June 2022

Butterfly Gardening in Arkansas

Butterflies are a welcome visitor to any Arkansas garden. To attract butterflies, gardeners are planting all types of blooming plants, in the hopes that butterflies will flock to their garden. While many flowering plants will entice butterflies to your garden, to increase diversity, consider adding plants that serve as food for the caterpillars. A butterfly garden can be as small as a few containers of plants, or as large as the yard you have.
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Johnson Grass

What is your opinion of Johnson Grass? Is it a good thing or a bad thing? Some people like it for hay but the dangers of it growing on our property usually outweigh the positives. We will discuss the dangers of Johnson Grass in this article and ways to eradicate it.
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Wild Gobblers… Fewer and Fewer

A comeback in populations of the wild turkey is so simple it could begin this year. First of all, we need to end the fall gun season, which allows the taking of too many hens and gobblers. It does indeed affect breeding numbers for the following spring. How could it not? That argument is ridiculous. Right now, we have the lowest number of wild turkeys in the Ozarks since the seventies.
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Gary Foster of Flippin

It is with sadness for those who that will miss him, but also the appreciation of the legacy and impact he left behind, that the family of Gary Thurman Foster of Flippin announces his passing at 68 years old. He was born July 28, 1953, in Batesville, Arkansas to Thurman Thomas Foster and Laura Leona Talburt Foster.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Mr. Ellingson, As the editor of the Mountaineer Echo, I rarely respond to letters to the editor because as a Veteran, I believe everyone is ENTITLED to express their opinions in a respectful manner.
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Good morning, Robert!

I wanted to let you know that I really like what’s happening with the Mountaineer Echo. Lots of good friendly reading and I sure like Cindy Wood-Young’s ‘Growing up in Flippin’ contribution. I wish we had a few more local contributors like her. Please, keep up the good work! I’ve been doing a lot of research for a book I’m writing about Caney Store and have leaned on past articles of the ME to ‘jog my memory’, and it’s interesting to see how much the community has changed along with reporting along with it. For instance, back in the 50’s and 60’s the paper was full of national and state news on the front page with the important local news. Of course, the format of the paper was significantly different too. All fascinating.
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