Greenway News

A stunning painting of a country church in the woods, by Rector native Joel Boyd, will be auctioned by the Rector Woman's Club during Rector's annual community Christmas party Thursday night following the Rector Christmas parade.

U.S. Senators Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor and U.S. Representative Marion Berry announced last week the Arkansas Department of Transportation was awarded two grants totaling $2,388,699 for Crowley's Ridge Parkway Trail.

According to archive issues of The Piggott Times, the first derby was held the evening of Thursday, Aug.

Fire destroyed a Rector landmark Saturday evening, as the historic lumber shed at the corner of South Main and West Fifth Streets burned.

The Rector Pallet Company was the victim of a fire on Saturday night. The fire was so large that fire departments from Rector, Ark., Piggott, Ark., Kennett, Greenway, Ark., and Northeast Greene County responded as mutual aid.

Huge balls of fire leapt to the sky Saturday night as firefighters from six area fire departments battled an inferno at a Rector pallet company, housed in the former Rector Lumber Company building at Main and West Fifth Streets.

Several classes from Piggott High School are planning reunions for the Fourth of July weekend, here is an overview for those out of towners who don't subscribe to the full print on-line edition.

Dereta Palmer has been in the third grade for 33 years. This is not due to any difficulty she faced with the class work; rather it comes from her knowledge of the subject matter, as she has spent all of her years as a public school educator instructing third grade students.

Fire destroyed the home of a Rector family during a weekend blaze. According to a Rector Fire Department report, a call was received around 8:15 p.m. Friday reporting a fire at the Veronica Spears residence at 614 South Park Street.