WALNUT RIDGE, Ark. - Williams Baptist University has released the names of Alexis Taylor of Corning and Alexis Herrera of Rector as earning the recognition of making the Dean’s List for the 2022 spring semester.
Tony Berg, the popular and efficient young bookkeeper at W.R. Alexander’s mill, while helping carry away furniture from the St. James Hotel fire last Friday night, was struck on the nose by the iron end-hook of a bedrail thrown from an upstairs window, his nose was torn off and he fell to the sidewalk unconscious. Friends carried him to Dr. Simpson who sewed his nose on before he became conscious again.
The annual Pollard Picnic will be held Saturday, July 9 at Pollard, Arkansas. Fried chicken dinners, music, baseball games, games for children, and beauty pageants will highlight the picnic. The pageant committee announces the following events:
Corning, Ark. — Clay County Electric Cooperative of Corning recently returned more than $1.6 million in capital credits to their members. The not-for-profit, member-owned cooperative has retired more than $19 million in capital credits to members since 1938.
Brian Kinder high-fives Christopher Young during The Kinders’ performance at Park Elementary on June 28. It was the last program this year in the Corning Public Library’s summer reading program.
Local resident Louis Ahrent has been designated as the 2022 Corning Homecoming 4th of July Parade Grand Marshal. Parade chairman D.J. Herzog said that Louis was selected for the honor due to his steadfast civic participation in the annual Harvest Festival and 4th of July events.
There were 33 people who enjoyed the third week of the Corning Public Library’s summer reading program. Children and adults enjoyed watching Renee Bliss perform a puppet show and read a story during the summer reading program on Tuesday, June 21.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Blue & You Foundation for a Healthier Arkansas is currently accepting grant applications from public schools, governmental agencies and nonprofit groups across the Natural State. Grants of up to $150,000 are available to support programs focusing on:
The main topics of conversation were sewer mains sand, gym updates and ballfields during the June meeting of the city council. The Corning City Council meeting was postponed last week due to illness and met a week later on Monday, June 20 at 6 p.m.
LITTLE ROCK – The Arkansas School Safety Commission has been set up again to update measures to protect students while they are in school. The governor issued an executive order to reinstate the commission in the wake of the mass murder of 19 children and two adults at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24.