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Corning Police Department Radio Log

Monday, July 22, 2024 9:07 a.m. – A female advised she spoke with State Police in Little Rock, and they are going to open a cold case on her grandfather’s murder in 1988. Advised they are suspicious about the way it was handled. She advised she had spoken with a male when he was Highway Patrol and he was vague and sketchy over the information given and that it did not coincide with the information provided in the original report. She is requesting a copy of the police report from 1988 so that the State Police and Crime Lab can reopen the case. Advised her grandmother had gone to jail for two months over it but was released due to lack of evidence. She does not know the address her grandparents lived at the time of the murder but that it was down from an old gas station by the railroad tracks. Advised the police chief. Unable to find any information on the incident.

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Karen Rainwater

Karen Rainwater, 81, of Corning, passed away on Monday, December 18, 2023, at AMMC in Paragould. She was born on April 3, 1942, the daughter of the late Elmer Lawrence Rainwater and Ivy Imogene Stevens Rainwater.

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Mrs. Jennifer VanNada 2C Santa Letters

Dear Santa, It’s me Dixie. I have been good. One thing I really want is a phone. One thing I really need is a PS5. My favorite snack is Hershey’s. Don’t forget my brother and sisters Izzy, Josh, and Amelia. I hope to hear from you soon! Love, Dixie Dear Santa, It’s me Brooklyn. I have been excellent. One thing I really want is an XBox. One thing I really need is socks. My favorite snack is goldfish. I hope to hear from you soon! Love, Brooklyn Dear Santa, It’s me Tyler Johnson. I have been excellent. One thing I really want isSpiderman. One thing I really need is a break. My favorite snack is Charleston Chews. Don’t forget my sister Quinn. I hope to hear from you soon! Love, Tyler Dear Santa, It’s me, Parker. I have been good. One thing I really want is a first edition booster box. One thing I really need is shoes and clothes. My favorite snack is deer meat. Don’t forget my sisters and brothers, Madi, Briar, Corbin, Jayden, and Whitney. I hope to hear from you soon! Love, Parker Dear Santa, It’s me, Owen Anders. I have been good. One thing I really want is the Lanky Box Plushies. One thing I really need is all of the 5 Nights of Freddy’s plushies. My favorite snack is KitKat. Don’t forget my sister Harper. I hope to hear from you soon!

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Park Elementary announces Students of the Month

Park Elementary has announced their December Students of the Month. Front row: Natalie Boshears, Callie Morgan, Quinn Johnson and Connor Green Middle row: Karson Hayes, Avery Nelson, Kash Barber, Brody Dillon, Emercyn Liles, Jaycie Hollis and Noah Gaines. Back row: Westen Melton, Blaze George, and Cash Leach Not pictured: Skylar Hill, Laiken Guthrey and Matthew Brady The word for December was CARING.

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1973 Letters to Santa

Dear Santa. I am eight years and and I am in the second grade. i would like to have a new basketball for Christmas my other one burned in the school It was brown. Please bring me a blue and white stripe. also bring me a saucy doll, a weebles marina and a cowgirl shirt. Don’t forget to fill my stocking and I have a baby brother, bring him something. Thank you, Santa, Shana Brewer.

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James Timothy Hogan

James Timothy Hogan, 68, of Corning, AR., passed away December 10, 2023 at Corning Therapy and Living Center. Mr. Hogan was born June 14, 1955 in Lake Geneva, WI. Mr. Hogan was a laborer at the sawmill for Blacks Lumber Co., he loved collecting Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars and also watching professional wrestling. He was of Church of Christ faith.

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Christmas nostalgia . . .

This time of year people become nostalgic as they watch holiday movies. They remind us of simpler times when character and traditional values mattered. We can rely on a happy ending and that good will win out in the end. We become blanketed in a secure feeling as we reminiscence about childhood memories at Christmas. The movie, “White Christmas” is playing in the background as I write this week’s column. Bing Crosby is singing “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas” to servicemen that won’t be home for Christmas during World War II. Here’s a bit of trivia, many people get the movies, “White Christmas” and “Holiday Inn” confused because they both feature the song, “White Christmas” and Bing Crosby. “Holiday Inn” was the first movie to feature the song in 1942 and Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds and Virginia Dale. Irving Berlin wrote that song and 11 other songs for the movie. The film received a 1943 Academy Award for Best Original Song with “White Christmas.” The movie, “White Christmas” came out in 1954 with Crosby and costars, Danny Kaye, and Rosemary Clooney and Vera Ellen playing the Haynes sisters. You may remember the duet they sang, “Sisters, sisters. . . There were never such devoted sisters.” Crosby and Kaye dressed as the sisters and also sang it as well. My favorite song from the movie is sung by Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney called, “Count Your Blessings”. A verse goes “When I’m worried and I can’t sleep. I count my blessings instead of sheep. And I fall asleep counting my blessings.” Counting our blessings instead of fretting about our daily problems is good advice for all of us.

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