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The Arkansas Department of Agriculture has extended the deadline to apply for the Homegrown by Heroes scholarship that provides $1,000 to military veterans and active military personnel to attend the Farm School at the Center for Arkansas Farm and Food in Fayetteville. Applications are due September 30, 2022 and are available at: agriculture.arkansas.gov/arkansas-department-of-agriculture-programs/. Funding for the scholarship is generously provided by Farm Credit.The scholarships are affiliated with Homegrown By Heroes, an Arkansas…

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Editor’s Note: The following information is from the Highland School District and is an attempt to answer questions regarding the upcoming public meeting and purpose of the proposed millage increase.The Highland School district has always taken pride in ensuring students have safe, encouraging learning environments. In recent years, they made improvements including increasing safety at building entryways, elementary school renovations, and parking lot improvements to name a few. Earlier this year, the…

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Photo SubmittedMembers from the Cherokee Village American Legion Post 346 and VFW Post 4772 along with Sharp County Sherriff Mark Counts spoke Sept. 9 with all Highland High School students about the importance of Patriots’ Day and the memories they have of 9/11. Photo SubmittedThe Rebel Band played the National Anthem and Sophomore Lane Evans played taps for the Patriots’ Day ceremony at Highland High School on Sept. 9.

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Social contracts. Hand Signals. Good Things. Affirmations. Greetings and handshakes. These may be a few of the things you’ve heard students in the Highland School District talk about since the 22-23 school year has begun.Before school started, all district administration, faculty, and staff embarked on a training journey that would affect the way they approach everything within the school system this year. The district adopted a voluntary process called Capturing Kids’ Hearts.…

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Members of Lyon College’s Tau Kappa Epsilon chapter, or TKE, recently announced that they had the honor of joining TKE’s prestigious $5,000 Club and were recognized at the TKE Conclave in Houston, Texas. Lyon College’s chapter worked diligently over the past year to help raise money to donate to its main philanthropy, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, with the final amount totaling $5,405.“Our organization chose St. Jude as our primary philanthropy as…

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