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Recently, Miss Sidney Wire awarded the 3rd place in the 21-22 State Young American Creative Patriotic Art Contest held by the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary. Sidney Wire, age 17, received cash award for her work titled, “In God We Trust.” The 16” x 20” artwork is created with prismacolored pencil of a still life by observation. She is sponsored by the Hovel-Barnett VFW Post 1341 in Bull Shoals. Sidney is the daughter of Mr. Chris Wire and Ms. Melody Wire of Flippin and studies art at Flippin High School under the instruction of Mrs. Cheryl Blasdel. The state award was presented to Miss Wire by Mr. Charles Bailey, 20-21 President of the VFW Post 1341 Auxiliary, and Mrs. Sherry Bushre, chairmen of the VFW Post 1341 Patriotic Arts Contest.

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR) recognized the service and sacrifice of Vietnam War veteran Clyde Cook II in ‘Salute to Veterans,’ a series recognizing the military service of Arkansans.

Sheriff John Montgomery is seeking his ninth term as Baxter County Sheriff. With 30+ years of law enforcement experience, he and his seasoned management team have transformed the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office into a premier law enforcement organization of which the Baxter County citizens can be proud.

What I would like to leave behind me when I am gone and forgotten, originated in a dream from 30 years ago. That is when I began to think about a special museum somewhere between Cabool, Houston and Licking along highway 17 concerning the old time Ozarks and old days Ozarkians, and my beloved Big Piney River, where I spent so much of my boyhood exploring the length of it. In Arkansas, I worked as the first Naturalist for the State Park system right out of college in 1971, I really got into constructing interpretive centers for four or five of the largest state parks. Then I continued it when I went to work later as a naturalist for the National Park Service on the Buffalo River.

Bull Shoals Police Chief Jim Kuchenbecker has announced his retirement, bringing an almost 38-year career in law enforcement to a close. He has been Chief in Bull Shoals for seven years.

From the entertainment industry to working on organs and calliopes, Bill Klinger has kept a busy life. He officially retired in the fall of 2005, before that he spent his adult career working in the entertainment industry in the mechanical and physical special effects, such as rain, snow, wind, fire, explosions, any movement caused other than what would normally come from an actor. The movies which first gave him notoriety were Back to the Future and Return of the Jedi.