Recollections

40 Years Ago

Wednesday, Sept. 25, 1974

Pea Ridge Graphic-Scene

Claiming a lion's share of the awards in the Holstein division in the Benton County Fair cattle judging was Randy Beaver, 16, of Pea Ridge. Lamar Steiger of Route 4, Bentonville, captured first place for senior yearling heifer in the Charolais category.

The Pea Ridge School Board heard school superintendent Roy Roe report that the school enrollment at the end of the first two weeks of school stood at 574, with 314 in elementary school and 260 in high school. The school board also accepted from the contractor the new elementary addition and the new gymnasium.

30 Years Ago

Wednesday, Sept. 26, 1984

Pea Ridge Country Times

The total raised towards a backup, or new, ambulance for the Volunteer Ambulance Service of Northeast Benton County by the party Saturday night amounted to $1,833.84, Janette Bell told members of the VAS board at their Monday night meeting.

Kiwanis is back in Pea Ridge. It has organized, elected officers and held the first of its weekly meetings Tuesday morning in the Home Economics building at Pea Ridge High School. Officers elected were: Tim Summers, president; Rodney Harmon, president-elect; Rusty Webb, vice president; Jim Cheek, secretary; and Fred McKinney, treasurer.

Garfield School, newly remodelled and spruced up for a new lease on life, is bursting its seams, and some area students are being asked to attend other schools in the district. Five of the school's seven grades are at capacity. The school is no longer accepting enrollments for those grades.

20 Years Ago

Thursday, Sept. 29, 1994

The TIMES of Northeast Benton County

The U.S. Postal Service has reopened bidding on a contract for a new post office facility in Pea Ridge, said the man who handles property leases for postal facilities in Arkansas. The Postal Service also asked for bids for postal facilities in Garfield and Gravette. The new buildings will each contain 4,725 square feet, about four times the size of the existing Pea Ridge Post Office.

Former Pea Ridge Policeman Duane Oliver, who has filed to run for mayor of Pea Ridge, has been allowed to resign from the Police Department after all. The Pea Ridge City Council earlier had refused to accept his resignation and decided to fire him instead, contending that he had abandoned his post his last night on the job.

Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Raymond Fletcher, son of Carroll and Catherine Fletcher of Pea Ridge, recently returned from operations of the coast of Haiti aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Inchon. Fletcher departed for the Caribbean in June, just 12 days after returning from a six-month Mediterranean Sea deployment. The 1990 graduate of Pea Ridge High School joined the Navy in January 1991.

10 Years Ago

Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2004

The TIMES of Northeast Benton County

Pea Ridge Mayor Jackie Crabtree officially became the city's first full-time mayor Sept. 21, when the City Council passed an ordinance with an emergency clause granting Crabtree full-time status retroactively to Sept. 1.

The Northeast Benton County Volunteer Fire Department had planned to be in its new fire station in time for this year's Turkey Shoot. They almost made it. Instead of having the Turkey Shoot dinner inside a finished station as planned, diners sat on the concrete floor under the roof of a building with unfinished walls and without doors.