After a slow and steady few weeks, local jails appeared to have returned to their usual high intake levels — typical for both Boyd County and Big Sandy Regional.
Boyd County Detention Center
⢠Alisha S. Litteral, 41, of Ashland, was booked Friday on two counts of trafficking in a controlled substances and two counts of possession of a controlled substance.
⢠Amanda S. Spencer, 36, of Ashland, was jailed Friday on a failure to appear.
⢠Christopher S. Brown, 26, of Ashland, was lodged Friday on a probation violation.
⢠Swayne K. Jones, 56, was booked Friday on alcohol intoxication in a public place.
⢠James L. Fitzgerald, 32, of Catlettsburg, was jailed Friday on second-degree wanton endangerment and public intoxication of a controlled substance.
⢠Jessica D. Mays, 43, of Ashland, was booked Friday on a bench warrant for court.
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Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station releases new Primocane-Fruiting Blackberry
Prime-Ark® Horizon, a new primocane-fruiting blackberry from the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, offers growers a new option with an extended fruiting season and high yield potential.
Prime-Ark® Horizon is a thorny variety and the sixth primocane-fruiting blackberry from the experiment station’s fruit breeding program. Experiment Station fruit breeders have released 21 public blackberry varieties since James N. Moore began the program in 1964.
Blackberry plants produce biennial canes that have a lifespan of two years, said John R. Clark, Distinguished Professor of horticulture and fruit breeding for the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, the research arm of the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture. Most blackberries flower and fruit on the second-year canes, known as floricanes. Harvest date for floricane blackberries on Prime-Ark® Horizon averaged about J
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NEW PEACH Whitewater is a new low-acid, white-flesh peach with the earliest harvest date of all peaches from the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station’s fruit breeding program. (Photo courtesy of Margaret Worthington)
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. Whitewater, a new peach from the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station’s fruit breeding program, features a low acid, white flesh fruit that ripens in June.
“This is a nice, early harvest addition to our white peach series,” said Margaret Worthington, fruit breeder for the Agricultural Experiment Station, the research arm of the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture. “It helps extend the harvest season for peach growers.”