Joyce Dees turns her legislative terms to health consultant

Joyce Dees turns her legislative terms to health consultant

This is the fourth installment of a series during Women’s History Month on local women who have served in the Arkansas Legislature. Most of the information in this story is from the newly published University of Arkansas Press Book by Lindsley and Stephen Smith, “Stateswomen: A Centennial History of Arkansas Women Legislators, 1922-2022.” Some of…

Arkansas ag researchers seek climate-resilient rice as part of USDA grant

Arkansas ag researchers seek climate-resilient rice as part of USDA grant

STUTTGART, Ark. — Scientists at the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture’s Rice Research and Extension Center seek to develop rice that is more resilient in the face of climate change and usable water depletion. Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station scientists Nick Bateman, associate professor and extension entomologist, and Stan De Guzman, assistant professor and…

Pastime: Dishware back in the day, service stations, grocery stores or ‘Green Stamps’

Pastime: Dishware back in the day, service stations, grocery stores or ‘Green Stamps’

Here is a Pastime from my childhood of families like mine collecting everyday dishware sets at local service stations, grocery stores or with the amassing of those coveted “green stamps.” I can recall when the Gulf Station gave away Ironstone – a name brand dishware set for faithful patrons at its stations. If you, for…

Pastime: The Homecoming Week activities included parade, floats, and fun…

Pastime: The Homecoming Week activities included parade, floats, and fun…

As football season progresses, the recent court of Homecoming at Warren High School was announced. And this Pastime leads us back to the Homecoming festivities of yesteryear. Oh the weeks leading to football Homecoming was indeed a social, school and community activity that still lives on as a pastime to cherish. First there was the…

Happy Birthday Joe Purcell! Friday marked 99 years since his birth

Happy Birthday Joe Purcell! Friday marked 99 years since his birth

Friday marked a special local historical occasion: On this Day in Arkansas History – June 29, 1923 – 99 Years Ago – Joe Purcell was born in Warren (Bradley County). Purcell was a lawyer and politician who shocked the political establishment in 1966 by defeating the state’s colorful attorney general, Bruce Bennett, in the Democratic…

Pastime: ‘Warren’s Welcome Center’…Now found at Molly’s Diner

Pastime: ‘Warren’s Welcome Center’…Now found at Molly’s Diner

As one of those many Bradley Countians, calling home someplace other than the sandy loam soil in Southeast Arkansas – I gravitate to the ‘Warren Welcome Center,” upon each and every visit back home.     Once, for generations before me, it was a place called Glasgow’s Soda Fountain on the West Side of Main Street, across…

New UA Press Book Highlights Memories of Jerome, Rohwer Internees

New UA Press Book Highlights Memories of Jerome, Rohwer Internees

Special to the Saline River Chronicle FAYETTEVILLE – A very interesting first-person look at the Japanese-American Internment Camps in Southeast Arkansas has been published by the University of Arkansas Press.  “Jerome and Rohwer: Memories of Japanese American Internment In World War II Arkansas,” edited by Walter M. Imahara and David E. Meltzer, is a 228-page…

Warren native, Harvey Donegan, topic of 81st Arkansas Historical Association Session recently

Warren native, Harvey Donegan, topic of 81st Arkansas Historical Association Session recently

Special to the Saline River Chronicle A very esoteric look at New York’s Avant guard lifestyles by the collection and writings of former Bradley County resident was a part of the 81st Annual Meeting of the Arkansas Historical Association last week. The AHA met on Zoom for the 20-minute scholarly presentations in lieu of meeting in…