The Black River Technical College Board of Trustees will hold a special meeting at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, March 16 in the Richard Gaines Technology Building conference room at the BRTC Pocahontas location. The meeting will be held to discuss the BRTC fees structure and a resolution to recognize new additional instructional sites.
United Auto Workers retirees will meet at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, March.
Eligible single parents are invited to apply for summer 2023 scholarships at aspsf.org/applynow. The deadline to apply is March 15.
Three Rivers College is offering five free training programs this summer to help recent high school graduates get valuable skills for a great start in life. The Project Drive (Direct Rural Initiative Vying for Employment) federal grant offers free training to give high school graduates a great start in life.
Three Rivers and Center Stage will present “Cinderella” at 7 p.m. March 3, 4, 10, and 11, and at 2 p.m.
Allison Howell, Clay County ExtensionAgent, was recently selected for the Arkansas County Agriculture Agents Association (ACAAA) Spotlight. Howell was asked specific questions about herself and below are her responses.
The Clay County Sheriff’s Department reported on Monday, Feb. 20, 2023, at 3:45 p.m. a deputy received a call that an individual had photographs of trespassers on their property. The caller’s residence is approximately three miles west of St. Francis and four miles north of Piggott. A deputy was en route to the residence and met the vehicle that was photographed at the location. The deputy turned around and stopped the vehicle traveling southbound on 4th Street in Piggott. The deputy made contact with the driver, Kathy Newman, a 57-year old female of Paragould and the passenger, John K. Holmes, a 65-year-old male of Paragould.
On Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023, the Clay County Sheriff’s Department reported receiving a call at 7:58 a.m. of a deceased person by the river levee close to the bridge off Highway 90. Upon arrival, workers reported they found a vehicle with a body lying beside the car. The deceased person was Randolph Rodewald, 83-year-old male from Denver, Colo. Rodewald was reported missing on Tuesday morn-ing at the Denver Police Department. In suspicion, the subject got disoriented and went north down the levee about one mile and pulled off in a field and got stuck, and was unable to get himself free. He then got out of the vehicle and fell into a mud puddle beside the car and was unable to get up. Clay County Coroner was on the scene and no foul play was suspected. The body was sent to the Arkansas Crime Lab in Little Rock.
The Clay County Sheriff’s Department reported on Feb. 23, 2023, at 4:50 p.m. the department arrested 56-year-old Danny Cobb of Success, and 53-year-old James Cobb of Success, on felony warrants out of Butler County MO. The Sheriff’s Department had received the information they were at their mother’s house in Success, Ark. The officer found at the time of the arrest felony drug paraphernalia on Danny Cobb. The Butler County warrants were for two warrants on Danny Cobb for failure to appear for controlled substance and possession of a dangerous drug with intent to deliver. James Cobb was arrested for possession of the controlled substance meth. Both subjects were transported to Greene County Sheriff’s Department waiting for extradition out of Butler County Sheriff’s Department Missouri.