Management agreement with Baxter Health to provide longevity and sustainability to Fulton County Hospital By Tammy Curtis, Managing Editor "What you all have to understand is we are borrowing money to make payroll. A half a million dollars just to make it a month and that will still have to be paid back. We owe physicians, we owe therapists and services. We have unpaid debt. That is where we stand. We don’t…
Tammy Curtis, Managing Editor It served as an early home and burial area for Osage Indians and later a community refrigerator, but the iconic one of a kind rock structure above Cave City’s namesake cave has evolved over the years and today is on the National Historic Registry, but remains privately owned. Last week for the first time in nearly 20 years, the owners, Dan and Irma Carrington, of what most simply…
Tammy Curtis, Managing Editor Photo/Salem Chamber of Commerce World War II veteran and Battle of the Bulge Survivor, Bill Strauss at the May, 2023 Fulton County Homecoming festivities where he was awarded the oldest attendee at 103 years old. Mr. Strauss passed away July 21 and left behind a legacy in Fulton County among friends, students and memers of the VFW. Fulton County, the City of Salem and Salem VFW Post 9777…
For the second year in a row the Spring River Chronicle, the only Sharp County owned local newspaper, placed second in General Excellence and brought home 24 Arkansas Press Awards from the Arkansas Press Association's Better Editorial Contest in downtown Little Rock at the DoubleTree by Hilton on July 20-22. Last year, the newspaper moved up a classification, from to "Medium Weeklies," based on increased subscriptions, competing with papers three to four…
By: Tammy Curtis, Managing Editor They couldn’t have picked a better weekend to make their 2023 debut. With sweltering100 plus degree temperatures, the craving for an ice cold slice of Cave City Watermelon was at its all time high. In they came, but in small quantities on June 30 from Johnson Brothers and then a larger load on July 1 from Brian Carter Farms followed by three huge loads from Johnson Brothers…
