Opinion

Home, a simple word that strikes a chord deep inside of us. As they say, “Home is where the heart is.” Sometimes home isn’t a physical place any longer. It’s a place in time we long to return to again. Curly Putman wrote a song that has been sung by many people, that Porter Wagoner made popular in 1965, called, “Green, Green Grass of Home” about a man sentenced to die in prison dreaming of home. Is there anything better than the feeling of coming home where your people love you just as you are? Home is forever in our memory. People in prison, hospitals, soldiers serving their country, nursing homes, kids away at camp, anyone physically away from their home place rely on their memory and recognize that deep desire for home. They know that home is often, people.

H. W. Lasater, Dr. Green and C.L Daniel have started the ball to rolling and now there is to be a grand ball and a general good time among the terpsichoreans once a week, every 'Thursday evening, at the courthouse, the second story of which has been renovated and otherwise prepared for the dancers. Henry Barnhall has gone into the fishing business and caught a 46 pound catfish out of Black River one day last week. E.V. Sheeks is having the poles set for the electric street lights and has placed an order for the dynamo, which will be shipped as soon as the manufacturers can get it ready which will be about three weeks. Since the Knobel Club determined to build a new and elegant cottage at Corning Lake in addition to the club house it has there, several members have been added. On July 4th there will be a celebration on the shores of Corning Lake that will stir up the natives, the occasion being the formal opening of the ladies' annex building; There will be music, fireworks, fishing, feasting and a Fourth of July oration by Uncle Alex H. Smith on the stories of this great country, its fish and game and especially the beauties and attractions of Knobel Club's preserve. The Knobel Club contains the names of most of the representative citizens of St. Louis. If all the devils were cast out of some people there would not be much left. Men will wrangle for religion-write for it, fight for it, die for it-anything but live for it. W.A. Vandover will soon let the contractor for the building of a fine residence for himself and family in the Western part of town. The Corning Brass Band has been recently reorganized and is making progress practicing for the IOOF celebration at Jonesboro. Pat Martin and a large force of men engaged in an old fashioned logrolling on Martin's farm near Moark today. It is said the H.H. Williams expects soon to build a new railroad from Williams Switch, on the Iron Mountain, over the right-of-way of the old Arkansas-Northeastern to Success, and maybe on to Maynard, for the purpose of hauling timber, principally railroad crossties from Little Black and Current River bottoms. Why not have the road built from Corning instead of Williams switch to Maynard?

Hello everyone. Happy New Year! So far 2022 has been good to us! Old Man Winter has finally showed up too. Maybe I will get to use my Snowman kits I got for Christmas! My son, Derek had his 29th birthday on December 31st. He will be 30 this December. He shares his birthday with his great-uncle Kelsey Vallance and also his cousin, Gavin Ross. My husband and I were able to celebrate New Year's Eve with both sides of the family this year. We had all the babies together at New Year's Eve.

LITTLE ROCK – When the new year begins, the Arkansas Works program will have a new name and will operate under new rules. ARHOME is the new Medicaid program.

Budget Hearings to begin January 11 The Arkansas General Assembly will convene for the 2022 Fiscal Session on Monday, February 14. Preparations for that session will begin in the next two weeks.

Grandpa, Tell Me About the Good Old Days This song became a hit for The Judds in 1986. It has special meaning, because in July of 1987, my parents went with us to Murray, Kentucky, to visit our daughter, a student at Murray State University.

I became a teacher mainly because of the tremendous impact several teachers had on developing me into who I am today. My hope was that I could have that same impact on my students, not just in becoming knowledgeable learners (which the great teachers of my past always strived for with me), but also because of how they taught me to become a better person.