August 2026

Your Medicaid Might Have New Rules Now: Here’s What to Know Before January

If you or someone in your family gets health coverage through ARHOME — Arkansas’s Medicaid expansion program — a change quietly started on July 1 that’s worth understanding now, while there’s still time to prepare. Nobody’s losing coverage yet. But the clock has started, and what you do between now and January could matter a great deal.

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GET A HOLD OF SOMETHING!

Job 23:3,8,10 KJV Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat. Behold I go forward, but he is not there: and backward, but he is not there, but I cannot perceive him. But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

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James Clary of Lead Hill

James Roy “J.R.” Clary, 63, of Lead Hill, Arkansas, passed away on July 27, 2026, at the Springs of Harrison. J.R. was born on September 15, 1962, in Harrison, Arkansas, to Billy Clary and Flora Bell (Villines) Clary.

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Shirley Birdsong of Snowball

Shirley Ann (Williams) Birdsong, aged 82, of Snowball passed away Saturday, July 25, 2026, at the Springs at Mount Vista in Harrison. She was born October 1, 1943, in Snowball, the third of ten children born to Dolford and Iwilla (Barnes) Williams.

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