Rector High School has been named the top-performing school in Arkansas in the 2025 Intuit Hour of Finance Challenge – a national initiative that engages middle and high school students in building essential financial literacy skills through interactive activities with real-world scenarios – in celebration of April’s Financial Literacy Month.
The Rector Public Library is gearedup for a busy June and July as the Summer Reading Program returns. This year’s theme is “Color Our World”. The programs are at 9 a.m. Wednesdays during the month of June and will continue through July 23. The 2025 Summer Reading Program is open to children of all ages, with prizes, drawings, stories, reading logs, and more.
The City o f Piggott has teamed up with GOGov to create an app that makes citizen communication simple. Download “Piggott Pathways” to receive push notifications about outages, road closures, calendar of events, and so much more. Citizens can download today, Wednesday, May 28 from your iPhone or Android.
Unofficial results released by the Clay County Clerk’s office for the May 13 Rector School Board Election and millage increase shows 297 votes were cast with 259 for and 38 against the increase. Kirk Ford ran unopposed for another term on the school board.
At the May City Council Meeting held Thursday, May 8, at the Rector Community Center, a conundrum regarding zoning and trailer homes within the city arose. The Council took plenty of time to discern what was of concern to residents. As explained by several individuals, zoning ordinances are confusing and, in some cases, conflicting. Packets distributed to petitioners for requesting a variance contain language too vague to convey an absolute.
Sydney Wofford’s Rector High School eighth grade Arkansas History class visited Rector Community Museum, Rector Area Chamber of Commerce Office, and Veterans Memorial Park on Thursday, May 8.
The Governor’s Scholastic Honors Day was held Saturday, May 3, 2025, at the Governor’s Mansion in Little Rock. Scholastic Honors Day recognizes Arkansas’best and brightest students. Schools are encouraged to select two students in the senior class who best represent excellent academic achievement.
Rector’s Jeremy McDaniel Sports Complex is ready for the summer season with the purchase and installation of two new scoreboards, one located on the “small softball field” and the other located on the Little League field, each ready for league play. The two senior high fields and boards are maintained by RHS for use of the Cougars Baseball team and the Lady Cougars Softball team. Centennial Bank and Greenbrier were generous in meeting the requests from the Sports Complex Commission through applications for grants that impact the entire community.
Piggott Police Chief Sam Poole reports that on May 5, 2025, two suspects were arrested for attempting to pick up prescription medications with a fraudulent prescription from a pharmacy in town. The prescriptions had been called in on April 25 and employees at the pharmacy had determined this was a fraudulent prescription.
The Piggott City Council met at 5:45 p.m. on Monday, April 28 for public hearing regarding the condemnation of property. Council members Jeff Benbrook, Kevin Jones and Jamey Parks were present. Council member Tracy Cole was absent. Also present was Curtis Fuller, the owner of the property located at 780 West Clay. Fuller addressed the council and asked for time to get started on fixing the property. The council voted to allow Fuller three months to start repairs and then the council will reevaluate the progress.