Community
IT HAPPENED HERE YEARS AGO….
1984 A photo from the 1930’s Pollard ball team was featured on the front page of this week’s Times. Team members listed were Marshall Baden, Francis Brady, Candy Kilbreth, Daniel Pillow, Dee Book, Reginald Hogard, Roy Brady, Homer Book, Emil Johnson and Fred Brady.
IT HAPPENED HERE YEARS AGO….
1984 A Sunday morning fire of undetermined origin gutted most of the upstairs portion of a building owned by Jim Davis on the east side of the courthouse square. The building was not occupied at the time.
New at the library
The following materials are now available at the Piggott Public Library. EASY BOOKS Elbow Grease: My Monster Truck Family by John Cena Grumpy Monkey Spring Fever by Suzanne Lang Big by Vashti Harrison Pinkalicious: Kittens! Kittens! Kittens! by Victoria Kann See This Little Dot by Jane Yolen My Grandpa, My Tree, and Me by Roxanne Troup World’s Best Papa Bear by Mike Berenstain World’s Wisest Mama Bear by Mike Berenstain JUVENILE FICTION Penny Draws a Secret Adventure by Sara Shepard Ferris by Kate DiCamillo The Misfits: A Royal Conundrum by Lisa Yee Leon Levels Up by Paul Coccia Can We Keep Bigfoot? by Ryan Wolf Part of Your Nightmare by Vera Strange I Survived: The Attacks of September 11, 2001 by Lauren Tarshis I Survived: The Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 by Lauren Tarshis Shuri: Symbiosis by Nic Stone Lily’s Game by Scott Cawthon Happs by Scott Cawthon 1:35 A.
Grant allows John J. Pershing VA Medical Center to grow monthly food pantries
A new grant from the Disabled American Veterans will allow the John J. Pershing VA Medical Center to grow its monthly food pantry in Poplar Bluff and start a new one in the Cape Girardeau community.
UAW retirees to meet
United Auto Workers retirees will meet at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, April 11, at Grecian Steak House, 210 Airport Road, in Paragould.
Rep. Crawford searching for student artist
A colored pencil drawing of combat boots draped with dog tags, a painting reflecting the anxiety a student felt during COVID, and hundreds of torn magazine pieces glued to create a portrait of a basketball player, all winning artworks previously chosen by Representative Rick Crawford to represent Arkansas’s First District in a national artwork display in Washington D.C.