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Making Rainbows Hosts Chamber Coffee

The Hope-Hempstead County Chamber of Commerce community coffee was hosted this morning August 22, by Rainbow of Challenges Making Rainbows. The coffee was held at the chamber office by the Making Rainbows teachers from Hempstead […]
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Friends of NRA banquet Sept. 29

PRESCOTT – Doors of the Potlatch Building will open at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29 for the annual Piney Woods Friends of the NRA Banquet. This year’s  banquet will be a tribute and memorial to […]
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Melon weigh-off Sept. 1

WASHINGTON – On Saturday, September 1, the Old Washington Farmer’s Market and Historic Washington State Park in cooperation with the Hope-Hempstead County Chamber of Commerce will host an official watermelon weigh-off site for the Great […]
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Council approves aerator purchase

PRECOTT – Prescott’s City Council, at its August meeting Monday night, approved spending $24,810 for a new aerator for the city’s sewer pond. Perry Nelson, superintendent of the Prescott Water and Sewer Department, said the […]
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Council discusses EDO utilities

PRECOTT – What began as a simple question for information purposes turned into a 30-minute discussion at the August meeting of the Prescott City Council Monday night. Councilman Tommy Poole asked why the city is […]
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HCSO log

  Domestic Battery On Thursday August 16, at 11:36 A.M. HCSO deputies responded to a reported domestic violence call at 5954 highway 29 South. Upon investigation 27-year-old Joseph Fortenberry was arrested for Domestic Battery in […]