100 years ago
Feb. 2, 1919
• That the agricultural situation confronting Arkansas for the coming year is a most serious one, was the opinion expressed by Governor Brough yesterday, after he had consulted with C.W. Watson, state agent of the United States Department of Agriculture, and H.M. Cottrell, agriculturist of the Arkansas Profitable Farming Bureau of the Little Rock Board of Commerce. Mr. Watson and Mr. Cottrell told the governor that the boll weevil threatens to do more damage to cotton next season than ever before in the history of the state.
50 years ago
Feb. 2, 1969
• College Station was assured Saturday of its new multipurpose Community Center as the result of response to the appeal of a special committee for funds to meet a February 1 deadline. The response was so favorable that while the amount needed was virtually assured, the deadline was extended two weeks with the concurrence of Mrs. Rose Ruffin, owner of the property, who originally had set the February 1 purchase deadline.
25 years ago
Feb. 2, 1994
PRATTSVILLE -- Residents in this rural Grant County town are split on where they want their children to attend school next year, a move that will have to be made since the Prattsville School Board decided earlier this month to shut down operations. To settle the issue, the Grant County Board of Education decided Monday to call for a special election March 8, board President William Sheppard said. The vote could overturn the board's decision to consolidate with the Sheridan School District about eight miles east of Prattsville.
10 years ago
Feb. 2, 2009
• In 14 years as a North Little Rock police officer, Phil Lowry doesn't remember any time before the past few weeks when morale seemed as low. ... First, Chief Danny Bradley enforced for the first time a policy on the books since 2004 requiring all personnel who carry a personal cell phone during working hours to turn over itemized phone bills. Just as that was being resolved with the union agreeing not to fight it, Bradley announced that he wanted to do away with fixed shifts on a one-year trial basis, meaning even officers with seniority who now get their pick of shifts instead would rotate every few months among the department's three shifts -- days, evenings and midnights. "Now guys are just looking over their shoulders all the time," Lowry said. "Everybody's wondering what's next."
Metro on 02/02/2019