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Arkansas National Guard First Black Colonel at President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home

Women’s History Month: Arkansas National Guard’s First Black Colonel Erica Ingram President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site at 117 South Hervey Street Hope, Arkansas 71801. National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site News Release Immediate Michael Simpson. …

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Nashville Man Found Not Guilty in Jury Trial

A jury found a Nashville man not guilty of drug charges during a trial held this week in Howard County. Fifty two year old Lee Holden had been arrested in March of 2017 for Possession of a Controlled Substance, a class C felony. During a traffic stop, authorities had found …

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Scrapper Lunch Express Seeking Feeding Sites

The Scrapper Lunch Express is getting ready for the 2019 summer season. They are looking for community members who are interested in hosting a feeding site. All you have to do is provide a eating area and an adult for supervising the site and counting the meals served Monday -Friday. …

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Murfreesboro Chamber of Commerce Banquet

Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson spoke at Thursday’s annual Murfreesboro Chamber of Commerce banquet. President Will Martin opened the event and recognized the chamber officers and immediate past president Ricky Branch. Awards included Volunteer of the Year- CADC volunteers Marlene Steen, Sally and Jim McKinnon, John Cothren and Ronnie McKinnon. The …

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Boozman Questions Ag Secretary on Rural Broadband Implementation

WASHINGTON— Members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry received an update from U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue on the implementation of the 2018 Farm Bill. U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), a strong supporter of the bill, urged its expeditious implementation and questioned the secretary …

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Tyson Foods Makes Large Donation to Harvest Regional Food Bank

Harvest Regional Food Bank, Texarkana, received a grant from Tyson Foods, Inc, on Thursday for $50,000 to support Harvest’s Mobile Pantry program in Howard, Pike and Hempstead counties in Southwest Arkansas. Several of the nine Arkansas counties served by Harvest Regional Food Bank lack enough pantries or agencies to distribute …

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Severe Weather Awareness Week

The National Weather Service in Little Rock has been releasing information this week as part of the Severe Weather Awareness Week observance. One of the topics covered recently is lightning. Lightning is a hazard in all thunderstorms, whether they are severe or not. Most lightning fatalities occur in the summer …

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Arkansas Welcome Center to Hold Tourism Coffee

The Arkansas Welcome Center, 10000 I-30 East Texarkana, Arkansas would like to invite everyone to join them for a coffee reception for area community leaders on March 15 to share ideas on Tourism in Southwest Arkansas. You will have the opportunity to meet with and discuss tourism with representatives from …

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Garland County Imagination Library Expanding to Pike County

The Garland County Imagination Library is proud to announce that they will be expanding to include Pike County. This opportunity allows children from ages birth to five to receive a monthly book delivered by mail to their home. They are asking for the community to donate $25 which will support …

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Residents Raise Ideas During Create Bridges Civic Forum

Several community leaders attended the Create Bridges Civic Forum, held in Nashville on Tuesday. Jean Ince of the Howard County Extension Service has helped to form a committee that is working to identify strategies that could be used to strengthen local businesses and tourism. Create Bridges is a three county …

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