The 2024 Clay County Fair will commence with the usual pageants on Saturday, Sept. 7, although the majority of events are being held Wednesday through Saturday, Sept. 11 to 14 with the parade set for 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10.
Arkansas Farm Bureau’s (ArFB) held its 76th annual Officers and Leaders Conference on July 25 - 26 at the Red Wolf Convention Center in Jonesboro. The theme for the event was Breaking New Boundaries, and featured professional development sessions, commodity division meetings, recognition of outstanding Young Farmer & Rancher families and culminated with a keynote from Dr. Cliff E. Jones, deputy director of the Arkansas State University Delta Center for Economic Development. More than 500 Farm Bureau leaders attended the event, including Keith and Sabrina Woolverton of Piggott, Agency Manager Cliff Gifford, and Mark Coleman, County Board President of Corning and Maddie Coleman who represented Clay County at the annual Women’s Conference held on Friday afternoon and Saturday.
The Clay County Fair has added a new event to its schedule as fair goers enjoy Barrel Races that will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 10 with training beginning at 5 p.m. and the show starting at 7:30 p.m. Some of the events performed will be training barrels, peewee barrels for children eight and under, youth 3D, adult 3D sidepot and open 4D barrels. A negative coggins is required.
07/01/2024: Jared Berry of Marmaduke was arrested for Felony Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, Possession of a Controlled Substance Meth. 07/01/2024: Matthew Sweaney of Knobel was arrested for Driving on suspended Driver’s License, No Seat Belt.
What on earth was ever meant by that? It seems that somewhere, somehow, someone equated the most miserable time of the year to dogs. Heck, my dogs don’t like it at all. They go outside to do their business, look around and head right back to the A/C. August doesn’t sit high on my list either. Down here in Southeast Texas, it is the time of high temps, high humidity, high populations of flies, and bad attitude from all those listed. It is also the time of the year when people in my neck of the woods start paying attention to the tropics, particularly the Gulf of Mexico. Just as we are getting out of the heat and the bugs, here come the hurricanes. Thankfully, we don’t get them every year. I had never experienced one of those monsters ‘til 2008. You folks up in Northeast Arkansas get a storm, and it is gone in a couple of hours. With something like Ike, who came ashore as Cat 2 with sustained winds of 110 mph, you have 12 hours or more sitting and listening to nonstop banshee like screaming of the wind, your whole house shaking, rain in sheets, and the potential of catastrophic flooding if you are situated in the wrong place. That doesn’t include the possibility of tornados that these storms can spawn. Anyway, I told Kerry, never again. If one comes our way, I plan on taking a long road trip elsewhere.
Eureka! 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.
LITTLE ROCK – The Senate and House Education Committees are close to finalizing next year’s school funding formula. They have worked all year on the formula, in order to comply with the mandate in the Arkansas Constitution that requires the state to provide all children with an adequate and equitable education.
On August 27, the Biden-Harris Administration awarded the Arkansas Department of Health $8.8 million to improve maternal health care statewide. This funding, part of the President’s White House Blueprint for Addressing the Maternal Health Care Crisis, comes at a crucial time for Arkansas.
(POWHATAN, Ark.) – Powhatan Historic State Park will host the Constitution Road Trip travelling exhibit from the Arkansas State Archives on Friday September 13 and Saturday September 14 at the Powhatan Courthouse. Join park staff and state archivists to view original pages from Arkansas’s several state constitutions. This exhibit will give visitors a frontrow view of Arkansas’s changing history through its primary legal document. Step back in time and read the constitution in the historic Powhatan courtroom and feel the history come to life!
This week, the House and Senate Education Committee convened to continue important work on the Educational Adequacy Study, a crucial study aimed at ensuring that every student in Arkansas has access to a high-quality education. One area of focus has been teacher recruitment and retention— an essential component in providing a stable and effective learning environment for our students.