Dr. Les Johnson will be the guest speaker for a program planned at the Eclipse Block Party Monday, April 8, at 11 a.m. at the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center. There will be a $10 admission which will include eclipse glasses and an eclipse box of treats. The viewing site will be held on the grounds across from the museum. Those attending are encouraged to bring your lawn chair and set up will begin at 9 a.m.
For many Americans, April 8 will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see one of the greatest displays in nature: a total solar eclipse. Partial solar eclipses - those in which the moon blocks a portion of the sun during the daytime hours - aren't particularly uncommon, Total solar eclipses, in contrast, are far less common, especially for people who don't have the means or interest to travel to obscure corners of the globe to witness them.
The Great Arkansas Treasure Hunt, Arkansas’ unclaimed property program, is getting a facelift. “On Thursday, Feb.
Standard work protocols were addressed at the rescheduled Rector City Council meeting held on Thursday evening, Feb. 8, at 6 p.m., at the Rector Community Center.
Once again this year, volunteers from across Northeast Arkansas will be manning roadblocks to collect funds in the Make-a-Wish Foundation, Have-a-Heart Wish-a-Thon. The roadblocks will be set up at various locations across the region from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. this Friday, Feb. 16.
Celebrating the Rector Chamber of Commerce Stars 2024 along with a salute to the upcoming Total Solar Eclipse, the Chamber Board led by Executive Director Crystal Williams and President Mark Manchester announces the annual banquet to be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 4, at the Rector Community Center Crockett Multi-purpose Room.
Early voting for the 2024 Preferential Primary will begin Tuesday, Feb. 20, 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.
Shawn-Hudson Seegraves of Piggott has been named to the Crowley’s Ridge College fall 2023 President’s List. Seegraves is a freshman and a member of the men’s varsity basketball team.
Kristen Crittenden is running for Position #5 on the Piggott School Board. This position is for the remaining term of Jim Threatt who resigned. She is married to Joseph Crittenden and has two children, 12-year-old Claire and nine-year-old Ryan. Kristen graduated from Piggott High School in 1999 and returned after graduating college in 2004 and currently works at Affinity Counseling in Piggott and Kennett and Families Inc. in Piggott and teaches junior high youth at the First General Baptist. “I have been blessed to work with many different people from all works of life,” she said.