100 years ago
Dec. 17, 1916
RUSSELLVILLE -- An ordinance has been passed forming an improvement district to pave Main street from Oak street west to the city limits, 14 blocks. From Oak street to River in the business district, the paving will be 100 feet wide. Through the residence section it will be either 40 feet in the center of the street or 20 feet on either side, with parking in the center. This will be the second paving project in Russellville, Jefferson street having been paved through the business section last summer.
50 years ago
Dec. 17, 1966
• Eugene Benjamin Hale Jr., 29, administrative aide to Governor Faubus, will become an assistant attorney general next month, Attorney General-elect Joe Purcell said Friday. The appointment will take effect January 10 when Purcell succeeds Bruce Bennett as the state's chief attorney. Purcell said that other members of his staff will be announced prior to January 3. Hale, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene B. Hale Sr. of Prescott, was graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1959 and from the Arkansas Law School in 1963.
25 years ago
Dec. 17, 1991
• Two Little Rock banks were robbed Monday -- one just as it opened for business, the other at closing time. Police suspect the same man robbed both banks. In the morning robbery, a Union National Bank branch at 4024 W. Markham St. was held up for the second time in a month. The police said the robber escaped with only about $7 after a dye pack exploded, and he dropped his booty.
10 years ago
Dec. 17, 2006
• Holly Grove Mayor Lula Tyler stood before her town's elementary school in the darkness Saturday morning as flames raced along the roof, buffeted by a crisp breeze. The fire spread quickly above the classrooms in the large brick building where Tyler had gone to school -- then her children, then her grandchildren. It was the site of basketball games and large funerals and the annual Fourth of July party in the town of 722. Tyler hoped the quick response of firefighters from around Monroe County could save "Elementary," as she calls it. But with the blaze tearing through, she found herself lowering her hopes and wishing the gymnasium where she'd played more than 40 years ago would survive. But by morning's light, the structure had been reduced to a still-burning skeleton.
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