2024 Junior Miss Independence
Left to right: 2nd Alternate - Kelci Masterson, 1st Alternate - Mattisyn Lane, Queen Marlie Cissell, 3rd Alternate - Sawyer Wright, 4th Alternate - Jolie Cannady .
July 2024
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2024 Miss Independence Court
Left to right: 2nd Alternate - Abigail Thompkins, 1st Alternate - Harleigh Hooten, Queen Maggie Brinsfield (center), 3rd Alternate - Kami Medling, 4th Alternate - Olivia Rebstock .
Jeremy Wooldridge
House of Representatives State of Arkansas District 1 This week, the Joint Performance Review Committee received testimony from state and county election officials about the use of paper ballots and voting machines. The 94th General Assembly has been diligently working to pass legislation that ensures the security of our elections.
State Capitol Week in Review
From LITTLE ROCK – The state Attorney General has sued two pharmacy benefit managers, alleging that they contributed to the dramatic rise in the abuse of painkillers that has ravaged Arkansas. Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are companies that act as the middleman in transactions between wholesale manufacturers and the people who pay for prescription drugs, such as drug store chains, health insurance companies and government health care agencies.
U. S. Postal Service announces 2024 Postage Price Change
The United States Postal Service has announced the firstclass forever stamp will soon cost 73 cents, which is a nickel more than the current 68-cent price tag. Prices for other services are also increasing, including postcards and metered letters.
PD makes felony fleeing, underage DUI arrest
On Friday, June 28. 2024 officers with the Corning Police Department attempted to stop a speeding vehicle that was passing in the turning lane on West Main Street. Upon activating the lights and sirens, the vehicle accelerated and fled from the officers. After going down several city streets the officers were finally able to stop the vehicle. Officers took into custody 19-year-old Connor Ross of Ravenden Springs. Mr. Ross was charged with § 5-54-125 Felony Fleeing, § 5-65-303. Driving Under the Influence While Underage, § 2751-307 Improper Passing, § 27-51-601 Failure to Stop at a Stop Sign, and Hazardous Driving City Ordinance. On July 1, 2024, District Judge Dan Stidham set bond at $15,000 any form. Mr. Ross is being held at the Clay County Detention Center.
Welcome to Clayton Country
Powell Foulk Clayton descended from English Quaker settlers who followed William Penn to America. Powell’s father John Clayton was a Pennsylvania orchard keeper and carpenter. His mother Ann Clark Clayton was the daughter of a loyal British Army officer. Powell was born on August 7,1833 and enjoyed a peaceful childhood playing among the abundant apple, cherry and peach trees in his father’s orchard with his three brothers, Thomas, William and John. Powell attended the Partridge Military Academy in Bristol, Pennsylvania and studied civil engineering in Wilmington, Delaware, instilling skills and discipline that he would rely on for his entire life. Clayton ventured into adult life at the age of 22 by moving to Leavenworth, Kansas in 1855 to work his trade as a surveyor. The Kansas territory had been opened to non-native settlement in 1854 and many booming towns such as Leavenworth sprang to life along the Missouri River. Clayton’s surveying work in Leavenworth was so satisfactory that he was elected City Engineer and was responsible for surveying all city streets, building bridges and sidewalks, and erecting lamp posts. Clayton spent his 6 years in Leavenworth residing at the Mansion House, a large hotel popular with free state settlers opposed to slavery.
Letter to the Editor
What debate? If that was a debate, why was it that President Joe Biden was doing all the fact checking on that former president? Donald Trump is still in his fantasy land as he spit out 30 misinformation statements during his half of the 90 minutes. He seemed to be hung up on the former head of the House as he mentioned her twice possibly as she would end up leaving the White House due to the former president’s lack of interest in accomplishing any compromises or his being in his own world by not accepting reality.
Full Circle
The Great Elvis Presley made a hit out of this way back there in our past. Isn’t it interesting that he has been gone from the earth now longer than he was upon it? I was busy with a project this morning that required mixing some two-part resin epoxy for some art I am creating, and silently cursing my eyes that struggle to see the details, eyes that once could spot a squirrel in the tallest “scaly bark” hickory tree along Ring Slough and generally take him out with one shot.
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The cognitive dissonance is astounding. Look in any direction, nationally or locally, as similar plots unfold.