December 2024

7th Grade: Haylee Fairchild escorted by Levi Vanderburg Jordan Lawrence escorted by Max Massey Mabri Thompson escorted by Jayden Woodard Sawyer Wright escorted by Bryson Murray 8th Grade: Alyiah Archer escorted by Hayden Leonard Rayne Owens escorted by Rex Shourd Riley Stanley escorted by Brayden Franklin Abby Young escorted by Bennett Davis 9th Grade: Camila Elliot escorted by Dawson Leach Carlee Gleghorn escorted by Jaggar George Krista King escorted by Jackson Jett Rylee Remus escorted by TJ Small 10th Grade: Yadria Castro escorted by Seth Smith Kylie Green escorted by Jakob Cox 11th Grade: Taytum Whitley escorted by Reid Mc-Masters Faith Yandell escorted by Peyton Cartwright Flower Girl: Peyton Arnold Ring Bearer: Avery McKinney 12th Grade: Taylor Ingram- Queen- escorted by Ethan Guthrie Teryn Kanaday escorted by Haydon Cox Alyssa Burns escorted by Seth Green

December 13, 1990

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

School Notes

4th grade knocked TWO performances out of the park December 13, 2024. They performed A Holiday Moosical at 9:00 for students and again at 1:00 for families. These students worked so very hard and it showed. Photos/Facebook Corning Park Elementary

The 2024 Corning Chamber Christmas Banquet brought holiday spirit and community together on Dec. 12, making the annual event a resounding success. Attendees gathered for an evening filled with festivities, including a table decorating contest, prizes, and entertainment.

November Students of the Month

Among Clay County histories, there are conflicting claims in regard to just whom Clayton County was named. Was it General Powell Clayton or his brother John Middleton Clayton? Local Historian Robert T. Webb in his 1933 History and Traditions of Clay County attests that Clayton County was named, and then unnamed, for General Powell Clayton as the previous Governor of Arkansas. His book was the first extensive history written of Clay County, and benefited from the oral history of old settlers that had been there at the founding of Clayton County. Later historians O.L. Dalton and J.M. Oliver, Jr., writing for the Piggott Banner and the Clay County Courier respectively, took the stance that Clayton County was in fact named for John M. Clayton. Oliver’s accounts describe how in early 1873, freshman State Representative Benjamin H. Crowley (grandson of Crowley’s Ridge namesake, Ben Crowley) introduced the bill to create a county from parts of Randolph and Greene Counties but found no traction until partnering with John M. Clayton to pass the bill, stipulated by naming the county for John Clayton. In Oliver’s Corning Cavalcade he gives a slightly different account that the creation of Clayton County was delayed because legislators refused to name a county for the hated Powell Clayton, and that eventually a compromise was made to ostensibly name the county for the popular Senate President, John Clayton.