Piggott School Board met in special session on Thursday, April 28 to discuss resignations and new hires. All board members were present and waived the reading of the minutes of the regular meeting held April 12, until the next regularly scheduled meeting.
Rex Nelson, senior editor and a favorite columnist with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, provided a capsule history of Arkansas in decades of troubling times with a bright look to the future. He is a much-acclaimed speaker and promoter for Arkansas and is tied to just about every section of the state because he makes friends everywhere he visits. Hailing from Arkadelphia, “he’s been everywhere, man.”
As guest speaker Arkansas Democrat-Gazette favorite columnist and senior editor Rex Nelson concluded his remarks at the Rector Area Chamber of Commerce banquet Thursday night he said, “My remarks are intended to encourage people. Tonight, however, you have encouraged me. This crowd of people who make things happen in Rector has infused me with all those things that make me optimistic about small towns in Arkansas, and Arkansas as a whole.”