The Black River Technical College Board of Trustees will hold a special meeting at 2 p.m., Thursday, April 27 in the Pocahontas Room of the Richard Gaines Business and Technology Building at the BRTC Pocahontas location. Three committees will meet. No action will be taken at the meeting.
The Wings of Honor WWII Museum in Walnut Ridge will begin a walk through history series, “Their Stories,” on Thursday evening, April 27. Ron Lanoue of Little Rock will open the series by sharing the military accomplishments of his father, Roland Joseph Lanoue, who received his basic flight training at Walnut Ridge in World War II.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that agricultural producers and private landowners can begin signing up for the Grassland Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) starting today and running through May 26, 2023. Among CRP enrollment opportunities, Grassland CRP is a unique working lands program, allowing producers and landowners to continue grazing and haying practices while conserving grasslands and promoting plant and animal biodiversity as well as healthier soil.
The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center (HPMEC) in Piggott has announced its 2023 writer-in-residence. Matthew Pitt of Fort Worth will serve in this role from June 1-30, according to Dr.
The Clay County Sheriff’s Department reports on Monday, April 10, 2023, they received a 911 call from a cleaning service about a vacant residence being broken into on Highway 90 close to Holly Island. The suspects that broke into the residence reportedly hit the front of the vehicle belonging to the people that were cleaning the house as they were leaving the property trying to get back to the highway. Before the Sheriff’s Department arrived, the suspects turned around and tried to tell the people cleaning that they had permission to get the property they were leaving with. The suspect’s statement did not check out. The suspects had a refrigerator and two air conditioners in the back of their truck that was taken from the vacant residence.
A Night with the Chamber Stars entertained a packed house at the Crockett Multipurpose Room on Thursday, April 13, inside the Rector Community Center. Awards and recognition to the town’s businesses and volunteers, students, and Chamber members created the theme, Chamber Stars.
Every ball field at Jeremy McDaniel Memorial Sports Complex was filled. Little t-ball teams, coach-pitch ball players along with their moms, dads, grandparents, siblings, and friends filled the stands. Other fans set up lawn chairs and playpens for the babies. Cheers, applause, mom’s yelling “run!” and coaches hollering above the fray to give instructions on base running and where to throw the ball played louder than any cheers on the high school Cougar and Lady Cougar fields.
1983 Mayor George Cook accepted a check for $20,000 from Sheldon Settlemoir, Piggott Health Care Facilities Board Chairman. The hospital was able to repay a $20,000 advance made to Piggott Community Hospital for beginning operations in 1979.