Corter named Firefighter of the Year at CCFD
Awards were presented at Cave City Fire Department Christmas Awards Banquet. This year’s Firefighter of the Year, an award voted on by the other firefighters, recipient was Billy Corter. Corter (center) also was awarded the Stormin’ Norman Achievement Award. The following firefighters were given awards for their years of service: Scott Wooldridge-30 years; Billy Corter-20 years; Mitch Kazee-5 years and Michael Stanley-10 Years.”These firefighters and their families are an unbelievable asset to…
God’s love is waiting for our love
Dr. Billy Holland Dr. Billy Holland No matter what the negative naysayers declare about the absence of the love of God, do not allow these dark imaginations to be absorbed into your conscience. Let us accept the fact that after God created the heavens and the earth and everything in it, the Almighty keeps repeating, “And God saw that it was good.” He passionately loved everything He made and still does. Take…
Cotton applauds unanimous Supreme Court decision to uphold TikTok ban
Tom Cotton, US Senator Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, released the following statement on the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision to uphold the Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. “ByteDance and its Chinese Communist masters had nine months to sell TikTok before the Sunday deadline. The very fact that Communist China refuses to permit its sale reveals exactly what TikTok is: a communist spy app. The Supreme…
A tale of two counties
Mack Thompson, Editor Recently, we had a pretty good snowfall in north central Arkansas. Depending on where you were and who was doing the measuring, there was between 10 and 12 inches. Salem schools were out Friday and Highland was out until the following Friday. Are we to believe that the snow that fell in Sharp County was of a special variety that was impossible to remove? It seems that might…
Lengthly school closure begs to question road department’s performances
Tammy Curtis, Managing Editor/Publisher Old Man Winter came last Thursday night, dumping as much as 10 inches of snow in Spring River Country. State, county and city road departments jumped into gear with at least a week of notice in prepping the roads for the impending weather. Fulton County Judge Kenneth Crow reported his crews began early and worked all day on Friday and Saturday. Crow sent a report to the media…
