By: Tammy Curtis, Managing Editor 2022 was definitely a trying year for many, most will agree 2023 has to be better. Here is a look at some of the top news stories of the year brought to you by the Spring River Chronicle. January Just like the cowboys who always ride into the sunset, the cowboy in Fulton County Sheriff Albert Roork chose to take that proverbial sunset ride a year early…
R.L. Lemon, Intern at SRC I would like to share a bit of trivia. For my internship here at the Spring River Chronicle, I could not help but notice the black and white photos of newsboys on the walls. One was missing a leg, and another held a paper with a huge headline about the tragedy of Titanic. They were compelling because history is one of those things that people my age…
Despite pandemic, Sharp County’s only locally owned newspaper, the Spring River Chronicle has increased subscriptions for the last three years, again proving the importance of targeted , researched local news to the Spring River area. As a result, the Chronicle was moved up to the “Medium Weekly” category by the Arkansas Press Association, based on circulation.This meant the small local newspaper had to compete against much larger circulation weeklies in larger cities…
