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Editors Note: At press time, the following events and meetings were known to be still scheduled. Organizers or appropriate officials are encouraged to contact Sandra Hope at shope@pbcommercial.com or use our newsroom email pbcnews@adgnewsroom.com to make additions or changes.

Editors Note: At press time, the following events and meetings were known to be still scheduled. Organizers or appropriate officials are encouraged to contact Sandra Hope at shope@pbcommercial.com or use our newsroom email pbcnews@pbcommercial.com to make additions or changes.

Editors Note: At press time, the following events and meetings were known to be still scheduled. Organizers or appropriate officials are encouraged to contact Sandra Hope at shope@pbcommercial.com or use our newsroom email pbcnews@pbcommercial.com to make additions or changes.

The Great Flood of 1927 was the most devastating and costly in U.S. history. The flood caused devastation in Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma and Tennessee. The worst destruction occurred in Arkansas. Almost twice as much farmland was flooded in Arkansas as in Mississippi and Louisiana combined.

In 2014, Pine Bluff native Juliet Jackson was named a Southeastern Conference Legend as she became a University of Arkansas Hall of Famer. From 1986 to 1990, Jackson was an integral member of the University of Arkansas two most successful sports teams.

In November 1940, construction of the Pine Bluff School of Aviation began utilizing $200,000 in municipal bond money and a $107,320 grant from President Franklin D. Roosevelts Depression-era Works Progress Administration (WPA). Earlier that year, as World War II raged in Europe, the Civil Aviation Authority adopted stricter regulations to allow airfields to accommodate larger and faster aircraft. Consequently, Pine Bluffs first airfield, Toney Field, became obsolete.

The Pine Bluff Advertising and Promotion Commission, the Delta Rhythm & Bayous Alliance, and the Pine Bluff/Jefferson County National Heritage Trails Task Force plan to revitalize downtown Pine Bluff by transforming a portion of it into the Delta Rhythm & Bayous Cultural District.

O.W. Gurley was once one of the wealthiest Black men in America and the founder of Black Wall Street in Tulsa.

On Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023, an annular eclipse will be visible along a narrow path across the United States and South America. That morning the moon will cover the suns center so that its outer edges appear as a single ring of light, known as the ring of fire.

Viralene Johnson Coleman served as a pillar of educational excellence at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff for 37 years, innovating new approaches to teaching literature and composition.