Stories from Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Funding secured for HPMEC (04/22/09)
Supporters of the Hemingway Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center in Piggott, along with the other ASU Heritage Sites, got some good news last week as funding for operation of the sites was approved by the Arkansas legislature...

Survivor dinner held, Relay For Life set (04/22/09)
The 11th annual Clay County Relay For Life is set for Saturday, April 25, at Heritage Park in Piggott. Monday night the week's activities officially kicked off with the fourth annual Survivor's Dinner at the Emmanuel Baptist Church of Piggott...

No truck giveaway at this year's picnic (04/22/09)
A committee made up of members of the Piggott Cemetery Association board voted recently to end the long standing tradition of giving away a new pickup at the annual Fourth of July Picnic and Celebration. Instead, there will be three winners drawn that night and each will receive a check for $5,000...

Mohawks bounced from district in round two (04/22/09)
The Piggott Mohawks ended their baseball season at home Friday afternoon, losing a 1-2 nail-bitter to the Corning Bobcats in the second round of the 3AAA-North district tournament at Independence Park. With the loss the Tribe came up just shy of a trip to this week's regional at Tuckerman, but end the season with a winning record...

Williams coaches, Rickman remembered, at Queen's of the Hardwood (04/22/09)
The tight-night family that is Northeast Arkansas volleyball, came together Friday night at one of the Mecca's of that sport in this region for the third annual Queen's of the Hardwood match. The event, a fundraiser for City Youth Ministries of Jonesboro, was held at Westside High School and featured some of the top talent from this year's graduating class...

Rice represents PHS in Sun Senior Classic (04/22/09)
Piggott's Rob Rice represented PHS Sunday in the Sun Senior Classic all-star basketball game at Jonesboro High School. Rice, a standout basketball and football player for the Tribe, played on the winning white team that was coached by Brad Brannen of the Bay Yellowjackets...

Piggott hosts district tourney (04/22/09)
For the first time in nearly a decade, Piggott hosted the high school district baseball tournament last week for 3AAA-North. The tournament kicked-off with two games on Thursday afternoon, continued with four games on Friday and wrapped up late Saturday afternoon with the third place and championship games. ...

Copycat television (04/22/09)
While flipping through the TV channels last night, I couldn't help but notice the copycats. Well, I guess we've all been copycats at some time or other. I know in high school the girls did a lot of copycatting, me included. ...

It happened here, years ago (04/22/09)
1969 Friday, April 25 was the first day to register for the first grade for the coming year..and all students from the Piggott District will register at Central Elementary since it's the only location where first graders will be attending thanks to the new busing plan. ...