For those of us watching the 2024 election cycle ramp up with its cast of characters, speculation, and propaganda, do you ever find yourself humming the chorus of the Stealers Wheel song, “Clowns to the left of me. Jokers to the right. Here I am, stuck in the middle with you” ?
It was a short July city council meeting with only one item on the agenda. With all members of the Corning municipal board present on Monday, July 8, the council set about the business of discussing city funds at 6 p.m.
– as rice begins to head be on the lookout for rice sting bug. I have been seeing pretty high numbers around edges of fields and on grass. Numbers have been all over the place depending on the area. Hopefully the population will spread out as more rice heads. With the decrease in efficacy seen with lambda-cyhalothrin since 2020 we are looking at doubling the cost of a single application for RSB control. With this in mind, and our data from numerous sites over the last 6 years, we suggest raising the early season threshold (flowering and milk) to 10 per 10 sweeps and sticking to that throughout the growing season. We have rarely documented yield loss from rice stink bug in our plots unless numbers exceed 15 per 10 sweeps. The only reason we have not officially changed the threshold is because we are trying to repeat these studies in much larger plots to ensure that there is no yield loss at these RSB levels.
A plan has been released and it is catching a lot of attention. It’s been in the works for years and they named it Project 2025 -- which sounds more like an end-of-world zombie apocalypse movie.
The Arkansas Agriculture Department has completed a series of public hearings on updates to the statewide water plan, which hasn’t been modified in 10 years. For the first time, the water plan developed this year will include ways to prepare for floods and to mitigate as much damage as possible caused by flooding.
As July rolls around, so does National Parks and Recreation Month, a time to recognize the importance of parks and recreation in establishing and maintaining the well-being of communities. We invite you to celebrate this month by visiting one of Arkansas’s 52 state parks.
Monday, July 1, 2024 10:22 a.m. – Advised a 4-door white Dodge Dually flatbed was driving down the center of the road and weaving in and out of his lane; westbound on Hwy 67 passing Datto curve and heading to Reyno. Caller in white Ford F-150. Contacted RANS Tuesday, July 2, 2024 1:08 p.m. – Female advised a black male approached her in Dollar General and started talking to her. At the end of the conversation, he told her he knew her tag number. She advised she was the second or third young female with young kids that he approached. He had told her that he was from Paragould but recently moved to Corning. She advised he had a white female with him, and they are driving a white Ford Ranger. She wanted PD to be aware and keep an eye out for him.
News Editor - Stone County Leader Signatures on petitions for the two Freedom of Information ballot initiatives fell short of the totals required for ballot access this November. Measures seeking ballot access face high hurdles, and we agree that the process should be challenging enough to assure that issues have widespread support.
Welcome to Clayton County is a limited weekly column exploring the life of General Powell Clayton, the original namesake of our county, our early history, and why we are not called Clayton County today.
On Friday, July 5, 2024, Arkansans for Limited Government (AFLG) submitted 101,525 signatures from registered voters in support of the Arkansas Abortion Amendment. The amendment “would not allow government entities to “prohibit, penalize, delay or restrict abortion services within 18 weeks of fertilization.” The proposal would also permit abortion services in cases of rape, incest, a fatal fetal anomaly or to “protect the pregnant female’s life or physical health,” and it would nullify any of the state’s existing “provisions of the Constitution, statutes and common law” that conflict with it. Abortion has been illegal in Arkansas, except to save the pregnant person’s life, since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.