March 2024

On Monday February 26, 2024 at approximately 10:40 p.m. A Clay County Sheriff’s Deputy was traveling through Corning when he made a traffic stop on a vehicle for an equipment violation. The traffic stop was at the intersection of U.S. 62 and U.S. 67. when the deputy came in contact with the driver, he advised the driver of why he was stopped and asked for his driver license. The deputy noticed what appeared to be drug paraphernalia in the vehicle. A search of the vehicle was conducted and other illegal items were found. Taken into custody was 54yr. old Terry Lee Garrett of Paragould. He was transported to the Clay County Detention Center and booked in on the following charges, Possession of Methamphetamine or Cocaine GT 2GM but LT 10GM , 2 counts of Felony Drug Paraphernalia, No Liability Insurance, Defective Vehicle Equipment.

The Brownie-Pirtle Cemetery Association’s annual meeting will be held Monday, March 18, 2024, at 7:00 p.m. in the Peach Orchard Pentecostal Church.

The 2024 Presidential Primary saw an increase in voter participation of approximately 600 more ballots cast from four years ago with an unofficial number for 2024 being 2,853 residents of the county participating in the election compared to $2,260 in 2020.

Arkansas education officials on Wednesday voted to allow half the state’s public school districts to add time to each school day for the rest of the year to make up for January’s snow days. The shift from a traditional days-based calendar to an alternate hourly calendar comes as January’s severe winter weather highlighted the LEARNS Act’s practical elimination of alternative methods of instruction (AMI) days, which districts used in recent years to offer virtual instruction when schools were closed for weather, disease outbreaks or utility outages.