July 2022

The Flippin City Council met on Tuesday, July 19, at 6 p.m. in the courtroom at the Flippin City Hall.

Mountain Home – Baxter County Library’s Summer Reading Challenges for children, tweens, teens, and adults will be wrapping up soon. Be sure to update your reading log with the Beanstack app by August 6 to be eligible for prizes.

The Edith Nourse Rogers Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM) Scholarship allows some eligible Veterans and dependents in high-demand fields to extend their Post-9/11 GI Bill or Fry Scholarship benefits. Read below to find out if you are eligible for up to 9 months (or $30,000) of added benefits and how to apply.

Mountain Home – Baxter Regional Health System has announced that effective July 11, 2022, Baxter Regional Hometown Clinic at Mammoth Spring joined Baxter Regional Family Health Care. That clinic is located at 350 Main Street #4 in Mammoth Spring, and Leslie Batterton, APRN, has moved her practice to this location and joined Tamra Ward, APRN.

Fayetteville – Effective July 25, Chap Sampson, MD, and Jessica Short, MD, of the Washington Regional Rheumatology Clinic will begin seeing the patients in the new location across from the Washington Regional Medical Center campus in Fayetteville. The new clinic address is 3276 N. Northhills Blvd.

Little Rock — Experts with the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture will host a free webinar July 21 to offer guidance to Arkansas cattle producers struggling with drought. “Our cattle producers statewide are struggling right now to survive this drought, and many of them face some tough decisions,” Vic Ford, extension’s associate president for agriculture and natural resources, said.