The following article appears in the August 2022 issue of Editor and Publisher and is published in the Clay County Courier with permission. By Alyssa Choiniere Editor and Publisher CherryRoad Media CEO and founder Jeremy Gulban started his business with specific goals and values in mind but without a specific set of plans.
Bobcats run drills on the practice field at sunrise on Wednesday morning. The Cats begin practice at 6 a.m.
Tuesday, August 2, the city held a public meeting at City Hall at 6 p.m. to identify potential outdoor park and recreation needs in order to apply for a grant from the Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism. The public was invited in order to begin the identification process of the recreation needs of the community. The public meeting was deemed necessary during last month’s city council meeting on Thursday, July 7, after the council passed Resolution 2022-07, a resolution to obtain the funds necessary to develop and/ or improve the site of the swimming pool through an Outdoor Recreation and Matching Grant from ADPHT. At that time Mayor Greg Ahrent explained that the city was looking into a matching grant. He stated the grant amount could be up to $500,000 if awarded to the city. Ahrent said the pool is structurally good, but the main issue concerns the wading pool and filtration.
Artist Braden Walls has just completed his most recent artwork, “Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder”, a 80’ x 35’ mural in downtown Jonesboro on 311 S Main Street. The site of the mural on the Roman Touch building, known as a beauty salon, is one that Walls has wanted to paint for several years. When the building recently came under new ownership, he reached out to them about painting a mural and they agreed. The owners wanted the painting to be about beauty and since the building is called Roman Touch the artist started to research Roman and Greek architecture and mythology. Braden shared a few sketches with the owners, and they agreed to an image of a deconstructed and reassembled three-dimensional portrait of Aphrodite/Venus - the Goddess of Beauty and Love. Walls explained the butterflies are also a representation of beauty and are the Arkansas State Butterfly - Diana Fritillary. “The checkerboard floor symbolizes both duality and balance and I thought added a nice aesthetic,” he said. Prior to this project he had never painted a surface of this magnitude, used spray paint or a lift. He painted the mural with MTN 94 spray paint and used the doodle grid method to scale the portrait to size. The mural took just under two weeks and around 80 hours to complete.
Due to a shortage of available bus drivers, Corning Schools will no longer be able to run intown bus routes as the district has done in the past three years. School buses will make designated stops at Stephens Lane and Gregory Lane in the Arnold Addition, Lyndale Addition, Westwood Acres, Melanie Heights, and on the East side of Corning (2nd Street) across the railroad tracks. Buses will also run from Park Elementary to the high school/ middle school and back to take students to their appropriate campuses.
LITTLE ROCK – Governor Asa Hutchinson today released the Interim Report of the Arkansas School Safety Commission. The report emphasized the importance of districts using layered, comprehensive school safety strategies and ensuring school safety policies and procedures are being followed.
Direct Marketing and Verifiable Records details The new Direct Marketing and Verifiable Records section requires producers to notify the FCIC and complete a marketing certification if they intend to direct market any portion of their crop or do not have acceptable verifiable records when required under the policy. Producers must complete these two requirements by the acreage reporting date for their crop.
Hello everyone. The Keeling family had a family reunion on July 31st at Reynolds Park in Paragould. Everyone had a good time visiting and enjoying the good food. Around 150 or so attended. We have lost so many in the past few months. I read something the other day about grief and one paragraph stuck with me. “Death is part of life, we all have to go through it some day when our time comes. Until then, look toward today and tomorrow, keep the past in the past. It’s a way of life. Just not our time yet, but theirs.” Author unknown. I can’t remember where I read though.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — If the proposed America Competes Act is passed, the United States will see a “revolutionary change in trade law,” Stephen Vaden, judge on the Court of International Trade, told attendees at this year’s Mid-South Agricultural and Environmental Law Conference.