Opinion

Summer is a time for kids to kick back, take a break from routine, and enjoy lazy days. It also, in many cases, is when learning loss-aka “The Summer Slide” can take place. Summer setbacks are nothing new regarding academics and the phenomenon has been researched by educators since the beginning of time. On average, student achievement can decline over the summer by up to a third of a prior year’s learning gains. Loss is usually greater in mathematics than reading, and higher grade leveled students are more noticeably affected than younger learners. The summer slide can be measured in both social skills and classroom discipline, in addition to academics.

LITTLE ROCK – The economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic was especially hard for child care centers, so the Arkansas Department of Human Services is administering about $286 million to help them cover expenses and remain in business.

This week, officials from the Arkansas Center for School Safety (ACSS) provided members of the House and Senate Education Committees with an update on school safety measures taken in recent years. In 2018, the Governor created the Safe Schools Commission to assess the state of school security in Arkansas.

If you take financial advice from this column, in the future, you may not be able to afford to read this column. That said… let’s talk digital currencies. There are more than 18,000 cryptocurrencies on the market but what is it? Most agree it’s a digital currency that operates outside the traditional government/banking control, instead using public ledgers known as blockchains. But did you know that anyone can make a digital currency with a little coding? Yes, you and I can make our own digital currency. Late Show host Stephen Colbert’s crypto is called Ijustmadethatupeum. But is it a currency?

I want to begin with an apology to all those who have scientific minds. I realize without science we wouldn’t have all the medical advancements which have saved numerous lives; we wouldn’t have inventions such as the automobile, and discoveries like electricity. This is simply about the fact that I personally never had a scientific mind. Sheldon Cooper I am not.

Show me a town with a well-groomed and maintained cemetery and I’ll show you a town that takes pride in its history and people. I’ve said that more than once. A sea of colorful flowers adorning graves all across the Corning Cemetery last Sunday afternoon prior to Memorial Day was visible proof that people care about the Corning Cemetery and more importantly their loved ones buried there. And I personally know people care about our cemetery based on the number of times I have been approached or called by people who ask me what we can do about its condition. People spend money and time on decorating graves throughout the year. As some would say around these parts, “And flowers ain’t cheap!” Some families purchase their flowers and create their own arrangements and saddles. Others buy premade arrangements or bouquets of flowers.

June, according to the folks who figure out such things, is National Rose Month. That’s okay with me, so long as they are red.

Burgulars “ yeggemen” or cracksmen broke into the post office here last night and blew the doors off of Postmaster Dudgeon’s new safe with nitroglycerin. probably obtaining a considerable amount of postage stamps. A number of persons in the south part of town say they heard as many as four explosions reports about 12:30 or 1 o’ clock this morning. The burglars failed to get into E.A. Kelly and Company safe. The charge of the explosive tore a hole in the bottom of the outside door and knocked a leg and roller off one of the front corners, allowing the safe to fall over on the face. which prevented further operations on account of the heavy weight of the safe. Every town the size and importance of Corning ought to have a night Marshal watchman or detective. George A. Booser of the Booser Slack Barrel Manufactory, and by the way one of the enterprises of which Corning is proud, is feeling mighty good these dusty days, especially since the election. Booser is now putting in an electric dynamo which will furnish electric lights throughout his entire establishment. The lights will be used during the afternoon and all night, and an extra force of men will be put to work as soon as the new improvement is installed. He now has at his manufactury between 25 and 30 regular employed men and in the future that number will be greatly increased. Rev. A.E. Hollaway and family left the first of the week to attend Methodist conference at Augustus. Mr. Holloway carried a most satisfactory report to make for Corning M.E. Church for the past year. It shows that 57 members have been added to this church, that the pastor’s salary $600, has been overpaid by $200 and a surplus left on hand that all benevolent collections asked for have been paid, that the Sunday school collections for the year amounted to over $201, that $350 have been raised and expended on church and parsonage improvements, that the Ladies Aid Society raised and expended about $300. Total for all church purposes, over $1700. and $ 250 more than for the year previous. Do you know that I have got the only fresh candy in Corning. It is made fresh each day. Sugar retails at seven cents per pound. Pure candy is made from sugar. H. Holtzmen, Vandover building.

LITTLE ROCK – The state Forestry Division is known for managing woodlands, helping control fires and supporting rural fire departments. Not so well known is its work in cities and towns.

Arkansas is home to so many families of brave men and women who deserve our recognition this Memorial Day. More than 2,183 Arkansans lost their lives fighting in World War 1.