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NEWS BREIFS

A meeting of the Arkansas Fusion Center Executive Board has been scheduled for 2 p.m., Wednesday, January 11. The regularly scheduled business meeting will occur at Arkansas State Police Administrative Headquarters, One State Police Plaza Drive, Little Rock.
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FHS hires Stoner and Bogan

The Flippin School Board met Monday, December 19, at 6 p.m. in the Flippin School District Central Office to discuss the principal reports, hiring teachers, projects and transfers. Brent Mitchell, Curt Bryant, Stacie Goldsmith, along with Kelvin Hudson were in attendance. Roger Leonard and Brian Benedict were absent from the meeting.
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How No-Till Improves Land Values

We all want to have our property worth more don’t we? In a recent report studying Conservation Farming practices and their economic value, it was determined that No-Till farming can improve land value. While we as farmers own the land and can choose how we farm it, society also has an interest in preserving the land for future generations.
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Community Events

Mountain Home Moose Lodge #1953 invites the public to join its members in ringing in the new year this coming Saturday evening by attending its annual New Year’s Eve party. Doors will open at 5:00 p.m.
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Merry Christmas!

From my family to yours, I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I pray that as you gather with family and friends to celebrate the birth of Christ, you can reflect on the past year and look ahead to all the things to come in the new year. I am optimistic and hopeful about the future and am honored to continue to represent the First District of Arkansas.
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Christmas with Foster Children

Earlier this month, many of us gathered in the Old Supreme Court Chamber at our Capitol to celebrate Christmas with some of the children currently in our state’s foster care system. This is an annual event that distributes thousands of gifts and brings countless smiles.
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A look back at 2022

LITTLE ROCK – The legislature’s list of accomplishments in 2022 is lengthy and significant. During a special session in the summer, legislators reduced income taxes for about 1.6 million Arkansas taxpayers by moving up the effective date of the tax cuts adopted last year.
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Happy New Year!

Christmas has come and gone for another year. Up next is New Year’s, but I don’t have any memories about how we spent New Year’s when I was growing up in the Flippin of the 1960s. So, instead, I’m sharing a memory that encompassed Christmas and many days afterwards in one particular year. It was one of the biggest snowfalls of my childhood...the one that hit the Twin Lakes area in December 1966. I had just turned 10 years old.
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