The traditional slate of beauty pageants are scheduled in conjunction with this year’s St. Francis Picnic, set for Saturday, July 20, at the picnic grounds in that community. Organizers note the registration fee for all pageants is $25 and will begin starting 30 minutes prior to each contest.
The annual Pollard Picnic, to benefit the New Hope Cemetery, will be held Saturday, July 13, in Pollard. As usual, this year’s picnic will include a full schedule of beauty pageants for contestants of all ages.
The Piggott Little League baseball and softball teams hosted the Clay County Tournament this past weekend. 12U, 10U and 8U All Star teams from Piggott, Rector, Corning, and Marmaduke competed in the week long tournament.
The Corning Public Library’s Summer Reading Program has come to a successful end for 2024. The program connects children with books and encourages them to read for enjoyment and to learn about topics discussed during the summer program.
Students on the Chancellor’s and Dean’s Lists for the spring 2024 semester at Arkansas State University have been announced. The lists recognize undergraduate students who achieved the highest grade-point averages while completing a minimum of 12 credit hours of study.
Monday, June 10, 2024 8:08 a.m. – Female advised there is a white SUV parked right up against the back of her apartment by her back door and he does know who owns it.
05/02/2024: Rebecca Martinez of McDougal was arrested for Misdemeanor Failure to Appear No Insurance. 05/02/2024: Cassondra Patterson, Piggott was arrested Misdemeanor Failure to Appear on failure to Pay fines.
A big fearsome word. By definition, one from the Oxford dictionary states, “The action or manner of controlling or regulating a nation, organization or people.” It does not have to mean a monster out to destroy. It does not have to bring fear to a nation or to its neighbors, whether near or afar. It doesn’t have to be conservative to be affective. It does not have to be liberal to everyone and answer every heart’s desire. It does have to be fair or to progress, it needs to be balanced. It doesn’t have to have transparency in all things, as the general public mostly have no need to be familiar with the details of national security. Many of the more liberal claim that our government spends too much of our funding on military needs. The military must be funded. We must have the top military level on the planet, we need to be ready for any aggression shown to us. Some of the more liberal believers say we need to ‘give peace a chance’. That never means you have to let down your guard. One of the greatest of the martial arts is the Northern Shaolin Kung Fu, yet it is truly designed to be defensive, and that is the way our country should view its security - to be ever vigilant, well trained, and ready to repel any assailant. We should be regulated to be hard-working and thrifty people, but we should be careful to take care of our old, our ill, our weak, and our innocents, who have not grown to maturity to take care of themselves. Our leaders should never be allowed to be bullies, for bullies have no regard for those about them. Our leaders should be educated, but more than educated, they need to be intelligent. They have need of skills in diplomacy, in problem solving, in compromise. Most of all our leaders need to take on the mantle of the servant, as that is what they are, and their citizens and their welfare should be their focus. To govern well is to allow growth and development expediently but not recklessly. To govern well is to allow the correct amount
POCAHONTAS - John Allen French of Pocahontas has recently been named Regional Accounts Executive for the Arkansas properties owned by Cherry-Road Media, a newspaper publishing company based in New Jersey.