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UAFS Announces Child Care Center

by Rachel Rodemann Putman, Associate Director for Strategic Communications FT. SMITH - The University of Arkansas – Fort Smith announced Tuesday, September 6, 2022, a partnership with the Arkansas Department of Human Services that will bring in more than $1 million to help the campus build and staff an early childhood education center.
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MC Ballot Draw

Ballot positions have been determined for all contested races in the upcoming November general election in Marion County. Marion County Election Commissioners Gary Schnoor, Scott Carter, and Jimmy Lynch held a public meeting to conduct the randomized drawing on Monday, August 29, at 10:00 a.m. in the Marion County Courthouse Annex Courtroom.
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Tinnitus Support Group to meet

Do you have ringing or buzzing in your ears? If you have tinnitus, or have a loved one bothered by it, the Mountain Home Tinnitus Support Group will be launched in the weeks ahead. The group will meet monthly (date/time to be determined based on member feedback and room availability) at the Donald W.
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Gas Prices Decline Going into Labor Day;

BOSTON - After a seemingly never-ending spring of price-hikes at the pump, gas prices gas prices have declined every week of the summer and are expected to be the lowest since March 3 and 20% lower than on July 4, at $3.79* per gallon. According to GasBuddy, the leading fuel savings platform saving American drivers the most money on gas, prices this Labor Day weekend will continue to fall slightly from summer highs, though remain over 60¢ per gallon more expensive than last year.
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Y-S Goes 2-0

2-0 YELLVILLE - The Yellville-Summit Panthers hosted the Johnson County West-Side Rebels on Friday, September 2, in Yellville. The Rebels were 0-1 after losing to the Dover Pirates in week 0, while the Panthers defeated the Baptist Prep Eagles in Little Rock in week 0.
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ME welcomes Mason to Flippin Sept. 1

Peggy Mason has been hired by CherryRoad Media to work at the Mountaineer Echo (ME) as a Part-Time Reporter and Photographer. Mason has been working as a stringer or freelance reporter and photographer for the past 14 months and was the photographer for the award-winning front page photo that won the Mountaineer Echo the award for Best Front Page at the Arkansas Press Association awards ceremony in June.
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Conservation Corner

Walk Across Arkansas is back for its fall event September 12 – November 6. The eight-week exercise program is organized each spring and fall by the Cooperative Extension Service, part of the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, with the goal of helping Arkansans improve their health.
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LIGHTNIN’ RIDGE

BA week ago, I spent several days in South Dakota with a man by the name of Joel Vosek, and I will write more about him and the 108-mile Ft. Reynolds Lake we fished in another column.
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