January 2022

Amazon donates to YS School

Yellville Amazon Outpost donated 5 Amazon Fire Devices to Yellville-Summit Public School. The school is excited to partner with Amazon in our local community. Pictured is Max Jones, Assistant Manager of the Amazon, Yellville Outpost, and Wes Henderson, Superintendent of Yellville-Summit Public Schools.
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Born to Learn

“I didn’t know he had it in him.” How many times have you heard this statement after someone earned an achievement? When a young Bruce Springsteen attended school as a boy in Freehold, New Jersey, he felt he didn’t fit inside the box. He said in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning a couple years ago, “I was probably one of the smartest kids in my class at the time.
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Restoring Native Habitat

Restoring native habitats to at least 20% of the world’s land currently being used by humans for farming, ranching and forestry is necessary to protect biodiversity and slow species loss, according to a newly published study conducted by a team of environmental scientists. The analysis found that this can be done in ways that minimize trade-offs and could even make farms more productive by helping to control pests, enhancing crop pollination and preventing losses of nutrients and water from soil. These working landscapes can still be grazed, mowed, harvested or burned, as long as these activities sustain or restore native species diversity.
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A Special Place to Remember a Better Time

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.
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Poetry of the Ozarks

Poetry of Our Past was presented recently by local author Marie Wagner at the Boone County Library in Harrison. During the height of the pandemic, poets from around the state and around the country were invited to submit poems that highlighted the history and heritage of the people and nature of the Ozarks. In addition to a full color, illustrated book, several poets submitted video readings of their work. This project included a wide range of styles from the short Haiku poems to longer narrative poems as well as some hip-hop and a folk song.
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