Ice and snow cling to the newly-budded leaves of a red maple tree in Gentry on Saturday. Photo by Randy Moll
Temperatures fell and rains changed over to sleet and then snow earlier today, at times covering the ground with up to an inch of wet snow and ice.
Temperatures are forecast to continue to fall during [...]
Gentry Farmers’ Market will this year be the Coop Market and will be located in a yet-to-be-built structure at the Chicken Coop Flea Market. An opening date has been set for May 2. For more information on the market and its additional days of operation, see next week’s print issue of the Courier-Journal.
Gentry High School’s prom date has been set for Saturday, April 4. An after-prom breakfast is being planned following the formal event.
Each year parents, family members and area businesses have worked together to provide a safe, alcohol-free event for students, following the prom.
A breakfast will be served at the Gentry United Methodist Church fellowship [...]
Gentry’s only full-line grocery store will stay open after all.
Gentry’s Save Mart grocery store came close to closing. Its last day was slated for Sunday, March 29. But after some re-evaluation at Affiliated Foods, a decision was made to keep the store open – good news for Gentry residents.
See the full story in the March [...]
Current edition: Wednesday, March 25, 2009
News
Hometown Events
Safari offers family fun close to home
Man arrested for stabbing
Grocery store to remain open
Sheriff to open office in Siloam Springs
Gentry police make two felony arrests
Community
Safety the goal of concealed carry
Babb-Shafer plan May wedding
BWRPWA asks customers to use less water until Friday
For The Record
Obituaries
Weekly devotion
Witcher inducted to Sigma Tau Delta
Peachees [...]
Peach and nectarine trees were in full blossom last week at Taylor’s Orchard in Gentry. As long as temperatures remain above freezing, the likelihood of an abundant fruit crop looks good. Weather forecasters, however, are predicting the possibility of some freezing temperatures and snow showers this Saturday.
Late freezes destroyed the peach crop in the entire [...]
Proof of publication from the Gentry Journal in 1895
GENTRY — While some histories of Gentry list its incorporation date as in 1894, the town was actually not incorporated until 1895.
According to the Gentry Journal’s certification of publication of the Notice of Incorporation Petition, pictured above, the petition to incorporate Gentry was filed at the [...]
BENTON COUNTY — The Benton Washington Regional Public Water Authority — a regional wholesale drinking water provider to Water District No. 1 (including the towns of Avoca and Little Flock), Bella Vista Property Owners Association, Centerton, Decatur, Garfield, Gateway Public Water Authority, Gentry, Gravette, Highfill, Lost Bridge Village, Lincoln, Pea Ridge, Prairie Grove, Siloam Springs, [...]
Gentry baseball coach Marty Edmiston coaches senior Josh Corter before Corter bats against Gravette on Monday. Corter is the team’s catcher.
Gentry’s next home game is against Farmington at 4:30 p.m., Monday, March 23.
The girls’ softball team plays at home against Elkins at 5 p.m., Thursday, March 19.
Current edition: Wednesday, March 18, 2009
News
Hometown Events
School board adopts more cuts
Bridge route: Plans draw objections from town residents
SAC offers van transportation
Highfill approves tractor purchase
Odyssey of Mind teams advance
Tree donations accepted in Highfill
School News
Lady Pioneers give up their early lead against Lady Lions
Gentry loses close game with Gravette
Soccer teams play Huntsville
Lady Bulldogs pick up win
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