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Have-A-Heart Pet Shelter This week we are featuring Dino, a male Poodle mix (also known as Doodles). Dino is a medium-sized dog around 37 pounds, young (probably less than a year) and he has the cutest whiskery face.

Crooked Creek Conservation explains the importance of wildflowers and why native wildflowers are so important. .

David Ezell Most of our wildflower meadows have been lost since 1950, mainly due to changes in farming practice. With a little bit of space, time and patience you can create a wildflower meadow in your own garden.

Today, in partnership with Baxter Health, the first students at Cotter High School received their White Coats! The White Coat Program is an intensive internship program. Tobias Pugsley, VP of Marketing and Communications encouraged these students to “Be curious and get out of your comfort zone” as they experience different careers through Baxter Health.

This past weekend, a young lady reporting on deer season changes for Springfield television station KYTV, channel 3, made the statement that the deer killing “Chronic Wasting Disease” does not affect people. That is an incorrect statement, which is easily debunked. It does transfer from deer, elk, cattle or sheep and goats to humans and hundreds or perhaps thousands have died horrible death from what it is… an infestation of something called ‘prions’ in the brain.