Stories from Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Anticipation continues to run high throughout the entire community as the stage is set for a performance of epic proportions. Several of today's most popular gospel artists are on their way to Rector for a special concert to benefit the Rector High School Helping Hands Foundation. ...

A Rector home was heavily damaged in an early morning fire Monday, July 21. Firefighters were called to the home of Ellen Carter at 215 West Second Street at 2:30 a.m. when a neighbor called 911. The unnamed neighbor told the emergency operator fire was visible in the back bedroom of Carter's house...

When new jobs come to northeast Arkansas, there is potential for smaller communities in the region, such as Rector, to benefit from the growth. This is the hope of newly-hired business/industrial specialist Jacinda Welch concerning a recent plan to bring new jobs to the Jonesboro area...

The Clay County Quorum Court met Monday night, July 21, with representatives of the state circuit judges' office in an effort to ensure the county continues to make available the necessary juvenile services...

Elma Mae (Morrow) Taylor, 96, of Pocahontas, formerly of Rector, died Friday, July 18, 2008, at Pocahontas Healthcare and Rehab Center. Born Sept. 16, 1911, in Boydsville, she was a homemaker, a dedicated member of the Boydsville Extension Homemakers Club and a member of Salem Missionary Baptist Church since 1923...

We heard a local resident the other day make an unfavorable comment on the relative merits of Rector now as compared to 30 years ago. In light of the fact that our annual progress edition runs this week, we thought it might be appropriate to take a look at that specific question...

Life is not the same. The paraphernalia is different too. I realized that last night when I was taking my blood pressure with my new blood pressure monitor. Seems I am collecting gadgets that are associated with aging. And so are many of my friends...

A celestial phenomenon that occurs at about the time of midsummer is the prominence of Sirius, the Dog Star. The so-called 'dog days" bring practically undiluted misery of heat, humidity, and a sense of lassitude, verging on plumb laziness. ...

Bill Dooley of Rector lived a golfer's dream last Friday, sinking a much-coveted hole-in-one at Thunder Bayou in Blytheville. Dooley performed the feat on the course's third hole. He sent his ball 132 yards on the par three hole, using his trusty eight iron...