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Y-S applies for funding

Yellville-Summit School district intends to apply for funding to continue the 21st CCLC program. The Nita M. Lowey Arkansas 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) program supports the creation of community learning centers that provide academic enrichment during non-school hours for children, particularly students who attend high-poverty schools.
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Women Business Owners are Optimistic

StatePoint Media StatePoint - Even as they ride out inflationary pressures, supply chain disruptions and economic uncertainty, women owners and executives of small and mid-size majority-women-owned businesses have an optimistic outlook about the near-term future of their businesses, according to a recent survey. The PNC Bank survey found that women business owner (WBO) expectations for their own companies remain strong, with 41 percent feeling highly optimistic -- up from 29 percent in the fall of 2020 but down from 67 percent in the fall of 2021 -- while the share of those feeling pessimistic has held constant at just 1 percent.
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Black Death and Bad News

They are coming, and believe me, nothing seems to slow them down. They are non-native birds known as black vultures… an evil plague on the Ozarks. Black Vultures are compact birds with broad wings short tails and powerful wing beats, with white patches beneath the wings and coal black heads.
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Cotter School Board Honored

Cotter School Board members were honored with a Certificate of Appreciation and thank you cards from the Kindergarten and First Grade classes at its regular meeting Thursday, January 19. Cotter School District Board of Education members are elected to shoulder important district decisions to ensure students’ success.
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I’ve Got a Secret

Do you remember the old game show “I’ve Got A Secret?” Someone would come on and the celebrity panelists would try to guess what that person’s big secret was. Well, I’m going to tell you a secret and you wouldn’t guess it in a million years so don’t even try. This is one that not another living soul knows. In fact, I’m pretty sure my mom was the only other person who ever knew. I didn’t keep it a secret intentionally. In fact, as most of you know, I’m pretty much an open book. No, I kept this secret in the safest place possible. Forgotten in my memory! Until last week, that is. And I still can’t remember what triggered it for me, but here it is. When I was a little girl, I wanted to be Jean Marshall when I grew up. At the time, many little girls wanted to be movie stars or teachers or nurses or beauticians or any number of other dreams. Me? I wanted to be Jean Marshall, at least for a period of my childhood. Unless you lived in Flippin in the 1950s, 60s, and/or 70s, you may not know who Jean was. Jean was City Recorder for Flippin for several years back then. She and her husband, Karl, had a small jewelry/watch repair shop on the south side of Main Street, I’m thinking in the space that is now Frederic’s Salon. Back then, the Recorder didn’t work at City Hall, so Jean conducted city business out of their shop. Mostly, at least that I was aware of, Jean was who you went to see to pay your water bill. There may have been (and likely were) other duties involved, but the water bills were what I recall. And one very distinct memory I have is that she kept the payment stubs, cash, checks, etc. in a cigar box! For some reason, I was enamored with that cardboard cigar box. I don’t know if it was because of the contents or just because I thought it was a cool box with a lid that flipped up and everything! Hey, I’ve always been pretty easily entertained. Jean was also something of a local historian and, if you read the History of Marion County
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ARCHAEOLOGY

The Three Rivers Chapter of the Arkansas Archaeological Society (AAS) will meet at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 28, at the Don W. Reynolds Library in Mountain Home. Dr. Julie Morrows talk will be about the Greenbrier site, and her presentation from the Southeastern Archaeological Conference. She has stated that the site is just about the best late Mississippian site I've ever seen. She will also bring artifacts. Our meetings are free and open to the public. Call Mark Shockley at 404-6907 for information.
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