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The Awesome Little Library

Have you visited the Marion County Library lately? We are Tiny but Mighty! We have so many in-house and virtual programs to keep the littles, tweens, teens, and adults entertained. We host Bite into Books once a month in the library.
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The glass-eyed battler of early spring

I never caught a walleye when I was young because the Big Piney, where I grew up, didn’t have any. That seems strange to me now because so many Ozark streams have plenty of those glass-eyed fish also known in parts of the Ozarks as Jack Salmon. Just out of college I went to Arkansas to become an outdoor writer for the Arkansas Democrat newspaper, and in there was a lot of talk about the big walleye tournament that began each February and went on through much of April at Greer’s Ferry Lake. Except it wasn’t so much the lake they were fishing, it was tributaries to it, like the Little Red River.
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Fire

Have you thought about the benefits of fire, or do you think fire is always a bad thing that destroys property? Prescribed fire, also known as a controlled burn, refers to the controlled application of fire by a team of fire experts under specified weather conditions that help restore health to fire-adapted environments. Prescribed Fire is a very beneficial tool that we can use to our advantage as property owners.
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Cooking with Mumzy!

Happy Valentine’s Day to all of you. I hope this week finds you all in good health and happy spirits. I am going to do a whole day of quick and easy recipes fo you this week, so if you would like you can cook every meal today and it will not be much work at all.
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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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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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