The award-winning Young Artists of the Year in Arkansas’ Country Music Award program will perform live at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 30, at the Ford Room, Rector Community Museum. Tickets for reserved, rows one through four, are priced at $20 with general admission at $10 and $5.
A candlelight prayer service for Lorelei McNabb’s return home was held at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, June 14, at the Rector Downtown Park with over 300 people in attendance. McNabb had been missing since Sunday, June 5, 2022. According to a release from the Clay County Sheriff’s Department, McNabb was found Monday, June 20, in Poplar Bluff, Mo. The Rector Police Department and Arkansas State Police returned her home to Rector later that day. PHOTO O BY JANE GATEWOOD
1982 Allison Shanklin and Darla Stow attended the fortieth annual Arkansas Girl’s State June 6-11 at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia. Allison and Darla each had a really great time.
The Rector Public Library Summer Reading Program continued Wednesday, June 15, as children and adults enjoyed the animals presented by Marybeth Gunter with Animalogy (NEHCM). This week will feature Arkansas Game and Fish at 9 a.m. at the library. (Courtesy photo)
The Piggott City Council met in regular session on Thursday, June 16, with all members present. After approving the minutes and financials from the last meeting, the council jumped right into regular business.
Harps Food Store in Rector has donated $3000 to the Rector Community Museum tuckpoint project, an urgent need in repairing the north wall of the historic building located at 310 Main Street. The museum has been requesting private donations to gather enough money to meet requirements to apply for a grant to complete the entire brick surface of the building which is over 100 years old. Over time, wind storms and rain storms have taken their toll on the historic structure and, sooner than anticipated, a section of bricks fell from the north wall onto the sidewalk at the handicap entrance to the museum. The donation from Harps exceeded the request from the museum board and the museum’s project manager Marvin Gatewood said, “We so very much appreciate Harps donation to this urgent project and we hope other businesses and individuals will follow their lead.” Donations may come to the museum by contacting Marvin Gatewood (870-783-0220) or Joey Pruett (870-595- 4053) or by check to Rector Community Museum, P.O. Box 313, Rector, AR 72461. Checks should be labeled Tuckpoint Project.
The regular meeting of the Piggott School Board was held at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, June 16 in the administration office with a full quorum. Minutes from the previous meetings and financials were approved.
Danny Franklin Cates, 75, of Piggott, Ark., passed peacefully in his home, June 15, 2022. He was born on January 9, 1947, in Poplar Bluff, Mo., and was the son of Roy V. Cates and Josephine Lancaster.
Eudean Shrum Engle, born September 25, 1940, passed from this earth on June 16, 2022. She is preceded in death by her parents, Pickney Shrum and Faye Shrum Fiffe; one daughter, Kim Engle Johnson and one grandson, Alex Landon Engle.
Dortha Jean Huff, 83 of Rector, Ark., passed away on June 12, 2022, at the Flo & Phil Jones Hospice House in Jonesboro, Ark. She was born to the late Freeman and Turna (Mailer) Huff in Clay County, Ark.