Lifestyle

The Holidays are coming!

Have I got a special for you!! This year we want to do the holidays a little different for all our special events. Several of you buy ads to support our children and, since I have become the new salesperson of The Mountaineer Echo, I want to give you all a special deal. So come on aboard The Mountaineer Echo Holiday Express and get your ads in now to support our children for the Holidays. Let’s start a new tradition to make this the best little paper around!!
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Cooking with Mumzy!

Hello everyone, I hope this week finds you all in good health and happy spirits. We went to ColorRama this past weekend and had a great time. It was a pleasure meeting so many new people, and I appreciate all the advice for the paper, and I hope to help make this happen.
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2022 Cody & Misty Burrow

Marion County Farm Family County winners for the 75th annual Arkansas Farm Family of the Year Program have been selected. The County winners will be visited by a set of judges to determine eight district winners.
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COMMUNITY EVENTS

The Pine Mountain Volunteer Fire Department will hold its annual Members Meeting at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, October 19, 2022, at the Pine Mountain VFD Training and Events Center, 10 MC 8004, Yellville.
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“The Life and Times of the Pool Hall Kid” Part 1

Ol’ Bill and Ol’ Jim, both said it was the best outdoor story they had ever read. I was proud of it, the account of a young English Setter that had run off with a red wolf and had a litter of half-wolf puppies. I had written it right there at the pool hall one evening after school, in between racking balls and collecting money for my dad at the age of twelveand- a-half. Mrs. Murrell, one of my 8th grade teachers, who actually disliked me less than most of ‘em had given her English class the assignment of writing a story. She was going to read the best one out loud, and I was hoping it would be mine.
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