LITTLE ROCK – Participation in athletics at Arkansas institutions of higher education has increased in recent years, even as total enrollment at colleges and universities has gone down. About 3,900 students participated in athletics at ten universities and seven colleges two years ago, the most recent school year for which statistics are available.
‘You don’t do something like this unless you are prepared to go the whole way,’ Editor-Publisher Tamara Johnson says Last month, the Times-Herald newspaper in Forrest City won a criminal case against the Palestine- Wheatley School Board brought against its members for meeting in secret to interview a candidate for interim school superintendent. That’s some rare good news for enforcing Arkansas’ Freedom of Information Act, which protects the public’s right to observe public officials in action and to inspect public records.
Several members gathered at the Capitol this week as subcommittees of the Arkansas Legislative Council (ALC) held meetings. ALC convened on Friday.
Governor, Democratic lawmakers meet Democratic lawmakers met with Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Arkansas Department of Education Secretary (ADE) Jacob Oliva last Tuesday. Democrats had asked to meet with Secretary Oliva to discuss ADE’s seemingly last-minute decision not to recognize AP African American Studies as an official course offering this year.
Local children had fun while keeping cool at the August 26 Waterslide Day hosted by Growing Corning Together. Photo/Pam Lowe .
McDougal will hold their annual Labor Day Picnic on Saturday, Sept. 2 at the Edna Cooper Park on Hwy.
So many of us go through our lives without trying to give our inner guide any help. We are a bit like irresponsible parents neglecting the training that is due our children. Yet we are responsible for ourselves and should be licensed, responsible captains or our own ships before those offspring come along. I had been speaking with my friend Dan Kelly, who lives down in Arivaca, AZ. He mentioned my last week’s column, and I thanked him and remarked, yeah, and I need to get the one for this week written and tomorrow is Sunday. I also mentioned that I had no idea what I was going to write about. He said, write about just sitting down and letting it flow. I told him I often did that. The human mind is a marvelous thing. Experts say we only use about 10% of the subconscious mind. Imagine, only 10%! I studied the art of Kung Fu back in my early 20’s and I saw some of those old masters do things that you would say was impossible to do. There is a thing called ‘Chi’. It is your life force, your energy. It is driven by your intelligence. When you practice the martial arts, you do it through concentration, focus and repetition until you recognize a term called muscle memory. I, however, don’t quite go with that. I still hold that it is a thing directed by the unconscious mind. The mind gives force for the muscle to do what it is called upon to do. If you think about it, so many of your daily tasks that you do are accomplished by the unconscious mind, you seldom think of what you are doing. That same thing holds for any task that you set to do. Up until 2013, I didn’t know I could organize enough thoughts to write a book. So I took a story that I knew, one I didn’t have to create, and simply wrote it in a very simple way. When finished, I realized that I really liked doing it and I wanted to keep writing. But I did not know anything else to write. So I had to learn, and I did that by reading and study. Now I have written and published 10 books and have started an
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 1989 Freddie Joe Arnold made his annual visit to The Courier on Tuesday morning of last week, his arms loaded with blooming gladioli, each one a different color and each one prettier than the other.
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” - Neslon Mandela .
Celebrating 150 Years of the City of Corning & Clay County in 2023 Smithwick School, 1918 Picture of Smithswick School group, made in 1918 is borrowed from Mrs. Clyde Boyd, Knobel.