Stories from Friday, January 14, 2011

BERRYVILLE -- Public testing of electronic voting machines was set to take place today, Friday, to prepare for a special election scheduled for Feb. 8. The election was called by a petition of the people who wanted a county-wide vote to decide the fate of a Public Facilities Board created by the quorum court to bring water to rural residents...

Great American Publishers in Kosciusko, Miss. is embarking on a journey to discover and preserve America's traditions, one state at a time. The quest will be chronicled in the new cookbook series titled Eat & Explore State Cookbook Series, and the Natural State is where it begins...

My middle school-aged sons have reached a new challenge in their sports career. This year they began serious athletic conditioning in their Physical Education class (times being what they are, I'm glad P.E. is still required). Gone are the romping-around-days of freeze-tag and unruly dodge ball games. Now they have to meet physical strength standards and run the mile every week...

GREEN FOREST -- The Lady Tigers didn't let Homecoming on Friday, Jan. 11, distract them from the task at hand as they upped their record to 15-1 with a 46-28 victory over the Elkins Lady Elks. The Tiger boys couldn't run with the fast-breaking Elks and suffered a 25-68 loss...

Katherine Higgins Clay was born September 14, 1926 in Heavener, OK, the second child of Luther and Pauline Higgins. The family moved to Tulsa, OK where Katy graduated from Tulsa Central High in 1944. Katherine married Russell Vernon Clay June 2, 1946 at the church in which they met before the war. They enjoyed 63 years together...

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EUREKA SPRINGS -- If you were asked to write a poem made up of tercets (three-line poetic stanzas) and include a simile, a metaphor and a reference to a recipe, could you do it? Not many could, but students at the Eureka Springs Elementary School were up to that task and others when Fayetteville Poet Laureate Clayton Scott visited last week...