Other Days: December 13, 2023

10 YEARS AGO DECEMBER 11, 2013 While there were some incidents of motorists sliding off icy highways, Cleveland County seems to have come through the winter storm that hit Arkansas over the past week nearly unscathed. The storm system moved into the county last Friday morning, sending temperatures plunging to near freezing by late afternoon. However, by the time the temperatures did hit the freezing mark, most of the precipitation had already fallen in the form of a cold rain or a rain/sleet mix. County Judge Gary Spears said, 'we were lucky. It was just right on the brink (temperature wise) of causing some major problems.' The biggest road problems actually occurred Sunday morning when light sleet that fell Saturday night began freezing to road surfaces, leaving most bridges and secondary highways covered in a thin layer of ice. A third round of winter weather fell briefly Monday evening in the form of a rain, sleet and snow mix. High temperatures remained in the 30s until Tuesday, with the coldest temperature reported as a low of 22 Sunday morning. James 'J.W.' Moss, 74, of the Sulphur Springs community in Jefferson County, died after suffering severe burns in a November 8 camping trailer explosion near Pansy. Moss sustained severe burns when the camper he and his wife, Shirley Moss, were in exploded from an apparent gas leak inside the trailer. The State Review Board of the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program listed the 1917 Ira E. Moore House at 106 Amis Street in Rison on the Arkansas Register of Historic Places. The Arkansas Forestry Association honored James Wilson of the 'Y' community near Rison with its 'Logger of the Year' award during the organization's annual meeting in Little Rock recently. Wilson joined the family's logging business in 1990. The Cleveland County Christmas Parade and Festival, presented by Rison Shine Downtown Development, will be held tomorrow evening in the downtown area of Rison. T...