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Here are the stories in the Wednesday, August 20, 2008 edition of Nevada County Picayune

JPs table request for curfew, call for input
Nevada County could be under a curfew in coming months. The issue arose during the regular August meeting of the Nevada County Quorum Court when Nevada County Deputy Prosecutor Dana Stone addressed the justices of the peace. Its come to our attention th...
County landfill implements tipping fees
With two members of the Nevada County Quorum Court absent, justices of the peace voted to implement a fee for dumping at the Nevada County Landfill, effective immediately. Nevada County Judge Baker Butler said a contractor who dumped several large loads o...
Ralph Stewart
Mr. Ralph Edward Stewart, 80, of Prescott, died Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008, at St. Josephs Mercy Health Center in Hot Springs, after a short illness. He was born on May 1, 1928, in Nevada County, to Robert Kelso and Josephine Tubb Stewart. He worked on his fa...
John (Pop) Basham Jr.
John F. (Pop) Basham Jr., 81, of Taylor, died Aug. 13, 2008, in Shreveport. John was born May 29, 1927, in Watson, Oklahoma. He was co-owner and Vice President of B&S Hardwood, Inc. in Gibsland. He was preceded in death by his parents, John and Ann Basham...
Margie Atkinson
Mrs. Margie Atkinson, 62, of Rosston, died Saturday, Aug. 2, 2008, at Medical Park Hospital in Hope. Margie was born on Dec. 8, 1945, in Nevada County and was the tenth child of Bill and Esther Hicks Green. She was a retired beautician. She was a Baptist....
Elizabeth Haynie
Mrs. Elizabeth Haynie, 91, of Prescott, died Saturday, Aug. 16, 2008 at Medical Park Hospital in Hope. The funeral arrangements are incomplete at this time, but will be announced by Brazzle/Cornish Funeral Home of Prescott.
Gladys Memie Merrell
Mrs. Gladys Mae Memie Merrell, 98, of Emmet, died Saturday, Aug. 16, 2008, in Crossett. The funeral arrangements are incomplete at this time, but will be announced by Brazzel/Oakcrest Funeral Home of Hope.
Lawanda Blount
Mrs. Lawanda J. Norton Haddix Blount, 70, of Baton Rouge, La., formerly of Hope. She died Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008, in Mercy Hospital in Baton Rouge, La. She was born on May 13, 1938, in Nash, Texas, to Marvin and Maudie Norton. She was preceded in death ...
Elsie Green
Elsie Laverne Green, 69, of Bluff City, died Sunday, Aug. 17, 2008. She was a member of the Bluff City Church of Christ, a city council member and active in Bluff City Helping Hands. She was preceded in death by her parents, Robert Lee Bob and Winnie He...

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