The Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View will host nine music events at the park’s 1,000seat indoor music venue, Ozark Highlands Theater, during their upcoming season April 2 - October 26. Evening concerts, music contests and festivals will feature top talent from the Ozarks and beyond, including award-winning songwriters, bands and dancers.
When I was growing up in the early 1980s, we had a weekly newspaper in our town. There was a woman assigned to cover our little neighborhood. I remember her calling each week to ask my mother what was new in our family. Did Jeremy make the honor roll this quarter? Had we gone on vacation recently? Did we get a new pet? She would take this information from anyone in the neighborhood who was willing to share it and would write a column each week. When the paper came out on Wednesdays, my mother was always excited to read what was going on in the neighborhood. Everyone on our street knew each other. We played outside with the kids every day until dusk. My parents were in a bowling league with our neighbors. We had a block party in the street in the summer. When a new family moved in everyone welcomed them and introduced themselves. I guess you could say it was a great community.
Early voting for the 2024 Preferential Primary is underway at the Piggott and Corning Community Centers. Voting hours will be 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. Saturday, Feb. 24 and Saturday, March 2 voting hours will be 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Early voting ends at 5 p.m. on Monday, March 4.
The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center is pleased to announce its 2024 writer-inresidence position. The residency will be for June 1-30, 2024, and includes lodging at a beautiful loft apartment on the downtown square in Piggott over the City Market coffee shop.
When the audience knows all the songs and spontaneously sings along and claps in rhythm, it’s a great experience. That’s the comfort level Vicki Bishop created within the “intimate venue” at the Ford Room at the Rector Community Museum for Thursday’s Valentine concert. “I love this place. I like to see who I’m singing to – I like to keep an eye on you!” That’s the way the night began as she bantered with the “Good Guys,” her band, and with the friends-likefamily audience.
Routine business was conducted at the rescheduled Rector School Board meeting held Wednesday, Feb. 14 at 5 p.m.
The MFA Oil Foundation has awarded a grant to the Piggott Public Library to assist with purchasing concrete for a handicap accessible parking lot. The MFA Oil Foundation provides support to nonprofit organizations that are working to improve communities where MFAOil has a significant concentration of members and employees.
The City of Rector will host the Ryan Rogers Memorial Cook-off and Supper on Saturday, Feb. 24, doors opening to the Rector Community Center at 6 p.m.
RHS Junior High FBLA members attended the District II Spring Conference held in Pocahontas, Friday, Feb. 9. Members were presented awards for placing in the top five of their competitive events, heard from keynote speaker, Miss Arkansas Cori Keller, and networked with other local members.
In last week’s article on Will Jett seeking a seat on the Piggott School Board it inadvertently stated he was seeking Position #5 and should have been Position #3. We apologize for this error.