The junior high Gentry Pioneer Relays were held in Pioneer Stadium yesterday afternoon. The senior high Relays are set for 3:30 p.m. tomorrow (Thursday). The seventh grade meet, canceled on Monday, has been rescheduled for this Friday at 3:30 p.m. For more photos and results (as they become available) see the print issue of the [...]
Current edition: Wednesday, April 29, 2009
News
Cutting expenses:
Hometown Events
Earth Day observed at Eagle Watch
Highfill to leasepurchase grader
Farmers’ market to open Saturday
County will not pay $1.4 million to TNT Dirtworks
Reorganization plan a reality
FEMA to reimburse county $1.5 million
Education Homemakers meet
For The Record
Obituaries
Spring health fair is May 9 at SSMH
Opinion
Griz Bear Comments: Trying to write on the lighter [...]
The word “bomb” on a boys’ bathroom wall led to a precautionary evacuation and search of Gentry High School this morning, but nothing was found and the writing on the wall may have been there since yesterday, police said. For more information on the scare, see the April 29 print issue of the Courier-Journal.
The Gentry School Board, at a special meeting Thursday afternoon, voted to award Janco, Inc. the school’s custodial services contract because of the necessity placed upon the district to cut expenses – not because of any dissatisfaction with the services of in-house custodians. The decision, it was estimated, will save the district more than $100,000 [...]
For those wondering what’s happening with all the work on the front of Gentry’s Senior Activity Center building, it’s getting a face lift.
Using brick left over from the library renovation, Robert Krein’s masonry business is putting up a brick veneer on the front of the building to make it better match its historic surroundings.
Once that [...]
Current edition: Wednesday, April 22, 2009
News
Highfill’s wastewater plant wins award
Hometown Events
Intent or the letter of the law?
Gentry to receive park grant
Ordinance would require developers to upgrade streets
Community
TNT cleanup bill topic of county session
Hendren plans run for U.S. Senate seat
Lowell traffic stop ends in shooting
Keeping the past in the present
For The Record
Weekly devotion: [...]
We are republishing the Wilda McChristian obituary here and in next week’s issue of the Courier-Journal and Decatur Herald because an error was made by the funeral home in sending the accompanying photograph. The correct photograph was supplied for the obituary above.
An announcement was received Tuesday afternoon that a special Gentry School Board meeting was called for 5:30 p.m., Thursday, in the central office board room.
On the agenda are the following items:
Report on American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009;
Further consideration of bond restructure proposals from
April 13 meeting;
Consideration of final award of custodial service contract
to [...]
Things were cranking up today at the Tired Iron of the Ozarks show grounds south of Gentry in preparation for the three-day show which begins tomorrow.
Old tractors were being lined up for showing and the parade of power. The sawmill was being fired up and readied for operation. Buildings to house tractors and equipment were [...]