100 years ago
Jan. 2, 1917
• The addresses during the second Arkansas profitable farming campaign, which will begin next Monday, will be made by some of the best known agricultural experts in the South, experts of the United States Department of Agriculture, practically all the Arkansas agricultural experts and by farmers and business men of the state. The business men, however, will under no consideration attempt to advise the farmers as to farming.
50 years ago
Jan. 2, 1967
• Eight months ago, the Arkansas Highway Department, armed with a $38,868 appropriation and federal funds provided by the Highway Beautification Act, declared war on the junk and automobile salvage yards along the highways. Of the five salvage yards in Pulaski County slated for "beautification," three have been surrounded by decorative redwood screens, another is due a screening in the near future, and the fifth has been planted in shrubbery that will eventually hide it from view. All the yards are on the south side of U.S. Highway 70, east of North Little Rock.
25 years ago
Jan. 2, 1992
• There are no guidelines to determine whether controversial groups may be barred from participating in the state's Adopt-A-Highway program, according to the program's policy statement. "It doesn't spell out specifics," said Bill Stanton, public affairs officer for the state Highway and Transportation Department. "It doesn't define eligible groups as such." And the state representative who introduced in 1987 a resolution that led to the program's creation said Tuesday she never anticipated such a problem would develop.
10 years ago
Jan. 2, 2007
• Six Little Rock city directors and the city's first new mayor in 14 years filed down the marble steps of City Hall's rotunda on Monday and one by one ushered in the new year by raising their right hands, placing their left hands on a black bible and reciting the oath of office. With family members and supporters looking on -- children, spouses and campaign workers took turns holding the Bible then carefully placed Little Rock lapel pins on their loved ones -- the newly elected and incumbents took part in a time-honored ceremony that will be repeated all over Pulaski County and the nation this month. "It helps signify the closing of one book and the opening up the first chapter of another," said Mark Stodola, who became the 72nd mayor of Little Rock as predecessor Jim Dailey looked on from the front row.
Metro on 01/02/2017