Applications for the 2022 Arkansas alligator season are available at www.agfc.com from 8 a.m., June 15 through midnight, June 30. Anyone interested in pursuing alligators on public land in Arkansas must apply for one of the six hunting locations within two of Arkansas’s three open Alligator Management Zones.
The Highland High School Rebel Athletic Hall of Fame will recognize the following recently selected inductees during halftime at the first home football game Friday, Sept. 2: Stephanie Harris Dunn, Coach Cindi Hansen, Terry Jamieson, and Richard Stowers.
After years of depressed commodity prices, this could be the year for Arkansas grain growers to cash in — if just a few things go their way. The price of corn hit a nine-year high in April, as growers in South America experienced a low yields and grain exports from Russia and Ukraine have been significantly reduced by war and global sanctions.
Week of June 13 and June 17, 2022 Star of the Week 1 Game Score Plus Handicap Paul Prusak 188 June 20 Game Winners Pit 1 Weeks and Clementi 179 Pit 2 Prusak and Lewis 199 June 24 Game Winners Pit 1 Bass and Watts 183 Pit 2 Hollis and Gruger 182 Pit 3 Howe and Awsborn 171 .
Did you know the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (AGFC) has 11 courtesy docks on Bull Shoals Lake? District 2 has historically relied on volunteers to keep the courtesy docks at a usable level for the public due to the large fluctuations in water levels.
The Arkansas Youth Shooting Sports Program (AYSSP), sponsored by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, recently held state level trapshooting competitions in Jacksonville. The Highland Trapshooting junior team certainly has made their presence known through the AYSSP competitions in 2022. After making a big impression through regional individual competitions, the resulting final team of five moved on to state competition in Jacksonville. They surprised everyone by going all the way and winning the first state team championship for the Highland Trapshooters.
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Director Austin Booth applauded the passage of the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act on Tuesday by the U.S. House of Representatives. Booth compared HR 2773 as the modern-day equivalent of the Pittman-Robertson and Dingell-Johnson Acts. These two pieces of legislation have funded the conservation efforts that fueled the greatest comeback story for wildlife management in the history of the world, Booth said.
Week of June 13 and June 17 Star of the Week 1 Game Score Plus Handicap John Watts 196 June 13 Game Winners Pit 1 Watts and Howe 194 Pit 2 Hollis and Bass 182 Pit 3 Lewis and Lofquist 191 June 17 Game Winners Pit 1 Clementi and Watts 177 Pit 2 Prusak and Howe 187 .
The Arkansas Youth Shooting Sports Program (AYSSP), sponsored by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, recently held state level trapshooting competitions in Jacksonville. The Highland Trapshooting junior team certainly has made their presence known through the AYSSP competitions in 2022. After making a big impression through regional individual competitions, the resulting final team of five moved on to state competition in Jacksonville. They surprised everyone by going all the way and winning the first state team championship for the Highland Trapshooters.
The ninth annual Melon Dash 5k will be held Saturday, July 30 at 7 a.m. from the Cave City Park during Cave City’s Watermelon Festival. The race is hosted by the Cave City High School Cross Country and Track and Field Programs as its annual fundraiser. All proceeds go to help the kids of both programs.