Public meeting held regarding St. Francis River Bridge
A public meeting was held on Monday, May 30 at the St. Francis Baptist Church to address questions and concerns regarding the upcoming closing and rebuilding of the current bridge.
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New teachers hired at special school board meeting
Piggott School Board met in special session on Thursday night, May 30 with all members in attendance. The only item on the agenda was discussion of flooring for elementary classrooms.
CCSD makes arrests
The Clay County Sheriff’s Department reports that on Tuesday, May 28 at approximately 6 p.m. they executed a search warrant at 154 CR 472 west of Greenway. After conducting a search of the residence and property, the Sheriff’s Dept. took into custody 33-year-old Joshua Ryan Dunham of Piggott. Dunham was transported to the Clay County Detention Center and booked in on possession of meth or cocaine with purpose to deliver GT 10GM but LT 200GM, simultaneous possession of drugs and firearms and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Piggott service for fallen soldiers
Piggott’s Memorial Garden Cemetery hosted services for Memorial Day, Sunday afternoon, May 26, as the traditional ceremony was held along with the usual business meeting. On Friday, in preparation for this event Mohawk athletes and coaches gathered along the beautiful rolling hills of the cemetery to place over 800 American flags on the graves of the veterans who are laid to rest there.
Longtime PES counselor retires
Longtime Piggott Elementary School counselor, Barbara Batey is set to retire at the end of the school year. Batey began teaching in August of 1975 on “grade school hill” and taught 10 years in second grade and then served as elementary counselor for the last 39.
WWII soldier buried in Italy returned to Piggott
A recent phone call from a Michigan resident to Piggott City Hall regarding letters found in a house in Michigan, led Scott Allman American Legion Post 38 to do some searching and came up with the interesting story of a Piggott veteran who was laid to rest in Italy and later on moved to the cemetery in Piggott.
Summer Reading Program begins at Rector Public Library
The Rector Public Library is geared-up for a busy June and July as the Summer Reading Program returns. This year’s theme is “Adventure Begins at Your Library.” The programs are at 9 a.m. Wednesdays during the month of June and will continue July 17. The 2024 Summer Reading Program is open to children of all ages, with prizes, drawings, stories, reading logs, and more.
Annual Piggott car show a success
Despite a rainy Thursday night, the weather cleared off to make for a great day for the 25th annual edition of the local car show. The beautiful, but warm weather made for a great turnout of spectators and entries with over 200 cars being displayed at the beau-tiful park.
Stidham shares a wild and crazy story that unraveled
Judge Dan Stidham manages his professional judicial calendar along with his current -months-long book tour to promote his true crime book, ‘Harvest of Innocence’, accompanied by Lea Ann Stidham, his wife. He met with an interested crowd at the book signing in the community room at the Rector Public Library on Saturday morning, May 18, and with another audience interested in hearing his personal perspective on the case involving the so-called West Memphis Three in the afternoon at the Ford Room inside the Rector Community Museum. A question/ answer portion of the program at the Ford Room allowed audience members to gain further insight into Judge Stidham’s theories. As a whole, both audiences were interested in Judge Stidham’s story as told from his perspective thirty years after he was appointed public defender for Jessie Misskelley, one of the three teens later convicted of the horrific murders of three 8year old boys in 1993 in West Memphis.