The legislature’s list of accomplishments in 2022 is lengthy and significant. During a special session in the summer, legislators reduced income taxes for about 1.6 million Arkansas taxpayers by moving up the effective date of the tax cuts adopted last year.
As I write this, we are still a few days out from Christmas, but I am told people like reading this column, so I am doing another one for the post-Christmas/Yule festivities and get to talk about 2023.
12-09-1957 – 12-20-2022 JEFFREY LYNN ELLEDGE Jeffrey Lynn Elledge, 65, of Viola, Ark., passed away Dec. 20, 2022, at Fulton County Hospital.
05-23-1940 – 12-21-2022 Glenda Irene Fite, 82, West Plains, Mo., formerly of Thayer, Mo., passed away at 12:17 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022, at Ozarks Medical Center.
Cybercrime is booming. In 2021, the FBI reported that cybercriminals scammed nearly $7 billion from Americans — a figure slightly higher than the gross domestic product (GDP) of Switzerland for that year, according to research organization World Economics.
In the Dec. 21 issue of The Villager Journal, the article titled “Batesville White River Wonderland Trip with St. Bernard’s Senior Life Center,” written by Tricia Jones, had some content inadvertently overlooked. We apologize for the unintentional oversight of the following information.
BATESVILLE, AR – Lyon College recently announced that 124 students made the fall 2022 Dean’s List. Students must earn a 3.75 or higher grade-point average and take a minimum of 12 credit hours during the semester to appear on the list.