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.
The 1811 earthquake that centered near New Madrid, Missouri in December of that year, and again a couple of months later in 1812, got the attention of a large amount of the citizens of the newly founded United States of America. Its noise and shaking was heard or felt within the boundaries of our new country almost everywhere. I have heard stories about it most of my life. While growing up in Clay County, I even experienced at least one fair-sized tremor on a warm spring day in the mid-1950s. As I looked out the window of the little Methodist Church called French-Grove, on the Hickoria Road east, 10 miles east of Corning, I could actually see the ripples of the tremor as it passed through. In 2015 I wrote a novel about a catastrophic disaster that struck North America in 2022, and I did considerable research of the New Madrid area. But I wish I would have had the book I am now reading about that mighty disaster, and about the danger that still lies there waiting. The book I am referencing is titled, “Southeast Missouri From Swampland to Farmland: The Transformation of the Lowlands”, by John C. Fisher. The title is good, but he should have included NE Arkansas in the title, because the same thing happened at the same time in Clay County and parts of Greene and maybe a bit of Randolph. The book begins in the Cretaceous period of our planet and sets the stage for our particular terrain and landscape that made up the world that many of us that grew up in Northeast Arkansas and Southeast Missouri, land a bit more difficult to claim than much of the country, and slower and more expensive on top of that. The description of the evolution of our part of the planet was thrilling and most informative.
The Arkansas Department of Transportation held a public event concerning the first phase of I-57 at the M.B. Ainley, Jr.
The Brownie-Pirtle Cemetery Association met Monday evening, March 18 in the Peach Orchard Pentecostal Church. Richard Smith called the meeting to order. Minutes of the last meeting and treasury report were given by Judy Schimming. Richard Smith reported on the Association’s perpetual fund. Richard Smith was re-elected president. Judy Schimming was re-elected secretary. Christine Lewis was elected to serve a five year term as board member. Other board members are John Daughhetee, Richard Smith, Rodney Schimming and Jamey Daughhetee. Stanley Rainwater was re-hired to mow. Donations are needed to help maintain the cemeteries. Please send donations or memorials to: Brownie-Pirtle Cemetery Association, c/o Judy Schimming, P.O. Box 40, Peach Orchard, AR 72453
March 27, 2014 Members of the Lady Bobcats softball team are pictured from left, front: Alix Hampton (lying down), Madison LaRue, Rachel Taylor, Kandra Leonard, Lauren Hovis, Amber Russom and Mikayla Morrow. Middle: Sara Patrick, Vicki Liu, Kayla Woolard, Sierra Mitchell, Landon Brownfiel, Julie Cole and Allison Russom.
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 1990 The following is copied from an 1880’s edition of The Courier and is entitled “Appreciated Then.” It reads: It is funny how people discover the importance of a newspaper when they get into a scrape or do something they are ashamed of.
The sterile waiting room held a room of ten veterans waiting patiently to be called to their doctor appointments. The conversation was passionate despite the room’s dull décor, posters on the tan walls denoting available health programs as a television, largely ignored, played a benign slide of veteran services silently on the wall.
The Problem 5 Division 1 team competed at Greene County Tech on Feb. 27 and walked away as the Odyssey of the Mind State Qualifier Regional Champions. Elena Guthrie, Easton Jett, Butler Bowers, Mullen Jett, Braxton Godwin, and Blaze George
The following FFA members brought home ribbons from the Buffalo Island Junior District Livestock Show on March 13-14, 2024 at the Greene County Fairgrounds. .
CSD approves 2024-2025 school calendar The Corning School Board met at 5:00 p.m. on March 11, 2024 with all members present.