Area school districts will be looking to adjust or stay the course with its cell phone policies for students starting with the 2025-26 school year after Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed Act 122, The Bell To Bell, No Cell Act, on Feb. 21 with bipartisan support.
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Elaine BrownReporterebrown@cherryroad.com Many flu-related deaths reported, vaccines recommended Emergency rooms, urgent care facilities and hospitals across the entire U.S. including Arkansas have been inundated with… Login to continue reading Login…
A slew of appropriations were made during the Feb. 27 Fulton County Quorum Court meeting, the meeting was postponed a week later due to the snow storm that came into the area a week prior. Among the appropriations approved was $5,000 for the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office for an audit from a private company to conduct the audit regarding the Act 309 volunteer program.
Country Quilters Quilt Guild will hold their monthly meeting on Wednesday, March 12, at the Miller Hickinbotham building at the fairgrounds in Salem. The meeting for skill-building will begin at 9:15 a.m. This is for any person who needs extra help on a project or is a beginner at sewing. Pam Frye will be the leader of this session. The business meeting will begin at 10 a.m. with Becky Langston presiding as president. After the meeting there will be a light luncheon served by some of our members. Following the lunch, Pam Frye will lead a program on the traditional wedding ring quilt block. She will bring patterns. Members participating should bring sewing machines, basic sewing supplies, and a few scraps of fabric. Please stay & enjoy our sewing party! Pam will also answer any questions on the sew-along. The fat quarter exchange will be any shade of green.
Are you curious who lived in what was much later called Cherokee Village....and the Spring River Area during prehistoric times? Who was here, and When? Where did they come from? Where did they go?
When a 2022 lawsuit in Ozark Acres was finalized where plaintiff Debra Lumley claimed that the Ozark Acres Suburban Improvement District—where management and maintenance of amenities such as parks, roads and lakes is funded by collections of funds from property owners—was illegally collecting a levy on the assessed benefits as the amount due for the assessed benefits was paid in full before 2022, according to court documents. The matter was settled in court in 2023 leaving the community seeking next steps.
Our Adoptables of the Week are seven of what we are calling “The Snow White Puppies.”
I am going to chalk it up to being young that I used to love the winter. Snow days with no school. Sledding, snowball fights. The Works.
Elaine BrownReporterebrown@cherryroad.com Sharp County Quorum Court met Monday, Feb. 10 at 6 p.m. at the Sharp County Courthouse in Ash Flat. Sharp County Judge Mark… Login to continue reading Login…