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Photo/Tammy CurtisCave City Elementary Principal Lori Laman and Resource Officer Justin Wilson unload one of the  bus loads of balloons on Valentine’s Day. A local retailer, that asked their name not be used due to corporate regulations, began a competition selling balloons weeks earlier. This would ensure each student at all three campuses of Cave City Schools, the Cave City Nursing Home and daycares received a balloon for Valentine’s Day. Buses delivered…

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Saddle store gets a new life  By Tammy Curtis, Managing Editor As Oscar Wilde so famously said, “Memory is a diary that we all carry about with us.” But in reality, our recollections of yesteryear are often much clearer than the reality the rough edges of time have hewed away at in our memories As a child, fond memories of small things like our visits with family, to stores, and vacations often…

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Kingston pleads guilty in 20 year old Fulton County murder case By Tammy Curtis, Managing Editor Less than a month after being found fit to proceed to trial, the fate of 66-year-old Dennis Kingston of Salem was sealed just short of a year after his Feb. 23, 2024 arrest for Murder in the First Degree in a 20-year-old cold case. Kingston accepted a negotiated guilty plea agreement in place of a jury…

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Ernest Harold Lance, 87, of Saffell, Ark. passed away Feb. 5, 2025 in Saffell. Cheryl Pettijohn, 74, of Highland, Ark. passed away on Feb. 8, 2025. Diane Louise Schuldheisz, 79, of rural Williford, Ark. passed away on Feb. 8, 2025 at White River Health in Batesville, Ark. Clell R. Wilson, 84, of Cave City, Ark. passed away Feb. 13, 2025 in Cave City, Ark. David Charles Dawson, 67, of Viola, Ark., passed…

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Submitted by Mary Kocz, Program Director The Spring River Gem and Mineral Club in Cherokee Village will meet 10 a.m. Thunderbird Center ,  62 N. Lakeshore Rd,  on the first Friday of  each month, beginning in March. To learn more about this beautiful state we live in, we are continuing a mini-series of Only in Arkansas programs which are devoted solely to  Arkansas. March 7:  Only in Arkansas: “The Archeology and History…

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