Stories from Thursday, May 24, 2012

The combination of months of planning and the efforts of dozens of volunteers will culminate this weekend with the 14th annual Piggott Heritage Park Car Show and Cruise. The three-day car show is sponsored each year by the Piggott Area Chamber of Commerce and has become one of the most popular such events in the region...

Members of the Piggott High School Class of 2012 said goodbye to high school life in commencement exercises held at 7 p.m. Friday, May 11, at the PHS gymnasium. Graduates entered to the strains of Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance," performed by the PHS Band...

The Rector High School gymnasium bustled with excitement Sunday afternoon, May 13, as a large crowd of proud parents, grandparents and special friends gathered to recognize the class of 2011-2012 and its accomplishments. Principal Wade Williams welcomed the crowd and wished a "Happy Mother's Day" to all of the mothers and grandmothers in attendance...

Joey Pruett knows a lot of people. And a lot of people know him. That's because he seems to be everywhere -- and he is always at work, either using his varied musical talents, doing production work related to music or volunteering in numerous ways to help his church, community, friends -- or just anyone else who might need a hand...

Despite a late afternoon downpour, the 14th annual Piggott Heritage Park Car Show drew a large crowd Saturday, and by day's end, over $1,700 in cash prizes and over $400 in trophies were awarded. "We're still working out all the numbers," noted 2012 co-chair Tim Blair. ...

The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center in Piggott hosted its 13th annual Celebration of Quilting on Saturday, May 19, with 83 quilt entries from all across Northeast Arkansas and Southeast Missouri. Event coordinator, museum staff member Johnna Redman, said of this year's event, "We had more different and new types of quilts than ever before, and we also had more quilt entries from the 1920's and 30's than we have ever had before."...

During the regular meeting of the Piggott School Board on Monday night, May 21, the board approved the hiring of David Reynolds as boys basketball coach. In other hiring decisions, Katina Wilson was reassigned as elementary secretary and Pam Morgan was transferred into the position of elementary librarian...