Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Here are the stories in the Wednesday, March 16, 2005 edition of Gurdon Times

City receives $35,000 walking trail grant

Mayor Clayton Franklin received notification Thursday morning that Gurdon has been approved for a $35,000 walking trail grant from Arkansas Parks and Tourism. Franklin said work to get a grant to improve a quarter of a mile path behind the primary school,...

Six juniors leave for Close-Up trip

Six Gurdon High School juniors will board an airplane for Washington, D.C., Sunday morning, March 13, from the Little Rock Airport. They will be the 2005 Close-up crew from Gurdon, and they are scheduled to return from their adventure at 11 a.m. on Saturd...

City improves park, plans to move caboose

The City of Gurdon has set aside $1,500 to pay for minor improvements at the city park on Highway 67, and will also move a caboose to the park for area children to have a playhouse. Mayor Clayton Franklin said Thursday, "We have hired Ricky Shelton to do ...

Senior Center continues commodity distribution

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Commodities program has been going on at the Central Arkansas Development Committee (CADC) Senior Adult Center in Gurdon for many years and it continues to grow. Royce Barbaree, Center director, said...

Train derailment dumps wood

Gurdon police reported a train derailment on Tuesday between the intersections of South and Miller Streets. Police Officer Garry Marshall said Union Pacific Railroad workers told him there were no injuries in the incident, but four boxcars were overturned...

Chamber builds web site

Chamber of Commerce members voted Tuesday to launch a web site on the Internet called: Gurdonchamberofcommerce.com and hopes to get members to sponsor the site. Jon Capps has been working on getting it ready for publication and agreed to activate the Cham...

Peggy Louviere

Peggy Louviere, 61, died Wednesday, March 2, 2005, at her residence in Okolona. She was the daughter of Freddie John Louviere and Eunice Gachassin Louviere, born Sept. 12, 1943, in New Iberia, Louisiana. She is survived by: her husband, Errol James Marie ...