From the office of JereMy WooLdridge
Every day during the school year, more than 350,000 Arkansas children depend on school buses to transport them safely to and from school. These buses make multiple stops in every community.
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Back to School Bash . . .
It was a packed gymnasium at the Corning School District’s Back to School Bash on Thursday, August 8 as students along with their families, registered for school during the fun filled event. Teachers, administration, students and local businesses came together to celebrate the 2024-2025 school year with face painting, snow cones, hot dogs, photo opportunities and school swag. Photos/Pam Lowe
Black River Trap & Skeet shooters bring skills to AIM Grand Nationals
Black River Trap & Skeet trapshooters displayed a great weekend of shooting at the AIM Grand National Youth Trapshooting Championships. Black River Trap and Skeet squads all came out in the Top 2 or the highest overall in their age divisions or classes. Coach Jim Clifton stated the Black River Trap and Skeet trapshooters had the best year ever as far as the number of trophies won. “All five squads ended with a trophy and that is just unbelievable,” he said.
McClung graduates D.A.R.E. training
Corning Police Corporal Micayla McClung successfully completed the two-week (80 hour) D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) Officer training in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on Friday, July 26. During the training McClung learned facilitation/instruction, classroom management techniques, learning modalities enhancement, communication/ public speaking skills and a working knowledge of the D.A.R.E curriculum, in the high school, middle school, and elementary school curriculum.
Part Five:
The Militia War. 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.
Full Circle
Events change, sometimes quickly, others take a bit of time. I remember a certain day that my youngest son, Chris, went up to our mountain property when he was about 6 years old. I had an old Caterpillar up there and I worked on it most of the day, while he played midst the boulders and rocks with his X-Men. As we returned home that afternoon coming down off the very steep four-wheel drive section of the road, a herd of deer came out of the forest and casually worked their way by us. We finished our descent and went home. I had worked the entire day in early March in a t-shirt, it was so very warm. About 9 P.M. our local Denver station announced that there was a high chance of snow for the evening. I stepped outside, and big white flakes were coming down in bucketfuls (we were about 70 miles north of Denver)! In the next 36 hours we received 48” of snow, taking out whole sections of power poles, closing highways for miles and snowing people into their cabins. Certainly not what the morning would have made you think.
From the office of Jeremy Wooldridge
Early childhood education lays the foundation for lifelong learning. Improving access to high-quality childcare programs helps to provide structured environments where children can explore, play, and interact, fostering critical thinking, creativity, and cooperation.
From courier files…
August 18, 1949 The Corning School Band placed third and made an excellent showing at the Batesville Water Carnival, August 5. Shown above is picture of band in Parade that day at Batesville.
CHS Class of 2014 holds reunion
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Project 2025: A Looming Threat to Rural Arkansans (Part 2)
I said it before, and I’ll say it again…An extremist plan has been released and it is catching a lot of attention: Project 2025. Rural Arkansans’ rights are certainly on the chopping block with Project 2025.