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By Tammy Curtis, Managing Editor The Cherokee Village Fire Department has been forced, through no fault of their own, to undergo several hundred thousand dollars in budge cuts after the loss of Suburban Improvement District (SID) funding last year. Due to the SID lawsuit, the first cut was of personnel. As the highest percentage of any budget is always labor cost, Cherokee Village  had to reduce their staff by six positions. Previously,…

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Photo SubmittedKarmyn Gray The Florence Nightingale Scholarship has been awarded to Karmyn Gray of Walnut Ridge for the Spring 2022 semester. Gray is a 2017 graduate of Sloan-Hendrix High School and is the daughter of Chad and Jennifer Gray of Cherokee Village and Frank and Brandy Binkley of Walnut Ridge. She is currently seeking a nursing degree from BRTC. The Florence Nightingale Scholarship is provided by the BRTC Nursing Faculty and Staff…

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George Jared Black River Technical College will begin hosting the First Horizon Bank Lecture series on April 12, 2022. True crime author and award-winning investigative journalist, George Jared, will be the first guest lecturer in the series. Jared will speak in the RCDC auditorium at 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.. The series is free and open to the public.  Jared has written two, true-crime books, Witches in West Memphis: The West Memphis…

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Governor Hutchinson Signs Bills To Grant Stipends, Raise Salaries for Law Enforcement, Corrections Raise for State Police moves state to second  in region for starting Law enforcement leaders and legislators gathered in the second-floor rotunda at the state capitol Wed. March 8, as Governor Asa Hutchinson signed a bill that grants one-time stipends of up to $5,000 to police and probation and parole officers, and a second bill that increases the salary…

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Photo SubmittedRin Tin Tin, center and his sister, Nanette, soon after they were rescued from a bombed out kennel in France. His grandson, Rin III, helped train about 5,000 dogs for wartime service in WWII. March 13 is recognized as National K9 Veterans Day, the official birthday of the US Army K9 Corps, which was formed in 1942. Joseph White, a retired military working dog trainer, originated the idea.  Many things changed…

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