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Arkansas Community Foundation and Excel by Eight have joined forces to help ensure all children in our state have a better start to reach their full potential. Our children must be fully supported starting as early as prenatal. Families are the first teachers and we must make sure that parents and their children are taken care of through their most formative years. When we fully equip families, we can instill the importance…

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Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Chairman Bobby Martin loaded the first batch of rainbow trout May 17 at the “ribbon-cutting” of the newly remodeled Jim Hinkle Spring River State Fish Hatchery at Mammoth Spring. The hatchery, Arkansas’s only state-owned cold water hatchery, supplies rainbow trout to 43 locations throughout The Natural State, including the famed White, Norfork and Spring rivers. The hatchery, which was originally built in 1974 and was donated to…

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By: Tammy Curtis, Managing Editor The original misdemeanor charge of Third Degree Battery filed against attorney and former public defender Calvin Harrell, III on May 6 has been upgraded to two felony charges. The charges resulted after he allegedly attacked his ex- girlfriend at her home in Cherokee Village. The amended charges came on May16 after a special prosecutor was assigned to the case. D. Jason Barrett took the case when Third…

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By: Tammy Curtis, Managing Editor While being raised around green houses, Leona’s Faver’s mother helped her learn about starting seeds and the art of planting and nourishing the plants to keep them healthy. “I was raised in a green-house. My mom had a greenhouse so I learned everything I know from her. I have been doing this since I was 13 years old,” she said. While Leona admits there is a lot…

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Sharp County Sheriff’s Department Chief Deputy Kevin “Bart” Simpson reviews several plaques, including on for the Medal of Valor, presented to Craig Richardson, the son of Cave City Police Officer Jeff Richardson, the only Sharp County officer killed in the line of duty. Sheriff Shane Russell and Simpson presented Richardson with the plagues in honor of his late father, who was killed in 1993 at the annual Memorial on May 10 at…

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