Opinion

State Capitol Week in Review

LITTLE ROCK – The state Education Department has written new rules for troubled schools to enter “transformation contracts” with outside entities, such as charter school operators. The Department will accept public comments until May 15 on the eight pages of proposed rules.
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Letters to the Editors

I read with great amusement the recent letter to the editor from Phil Freise. Phil is upset with all the graft, collusion, criminality, theft, conspiracies and downright bad manners he imputes to certain city officials in Bull Shoals.
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Letters to the Editor

This is in response to the letter written by Bull Shoals City Councilman Dino Gianini that was published in the March 21, edition of the Mountain Echo. Anybody who knows Councilman Giannini certainly recognizes that he did not author the letter as he is not that literate.
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Peter Rabbit Party

This month we got together to celebrate Easter with “A Tale of Peter Rabbit” Party! The room was decorated as Mr. McGregor’s garden, and he would be mad with all the rabbits that showed up! We had a book reading, trivia questions, played group games like “pass the bunny tail”, “jellybean race”, and more.
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Public Announcement:

The special meeting is scheduled to be held Thursday, March 28, 2024, at 6 p.m., in the Yellville Annex Courthouse. The purpose of this convention is to elect delegates from our County Committee to the Special District Convention where Delegates and Alternates to the National Convention will be elected.
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Letters to the Editors

Recently Bull Shoals City Councilman Dale Forbus made a post on the local Facebook page “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”. There is a lot of bad and ugly there, but it’s hard to find anything good.
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Letters to the Editors

The City Council is supposed to be the voice of the people. As long as, the citizens’ requests are reasonable and within the costs of the city budget, those reasonable requests must be adhered to.
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