The 2024 Big Creek Golf & Country Club Cup Team successfully defended the Ozarks Cup for a fifth straight victory over Harrison Country Club last weekend thanks to a powerful comeback which saw Big Creek win the last five matches on the course to go from being down 16.5 to 11.5 to scratch out a tie at 16.5 to 16.5. The Cup remains with the defending champions in the event of tie.
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After World War I, claims for disability from discharged soldiers poured into the offices of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, the federal agency responsible for evaluating them. By mid-1921, the bureau had awarded some amount of compensation to 337,000 Veterans. But another 258,000 had been denied benefits.
The North Central Arkansas Military Service Sisters will be holding its April luncheon on Friday, May 31, 2024, at 12 Noon. The location will be Bamboo Garden, 332 E.
I once shook Harry Truman’s hand, and I have to admit that I was impressed with him, even though I was only about 6 at the time. He was there dedicating a new hospital and he bent over and told me my pants were unzipped! Now there was a man who cared enough to do something about it, when he saw a problem.
Melissa Penn, Director of Marion County Office of Emergency Management, said Monday, May 27, the Red Cross emergency center at the Marion County Fairgrounds has now been closed. The fairgrounds location will be open as a rest center during the day from 8 a.m.
Leo Woodrow Walton, 101, of Harrison, Arkansas peacefully passed away at his home surrounded by family on May 20, 2024. He was born on July 27, 1922, in Walters, Oklahoma, the son of Floyd and Myrtle (Gibson) Walton.
Irene Wanda Weis of Gassville, Arkansas, passed away May 18, 2024, in Mountain Home, Arkansas at the age of 85. She was born September 8, 1938, in Kleszczewo, Poland, the daughter of Erich and Adelgunde Schoen Wenzel.
Sherry Loiselle of Bastrop, Texas formerly of Yellville Sherry Stormye Atkinson Loiselle went to be with her Lord and Savior on Saturday, April 13, 2024, while visiting with family in Washington State. She was 84.
Cotter Public School Board of Education met for a special meeting May 23, 2024, at 4:30 p.m. to discuss the roof repair for the High School Gymnasium. Board members attended the meeting to only discuss the repair of the Gym roof, Allen Franks, Luke Walker, Russel Duggins, and Cameron Ross and Jimmy Morgan. School Administrators and other guests were also in attendance.
