Millions of people are set to spend untold dollars on Valentine’s Day gifts or experiences this year. Data compiled by InfographicPlaza.com indicates that individuals traditionally spend the most on jewelry, a night out, flowers, apparel, and gift cards on Valentine’s Day. Fifty-two percent of people who buy Valentine’s gifts will spend money on candy, particularly chocolate.
Hello everyone. I hope everyone is well. We didn’t get much snow. I was so glad we didn’t get any ice and the electric stayed on too. I hope everyone is staying warm. The temp is going to be cold this week for sure.
Clay County Extension Agent, Allison Howell reports the Clay and Greene counties Corn, Cotton and Peanut Production meeting went well with a great turnout on Jan. 13. “Extension specialists provided lots of good, timely information regarding corn, cotton, and peanut production for 2022,” she said. “They were also given some good information regarding how to stay profitable with rising input prices.”
The Arkansas Department of Human Services announced Jan. 3. that adult enrollees ages 21 and older in the fee-for-service Medicaid program are now allowed up to six prescriptions per month without prior authorization ― a change that took effect on the first of the year, pursuant to Arkansas Act 758 of 2021. Previously, enrollees were allowed three prescriptions without prior authorization and an additional three with prior authorization. This policy does not apply to enrollees who are under age 21, in the Arkansas Health and Opportunity for Me (ARHOME) program, or in the Provider-led Arkansas Shared Savings Entity (PASSE) program.
Tax deductible donations are being accepted for Corning’s recreational project, including: M. B.
Dr. J.C. Staley died at his home in Corning at eight o'clock last Friday evening after an illness of several months, and his remains were laid to rest in the presence of a large number of friends. Boyd Wells says that those young folks who are getting married now are shaking hands with corn bread for the balance of their lives. Joab Creps Staley was born in Shepherdstown, Va., March 18, 1820 and at the age of 22 graduated from the Baltimore Medical College and went to Perryville, Mo., the same year where he married Miss Anna Louise Carlat in 1853. He came to Corning in 1881, and went into the drug business on the site now occupied by the store and also ran what is now the Hotel Green, then known as the Akers House, one year. He read law and was admitted to the bar in Corning about 1877, but retired from active public life a few years later and devoted his entire time to beautifying and caring for his home. Corning now has telephone lines via Reyno and Pocahontas to Maynard. A festival was given at the Christian Church last evening to raise money to finish paying for the church building. W.A. Vandover has his fine new residence In the Bishop addition about finished and will move his family into it in a short while. It is a beautiful dwelling house and one of the finest finished in Clay County, the interior decorations and finish of the rooms on the first floor being particularly fine. Frank Masterson came over from Palatka yesterday to get some photos of his youngest child. Mr. and Mrs. Masterson undoubtedly have the largest and fattest baby boy in the Northeast Arkansas. The photos were made when the little fellow was three months old and weighed 22 pounds. He is now five months old and weighs over 30 pounds and has never been sick. Dr. J.P. Price, Springfield, Ill., arrived in this city Wednesday and has opened an office at the Dudgeon house. There will be seven saloons in the Western district of this county on January 1. four of these saloons will be in Corning, a license having been issued Tuesday to W.A. Vandover, Jas. Johnson, A.T. Webb and Co and Whitehead and Boshears. Whitehead and Boshears have bought J.C. Webb and Co's saloon and will continue to run same in its present location. A.T. Webb and J.E. Matthews are preparing to open a saloon next Monday in the room lately occupied by George Barnhill, next door South of McCann's restaurant. Jas. Johnson and Wm. Fisher will open a beer saloon at Success January 1. D.W. McPherson has license to sell whiskey at Knobel and Jno. Baker has the same for Peach Orchard.
For your reading enjoyment, we continue to publish Rambling Vines by the late Marylea Vines as she recalls events and names of Corning folks from many years ago. We are currently in the year 1987 Hop Alley...everyone talks about Hop Alley.
“I didn’t know he had it in him.” How many times have you heard this statement after someone earned an achievement? When a young Bruce Springsteen attended school as a boy in Freehold, New Jersey, he felt he didn’t fit inside the box. He said in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning a couple years ago, “I was probably one of the smartest kids in my class at the time.
Now more than ever, it is important for communities to focus on smart, sustainable growth. To increase quality of life and bolster local tax revenue, the City of Corning and the Northeast Arkansas Regional Intermodal Authority recently launched a partnership with the Arkansas Economic Development Commission and Retail Strategies to strategically attract commercial development.
In 2019 of the 35,588 3 graders in Arkansas only one-third were reading proficiently. In 2020 with COVID closures of schools and quarantining of students the chance of these statistics improving much, if any was minimal.