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Black River Technical College Fall 2022 graduate students walked the stage Thursday night moving on to the next chapter of their lives filled with opportunity, as keynote speaker Darenda Kersey pointed out during her speech.“Life is filled with opportunities, as you all know, sometimes those opportunities come with a lot of hard work,” Kersey said. “I look forward to seeing where your hard work will take you.”Degrees were conferred by BRTC President…

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Kelsey Miller, a sophomore biology major from Highland, Ark., spent her summer interning at the Mammoth Spring National Fish Hatchery in Mammoth Spring, Arkansas.As part of the Donaghey Scholars Honors Program, she was advised to start searching for an internship early on in her college career. She started looking in the spring semester of her freshman year, and when she hadn’t found anything by May, she started worrying that she’d have to…

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Officials from Lyon College and the University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville on Tuesday signed five new articulation agreements to facilitate the seamless transfer and degree completion for UACCB students planning to pursue bachelor’s degrees at Lyon College.These agreements, sometimes called 2+2 plans, lay out a specific pathway between the two institutions so that students can easily transfer from UACCB to Lyon College and know exactly what they need to complete…

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College students have a lot to deal with, from full-time studies to part-time jobs, families and other responsibilities. But did you know an estimated 40 percent of U.S. college students experience food insecurity, meaning the lack of reliable access to sufficient quantities of affordable, nutritious food?Fortunately, Lyon College students have access to the Serve Our Students (SOS) food pantry, which provides supplemental food to those in need at Lyon College.A service of…

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By: Tammy Curtis, Managing Editor The Highland School Board voted at a Dec. 1 special called meeting to hold a special election on Feb. 14 . The District plans to again attempt to get an 8.9 mill increase passed by the voters to build a new high school and performing arts center. The millage failed during the Nov. 8 General Election by a 1357 to 2290 margin.Highland Superintendent Jeremy Lewis “Obviously we…

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