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PHOTOS/TAMMY CURTISHighland teacher and coach Blake Medlock served as grand marshal for the Highland Homecoming Parade. Blake is picture with his wife Mary, throwing candy for onlookers at the three campuses. By: Tammy Curtis, Managing Editor Highland Student Council has made history again this year with a campus wide community involvement project for homecoming. Much like the first students to attend Highland when Hardy and Ash Flat Consolidated in 1964, this year…

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Students on the Chancellor’s and Dean’s Lists for summer 2022 at Arkansas State University have been announced. The lists recognize undergraduate students who achieved the highest grade-point averages while enrolled in a minimum of 12 credit hours of study.The Chancellor’s List (designated as CL) includes students who earned a perfect GPA of 4.0. The Dean’s List (designated as DL) includes students with a GPA of 3.6 to 3.99. The lists include students…

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BRTC will be hosting a flu and COVID vaccination clinic on Wednesday, Oct. 5 from 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m..This FREE event will be held in the Randolph County Development Center (RCDC) and is open to the public. No registration is necessary. Those with insurance are asked to bring their insurance cards.For more information about BRTC’s allied health programs, visit https://blackrivertech.org/academics/allied-health

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Photo SubmittedPictured, from left, are Jagger Wigginton, Zach Fairchild, Fernanda Morales, Nick Wofford, Trinity Hallmark, Garrett Miles, Kinzie Williams, Kadence O’Neal, and Ali Lewis. “Dwayne Johnson: A Rock Exhibit” is the latest exhibit in the BRTC student-led Mini-Museum’s Cabinet of Curiosities on the Paragould campus.Two of Dr. Dianna Fraley’s classes, U.S. History since 1876 and World Civilization since 1660, participated in creating and curating the exhibit. The students researched a variety of…

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By Colton StraderThis is the first in a series of Sesquicentennial Moments that will delve into the history of Lyon College during its 150th anniversary celebration, which begins in October 2022. Lyon College will be focusing on the people, places and things that made Lyon College what it is today.During the turn of the 20th century, university and college literary societies started to gradually lose their position of prominence in the extracurricular…

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