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The Big Piney Pool Hall Rules…

I hope to have my Big Piney Museum and Ozark Interpretive Center finished and open by this fall. One of the contents is a pool table that was made in the early 1920s, dubbed an A.E. Schmidt Victory Table. It was sent to the main street pool hall in Houston, Missouri, about 1922. My dad and grandfather bought the pool hall in 1957 when I was 10. From then until 1964, I worked there after school and at various times during the summer.
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Fulbright Honors

FAYETTEVILLE - Local students were named to the Spring 2024 Dean›s List in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas. To qualify for the Dean’s List, the following local students achieved at least a 3.75 grade-point average for the semester while completing at least 12 credit hours.
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ARA Commits $2 Million in Disaster Recovery Funds

LITTLE ROCK – The Arkansas REALTORS Association (ARA) has pledged to provide $2 million in recovery funds to those impacted by the May 26 tornadoes. Through its nonprofit, Hearts & Homes of Arkansas, the ARA will offer up to $2,000 in disaster assistance per residence for housing-related costs, such as rent and mortgage payments. Since late May, Hearts & Homes has partnered with the REALTORS Relief Foundation to distribute $1.4 million in funding.
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Weekend Weather

Friday- Sunny with a High near 94 degrees and a low near 73 degrees. Saturday- Slight chance of rain with a high of 92 degrees and a low in the lower 70s. Sunday- Chance of rain with a high around 85 degrees and a low around 70 degrees. Next week: Partly cloudy through the early part of next week with highs in 80s and
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Sanders Orders Flags Half-Staff

LITTLE ROCK – Monday, June 24, 2024, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, governor, ordered flags to fly half-staff in remembrance for the mass shooting in Fordyce where a lone gunman entered the Mad Butcher grocery store fatally shooting four customers and injuring eight more and two law enforcement officers.
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