The Nevada County Sheriffs Office has a new officer. The K-9 has not yet been given a name for public use, but handler Robert Missey said the 6-year-old German Shepherd is ready to work. K-9 work is not new to Missey. He was the K-9 officer at a previ...

Four arrested with SKS and 20-gauge

Four Hope men were arrested June 27 after officers received a report of an on argument involving weapons at an area car wash. According to police reports, officers recovered an SKS rifle, a spent shell from that gun, and a Remington 20 gauge shotgun with...

Rotarians hear plan for Arkansas' 'good roads'

With some 16,000 miles of state highway, Arkansas is the third largest system in the nation. But the state ranks 38th in the amount of money spent to maintain and repair those roads. Those were among the statistics offered by Johnnie Bolin, director o...

Wendy's World

As I was walking down East Elm today, I noticed that there are a lot of flower boxes around that are looking particularly pretty. Ours isnt yet one of them. It seems that my problems with the flower box at the Picayune office may become a point of fac...

Emma Ferguson

Emma Lee Ferguson, 89, of El Dorado, died Monday, June 25, 2007, at her residence. She was born Jan. 22, 1918, in Nevada County. She was the daughter of Charles Matthew and Nancy Pauline Hawley McMillian. She worked for Singer Sewing Machine Company in ...

Estell Loe

Estell Loe, 97, of Rosston, died Thursday, June 28, 2007, at the Medical Park Hospital in Hope. She was born Feb. 20, 1910, in Sutton. Mrs. Loe was a homemaker and the oldest member of the Union Baptist Church. She is preceded in death by her husband,...

Thomas Garner

Thomas Cary Garner, 76, of Prescott, formerly of Channelview, Texas, died Wednesday, June 27, 2007. He was a retired Instrument Technician of Armco Steel, a veteran of the Korean War and a member of the former Grace Lutheran Church of Channelview. Mr. ...