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Here are the stories in the Wednesday, June 8, 2005 edition of Gurdon Times

Gurdon ISO fire rating goes down
A federal report came in on May 19 indicating that the ISO property/fire insurance rating for Gurdon has gone down from a "7" to a "5." Fire Chief Jake McBride, who has been chief here over the Gurdon Volunteer Fire Department for about 15 years, said ge...
Crews complete caboose relocatin for park playhouse
With the end of school on May 27, Gurdon street workers got serious about one of the mayor's play projects for children  the revitalization of the city caboose in the form of a playhouse at the park. The track went down first, with Union Pacific moving t...
Friends plan benefit for cancer victim
The bottom portion of the left leg femur bone will have to be replaced because of a cancerous tumor in a 24-year-old local youth pastor. Marc Crawley, who is employed at Sexton Grocery in Prescott as a meat cutter, is a Gurdon native and 1998 GHS graduate...
Police apprehend stabbing suspect
The Gurdon Police Department was scheduled to receive a "badly needed" new Ford Crown Victoria police car, as of Friday, June 3. Tambra Childres, recorder and treasurer, said the police department has been operating with one car for the past few weeks bec...
William Sanford
William "Sonny" Sanford, 71, of Arkadelphia, died on Sunday, May 29, 2005, at St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital in Hot Springs. Sonny was a retired hardwood lumber inspector for Anthony Timberlands, a member of Beech Street Baptist Church in Gurdon, a Navy vete...
Peggy Schee
Peggy Anne Schee, 46, of Gurdon, died Friday, May 20, 2005. She was born on Sept. 14, 1958, the daughter of the late Clarence Homer "Shorty," and Edna Mae Wilson Easley. She was an employee of the South Fork Truck Stop and a member of the Sycamore Baptist...

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