As we approach the final days of the 2025 Regular Session, the Arkansas House of Representatives remains focused on passing legislation that will have a lasting impact on the lives of Arkansans. We anticipate adjourning on April 16, and several key bills have advanced as we wrap up our work.
As Superintendent of the Corning School District, I want to extend my deepest gratitude and sincere appreciation to our transportation department. Their dedication, commitment, and unwavering focus on the safety of our students are truly commendable and deserve recognition.
The public testing, and logic and accuracy test, for the upcoming May 13 Election in Clay County will be held beginning at 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 26. The testing will be conducted at the Corning election warehouse, located at 435 Southwest Second Street in Corning. The testing is open to the public. Those wanting additional information may contact Clay County Election Coordinator Karen Cagle at 870-240-3295.
Part 5: Upheaval and Foreshadowing. Killing Clayton is a limited weekly column about a corrupt election, the assassination of possible Clay County namesake John Clayton, and the shadow it cast on Arkansas history.
Ryan Carter was recently awarded the NEARA Award for Exemplary Archival Research for his research paper titled “The Assassination of Black Pioneer ‘Old Jim’ Hanover and the Struggle for Justice in the Upper White River District.” His paper tells the story of “Old Jim’s” life, the tragedy of his death, and the struggle to secure justice for is brutal murder and that of others in the Freedman’s Bureau Upper White River District.
A Corning woman with an active felony warrant was arrested on April 10 after fleeing from a traffic stop.
A routine traffic stop in Corning on April 11 led to the arrest of two Missouri men on felony drug charges.
A Corning man was arrested last week after a parole search led to the discovery of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia at a residence on West Main Street.
We’ve got a bike-a-thon coming up Saturday and all the profits will go to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital in Memphis. Youngsters are urged to ask parents, grandparents, and other adults to sponsor them… even five cents per mile would help… then report to East First street at 9:30 Saturday morning. The bikers will ride the full length of First Street, all the way from Highway 62 to the end of Lee Drive. The round trip is two miles. There will be certificates to all bikers who turn in money, T-shirts for riders collecting $30.00 or more and T-shirts plus sports bags for those turning in $75.00 or more. Plus, there will be a special gift… a brand-new bicycle… to the boy or girl, age 12 and under, who turns in the most pledge money by Friday, May 1. Boy, I wish an opportunity like that had come along when I was growing up… I always loved to ride a bicycle, even though I never had one to call my very own. When we were in Elementary School my brother and I had a partnership bicycle and that was nothing but around-the-clock bickering. It go so bad that mom laid down the rules… we were to take turns by the day and on his day, no matter if he was or was not riding his bike, I was not to touch it and the same went for him on my days. Being the older and a little wiser, he soon figured out that he could ride the bike until dark on his day, give it a coat of paint and it would be noon before the paint would dry on my day.