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WASHINGTON - The Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee on Thursday passed legislation championed by U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR) that would bolster recruitment and retention of clinicians at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

LITTLE ROCK – Our Blood Institute is pleased to announce its new Little Rock Executive Director, Carvin Brown. Brown has been with the organization for nearly 10 years and has held multiple positions, most recently serving as the Senior Director of Inventory Management of regional operations.

The Marion County Sheriff’s Department is investigating an incident involving a student being in possession of a firearm on the Yellville-Summit High School campus. Marion County Sheriff Gregg Alexander advised deputies responded to the campus after a firearm was recovered by the School Resource Officer assigned to Yellville-Summit campus.

Do you remember what your pastures looked like last summer during the drought? Were they brown and bare or were they still maintaining some fodder for livestock to consume? What changes do you need to make to your pastures to be able to provide adequate nutrition for livestock in the case that we have another drought? These are questions we need to ask ourselves as we plan for changes or additions to our pasture management. Are some forages more drought tolerant than others? Typically, a warm season grass will have qualities that help it maintain through dry conditions.

North Arkansas Partnership for Health presents the Region 2 Meth Prevention Conference at Arkansas State University-Mountain Home Friday, February 24, from 8 a.m. – 3 p.m. at the Sheid at the ASUMH campus located at 1600 South College Street in Mountain Home.