September 2025
Record participants support Helping Hands 5K
Reasons for the superior turnout for the Rector Helping Hands Foundation 5K are numerous starting with fabulous weather with a great breeze and high temperatures hovering in the low 80’s. Record participants numbered close to 250 with actual runners and walkers crossing the Stearns Timing Pad registering at 239.
Scenes from the Clay County Fair Parade
Scenes from the Clay County Fair Parade
2025 Clay County Fair Pageant Winners
2025 Clay County Fair Pageant Winners
Personnel among topics at Rector School Board
Principal Mark Manchester informed the Board of Education at the recent meeting that the special work of the teachers over the past academic year brought higher achievement and valued growth to the classrooms. Principal Nate Henderson spoke to the same idea as “One Skill, One School” will be implemented this school year.
GED program offered, open house set Thursday in Piggott
Going “back to school” does not mean what it once meant. The phrase does not need to strike terror in the heart of a person who met with trouble, trauma, or other roadblocks while attending conventional public school in quest of a high school diploma. Unless a person has experienced setbacks, trauma, or academic difficulties unaddressed by traditional studies, he/she cannot possibly know the reluctance a person feels when confronted with “going back to school.”
