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We are celebrating our school counselors during the month of February. School counselors offer a unique contribution to a school district.

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March 14, 2013 Widows and widowers were honored guests in a special “You Are Loved” Valentine’s Banquet Saturday night in the fellowship hall of First Baptist Church in Corning. The event was coordinated by Corrie Keltner.

The University of Central Arkansas has named Chelbi LeGrand to the Fall 2023 Dean’s List. LeGrand has been recognized as a student who has earned a 3.50 or higher, grade point average on a minimum of twelve hours of undergraduate degree credit during the 2023 Fall semester.

Every two years the Arkansas Division of Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation creates Statewide Needs Lists and as a part of the lists, school facilities are ranked from the greatest to the least need. The Corning High School campus was reported in the top 3% of the worst facilities out of 982 schools.

When I was growing up in the early 1980s, we had a weekly newspaper in our town. There was a woman assigned to cover our little neighborhood. I remember her calling each week to ask my mother what was new in our family. Did Jeremy make the honor roll this quarter? Had we gone on vacation recently? Did we get a new pet? She would take this information from anyone in the neighborhood who was willing to share it and would write a column each week. When the paper came out on Wednesdays, my mother was always excited to read what was going on in the neighborhood. Everyone on our street knew each other. We played outside with the kids every day until dusk. My parents were in a bowling league with our neighbors. We had a block party in the street in the summer. When a new family moved in everyone welcomed them and introduced themselves. I guess you could say it was a great community. A few years later when I was in the seventh grade we moved to a new neighborhood. There was no one there to welcome us. There were no block parties. No one played out in the street. Everyone kept to themselves. There also was no one from the weekly newspaper calling to get information to report about the neighborhood. It certainly felt like less of a community. It never occurred to me until I became involved with community newspapers that the difference between the two neighborhoods was the newspaper. Without the weekly story telling of the life events of our neighbors it became easy to lose connections.

Corning High School seniors participated in the “Get Real” program Wednesday, January 24, 2024, provided by Clay County Cooperative Extension FCS Agent Christin Holmes. The program is a hands-on experiential simulation that teaches young people about personal financial management.