100 years ago
Feb. 17, 1915
LEAD HILL -- "Granny" Wagoner, 113 years old, will no longer live on the ragged edges of uncertainty. A few days ago the legislature passed a bill granting her a Confederate pension. When she was told that she had been granted a pension she was highly elated, and said she "lowed the 'old Marster,'" as she terms the Lord, "would look after her." This is the first thing in Granny's long, eventful life that she ever got without desperately hard work.
50 years ago
Feb. 17, 1965
HOT SPRINGS -- A guest at a downtown hotel, Sidney Roth of East Orange, N.J., reported to police Tuesday that during the night his room was entered while he was asleep and $180 was taken from his wallet. Roth told officers that before going to bed he had locked the door, but that three $50 bills and three $10 bills were missing Tuesday morning. In a similar incident at the same hotel Joseph Kelly of St. Louis reported $50 was taken from his wallet while he slept. The police report said Kelly had not locked his door.
25 years ago
Feb. 17, 1990
• Accompanied by the banshee screams of 10,000 and a hot five-piece band, New Kids on the Block romped through a flawlessly produced 100-minute show Friday night at Barton Coliseum. The sell-out crowd was on its feet, the fans shrieking their little hearts out throughout a set that featured most of the big hits from the group's two best-selling Columbia albums.
10 years ago
Feb. 17, 2005
CONWAY -- The Conway Planning Commission is expected to vote Feb. 28 on a proposed residential development at the site of the former Cadron Valley Country Club. Tim O'Brien, commission chairman, said Wednesday that the panel will meet at 7 p.m. at the District Court building, where it will discuss the matter as a committee before going into regular session. The commission can do one of three things: recommend that the City Council approve the proposal, reject it or forward it to the City Council with no recommendation. Developers Hal Crafton and Rush Harding of Conway-based Rush-Hal Development and Jim Lindsey of Fayetteville paid $3.65 million for the approximately 103 acres north of Irby Drive. The developers want to replace an 18-hole golf course with 552 apartments, 17 single-family homes, a nine-hole golf course.
Metro on 02/17/2015