Corning News

The Piggott Radio Control Modelers will host the 14th annual Spring Fun-Fly and competition at 9 a.m. Saturday, June 7. The event will be held at Mayo Field, which is located three quarters of a mile east of the Piggott Swimming Pool.

After weeks of fierce competition and intense study on the influence and danger of drugs, Rector Elementary School sixth graders graduated Thursday, April 30, from the school's DARE program, pledging to keep their lives free from the horrors of drug use.

A doctor who promised to practice medicine in Corning in exchange for a loan to defray medical school expenses must pay nearly $19,000 to the Clay County town because he never worked there, according to a ruling Wednesday by the Arkansas Court of Appeals.

The Clay County Sheriff's Department currently is seeking grants in order to add a new deputy and help with the cost of purchasing new vehicles.

A small airplane has crashed in Corning, according to authorities, but no one was hurt.

PARAGOULD/CORNING, AR - Smokers in Region 8 and across the country will be paying even higher prices for tobacco products April 1st when a new federal tobacco tax takes effect.

Rector, Piggott and Corning were among several Arkansas cities receiving airport improvement grants in a meeting of the Arkansas Board of Aeronautics held Thursday morning, March 19, at the IMAX Theater in Little Rock.

The Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas says its line workers remain vigilant in their efforts to restore power to approximately 2,970 members that do not have electric service as the result of the January ice ...

Published: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 2:50 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 2:50 p.m. The government has provided $429 million to 29 banks in the latest batch of investments under the $700 ...

Conditions are progressing in Clay County, following a total effort by officials, employees and volunteers.

Arkansas electric cooperatives have restored electric service for approximately 184,702 members, while 25,598 remain without power in wake of the recent ice storm.

As Rector reeled from the impact of the ice storm, the call for assistance went out.

This scene from early last Wednesday showed West Court Street in Piggott coated in about two inches of ice, which reflected brightly in the morning sun.

The Northeast Arkansas Chapter American Red Cross and other community organizations are opening shelters in several locations.

A growing number of line and right-of-way crews continue restoring power to cooperative members across the northern tier of Arkansas.

A second 4-County Electric Power Association crew is on its way to Corning, Ark., to assist in restoring power to residents suffering in the wake of recent ice storms.

Over two dozen leaders from across Clay County gathered at the city hall in Piggott last Wednesday to discuss renewing efforts on the Boydsville Lake project.

Update from the statewide Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas office: As the storms move out of Arkansas, more than 187,000 electric cooperative members are without power and electric cooperatives in the northern ...

Hetzel, the son of Mindy and Glen Hetzel of Jennings, La., took the NRM Scholarship $3,500 grand prize with his September campaign, "From the Fields of Hathaway," a multi-media campaign featuring news stories ...

The Clay County Extension Service will host their 2009 Rice and Soybean Production Meeting and Ag Expo beginning at 8 a.m. with sign-in Monday, Feb.