For the Week in Clark County History, we combed through bound copies of the Daily Siftings Herald to choose some front-page news from editions dating 10, 20 and 30 years ago.
This week 10 years ago (2013)
A new policy approved by Arkansas legislators allowed home-schooled students to participate in extracurricular activities, voiding a similar measure the Arkadelphia Board of Education had approved two months prior.
Church Women United raised $3,400 from pecan sales to benefit various local nonprofit organizations.
An event that would later be dubbed Crawfest was held in downtown Arkadelphia, drawing in scores of residents to Clinton Street to listen to live music and watch a crawfish-eating contest won that year by Kendal Land.
This week 20 years ago (2003)
Clark County’s delegation of state lawmakers both told the newspaper they supported a tax increase on wholesale cigarette sales, saying the “sin” tax was one of the last resorts in raising enough money to fund the state government.
Caddo Valley’s city council members were wrestling with ways to tackle a $41,000 budget deficit.
This week 30 years ago (1993)
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. was set to invest some $231 million to enhance and modernize the state’s telephone network.
Clark County deputies seized 200 marijuana plants in what they estimated to be a half-million-dollar indoor operation off of Route 3. The South Central Drug Task Force said it was the largest indoor operation they had seen in southern Arkansas.
Henderson State University professor Johnnie Roebuck took 35 Arkadelphia High School students on a field trip to two state prisons as part of a practical law elective she taught at the high school.
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