- GPD Running Out Of Money For Salaries
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- By JOHN MILLER
There is about $23,000 left in the Gurdon Police Department budget for salaries for the remainder of the year.
However, the department has been spending about $14,000 per month to pay its officers.
This could pose a major problem f...
- Lowe Field Construction Nearly Done
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- By JOHN MILLER
Soon, Lowe Field will be down to its final phase of construction.
According to Gurdon Airport Commissioner Mary Burns, a grant for $14,800 was received from the Arkansas Department of Aeronautics to help put running lights along the ...
- Council Discusses Money Woes
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- By JOHN MILLER
Financial problems dominated the discussion of the Gurdon City Council Monday night.
Primarily the financial problems of the Gurdon Police Department.
According to Mayor Rick Smith, the department has spent 84.1 percent of its budg...
- Council Discusses Money Woes (cont)
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- ave been sent to property owners who have trash bins on the city rights of way. These residents have been asked to remove the bins from the ROWs.
The letters have been hand delivered by GPD officers, with Smith creating a spread sheet to keep track of...
- Courthouse Looks For Home
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- By JOHN MILLER
Where, oh where, will the courthouse be built. Where oh where will it be?
This is the question being asked by many residents of Clark County about the Clark County Courthouse.
Before March 1, 1997, the Clark County Quorum Court had...
- Registration Begins
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- Gurdon High School's homecoming parade will be held Friday, October 17 at 4:00 p.m. The theme this year is, `You Can't Stop the Reign.'
The parade is sponsored by the GHS Student Council.
All businesses, churches and other organizations - a...
- Rabbit Champs Named
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- The Clark County Fair held it's first "hands on" rabbit show. The judge was Gene Williams from Little Rock. Mr. Williams is a major rabbit breeder and an association member. Mr. Williams provided beautiful trophies for the Grand Champions and the Reser...
- Gurdon Disctrict Appeals Forfeit
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- By JOHN MILLER
Gurdon's 2-0 forfeit loss to Dierks has been appealed by the Gurdon School District with the Arkansas Athletic Association.
The hearing will be held Thursday, Oct. 16, at 1 o'clock in North Little Rock.
Gurdon Superintendent Bobby ...
- Gurdons Pee Wee Team 3rd
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- By JOHN MILLER
Gurdon's pee wee football team, last week, played for its finishing spot of the regular season.
The First State Bank purple team had a date, Tuesday, Oct. 7, with Arkadelphia's blue bunch. Each team had identical 2-1 records.
The g...
- Fall Planting Window Now
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- by Ron Matlock
County Agent - Staff Chairman
Cooperative Extension Service
The optimum planting window for south Arkansas is October 15 through November 15.
Rice fields can be burned and the levees smoothed for no-til...
- FLEXCAM GRANT
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- Susan Robertson from International Paper Co., below, presents a check for $10,000 to Stan Escalante, center, to purchase a flexcam camera that permits microscopic objects to be displayed on a television set. GHS Principal Leonard Gills looks on. Left: ...
- Character Ed Begins
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- Gurdon Primary School and Gurdon Middle School will begin a program with students and teachers on Monday, October 20, called Character Education.
Character Education was first developed and used in the Allen School in Dayton, Ohio. It is now bein...
- Extension Service
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- Red Springs EHC
The question, "What one thing I like about myself?" was asked by Denise Ezell, program leader for October of the Red Springs Extension Homemakers Club. Several answers were a good Christian, loving, kind, family taxi dri...
- Meeting Set
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- David Goodson of the Clark County Farm Service Agency Office will conduct a meeting on October 16 at 9:00 a.m. on the upcoming Farm Service Agency County Committee election. The meeting will be held at the Extension Homemakers Building at the Clark Cou...
- Go-Devils Thump Yellow Jackets
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- By JOHN MILLER
Friday night's game against Stamps may have been the most pivotal of the season for Gurdon.
The Go-Devils had to go on the road a week after being forced to forfeit to Dierks because the officials didn't show up for the game.
There...
- Go-Devils Thump Yellow Jackets (cont)
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- re at the 19 with :21 seconds left.
However, Gurdon's Demond Beasley ended the threat by introducing himself to Millican at the 23 as time ran out.
The game lasted two hours and two minutes, with this being two hours and two minutes too long for the...
- Classy Moments
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- From GMS
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- We find it difficult to believe that the first nine weeks will come to a close Friday, October 17. Seems only yesterday, or maybe the day before, that we started back after a long restful summer. I think all would agree that we have been busy for those...
- Change Of Season Is Perfect Time To Redo Clothes Closet
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- by Barbara A. Holt, Ph.D.
Clark County Extension Agent -
Family and Consumer Sciences
Cooperative Extension Service
The change of seasons is a perfect time to regain control of your closet. Finding what you need in a hurr...
- Three New Historic Volumes Being Offered
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- The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, is offering three new volumes in its series of historic contexts on Arkansas subjects, AHPP director Cathy Slater announced October 8.
The contexts are...
- New Phone Books To Be Delivered
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- Residents and businesses in the Arkadelphia area soon will be recieving their new Arkadelphia-Gurdon telephone directories.
Delivery of the 16,900 Arkadelphia-Gurdon telephone directories began Friday, October 10.
The telephone directories...
- Former GHS Graduate Honored For Counseling Work
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- Donald Almond, a counselor at Rison Schools since 1977 recently received an honor for his 20 year dedication. He was chosen Counselor of the year for Southeast Arkansas. In order to be nominated for this distinction, one has to be a member of the Arka...
