Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Here are the stories in the Wednesday, January 3, 2007 edition of Gurdon Times

Motions filed in local drug cases

Motions for discovery have been filed on behalf of Clyde Jerome Williams, 32, of 111 Sticky Road, and Wesley Buford, 28, of 203 Magnolia St., after the two men were arrested on charges relating to drugs and firearms in early December. According to documen...

Forgery charges filed against Gurdon men

Forgery charges stemming from separate incidents have been filed in Clark County Circuit Court against two Gurdon men. Jonathan Stanley Newburn, 21, of 4055 Highway 67 S., was charged with second degree forgery after allegedly writing a check from a stole...

Two collide on Main Street

No one was seriously injured in a two vehicle accident on Main Street on Thursday, Dec. 28. According to a report on file at the Gurdon Police Department, Mary Glover, 69, of 3539 Kansas Road, told police that she had been parked along Main Street in fro...

Neighbors dispute over alleged theft of water

Two Gurdon women will now have to appear before a judge after a dispute that began with the alleged theft of water and ended with the alleged brandishing of a handgun. According to a police report on file at the Gurdon Police Department, officers were cal...

Looking back on 2006

A lot happened in and around Gurdon in 2006: one of the towns biggest retail stores burned and later re-opened, the Go-Devils had an exciting football season which landed them in the state play-offs, the city park received a make-over and a school resour...

The view from Wendy's World

Its that time of year - when the calender page turns to a new year and most folks find themselves thinking of turning over a whole pile of new leaves. I took a few minutes out of my day to research New Years resolutions and then took a few more minutes...

Rehkopf's buys Sextons

Rehkopfs Family Foods has purchased Sexton Foods, Prescotts only grocery store. The transfer took place at the end of the day, Dec. 28. Ron Rehkopf was at the store the morning of Dec. 29 and said customers will see some changes. One of those will be t...

Loyd Bear

Loyd E. Bear, 76, of Benton, formerly of Gurdon, died Saturday, Dec. 23, 2006. He was an employee of Arkla Gas, a member of Second Baptist Church in Little Rock and a Veteran of the United States Air Force. Survivors include one son, Mark Bear of Oakm...

Timothy W. Downs

Timothy Wayne Downs, 50, of Camden, died Sunday, Dec. 24, 2006, at his home. He was born Nov. 17, 1956, in Little Rock, the son of Bobby and Jacqueline Green Downs. Tim was a graduate of Gurdon High School, a heavy equipment operator, a member of the Met...

Billy V. McClure

Billy Vester McClure, 62, of Gurdon, died Dec. 24, 2006, at Baptist Health Medical Center-Arkadelphia. He was born May 8, 1944, in Vaden, the son of the late John and Gertie Hammonds McClure. He was retired from International Paper Co. and a member of Be...