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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.

LOWELL- Democratic candidate for Arkansas Lieutenant Governor, foster care advocate, and author Kelly Krout, raised $34,468.41 in the final quarter of 2021. With this successful quarter, the Kelly for Arkansas team is growing and will expand campaign operations to directly reach out to more voters.

Carla Purdome is officially announcing her candidacy for the position of Marion County Collector. Carla is a transfer to Marion County.

Mountain Home- Baxter Regional Medical Center welcomes Courtney Cavender, APRN, to our medical staff and Baxter Regional Health System Hometown Clinic at Mountain View. Courtney is a board-certified nurse practitioner with eight years of nursing experience and has joined the practice of Eric Spann, MD, and Candi Caldwell, APRN.

Skunks get a bad reputation, but this amazing animal has some of the most interesting chemistry and behavior of any local animal. Here are a few facts about skunks to help us better understand this misunderstood outcast.

Fayetteville, Ark. — Bayley Halbert, APRN, is now providing care for patients in the Washington Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Halbert earned a Master of Science in Nursing from the University of South Alabama and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Arkansas. She has more than four years’ experience as neonatal nurse practitioner and five years as a NICU nurse. Halbert most recently worked as nurse manager of the Washington Regional NICU.