Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Here are the stories in the Wednesday, April 4, 2007 edition of Gurdon Times

City preping to demolish houses

It is now only a matter of time before the city of Gurdon will begin the removal of abandoned and neglected properties in the city are removed. The city now has the teeth we need to remove the properties since the Gurdon City Council approved an ordinan...

Bill Clinton visits county, gives lecture

Private citizens have more power to do public good than ever before, said former President Bill Clinton Tuesday evening. Clinton was the speaker for the Birkett Williams Lecture series at Ouachita Baptist University. The lecture was part of this week's in...

GP takes over plant

As of midnight Sunday, International Paper of Gurdon is officially Georgia-Pacific. A special sign unveiling ceremony, along with a catfish dinner, welcomed the new owners. Carmine Perri, senior vice president of operations and compliance, said the compan...

On my mind: By Jeremy Langley

So the lecture was over. I, along with about 1,500 other persons had just finished listening to the 42nd president of the United States offer a lecture at Ouachita Baptist University. Ill let you in on a little secret if I may. Im a student at Ouachita,...

Deborah Anderson

Deborah Debbie Kay Anderson, died March 27, 2007. Debbie was born on Oct. 11, 1959, the daughter of John R. and Beverly Bohme Gosney in Cincinnati, Ohio. She married Andy Anderson on May 30, 1981. She is survived by her husband; three children, Jona...

Lynette Schoonover

Lynette Patterson Schoonover joined her Lord and Savior on March 23, 2007. She was born Oct. 13, 1959, in Houston, Texas, and attended Gurdon High School. After marriage, she was a nurse for more than 20 years in the Houston area. She received a bachelor...

Rotary Club seeks water reservoir

Water consumed by customers of the Gurdon Water Department currently comes from wells, and the Gurdon Rotary Club sees this as a potential problem if the city begins to vie for industrial development. Billy Tarpley, who will become president of the club t...