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Arkansas Catfish Industry

The catfish industry is the largest component of aquaculture in the United States and a significant industry in Arkansas. In fact, Arkansas catfish farmers contributed $19.5 million to Arkansas’s agricultural economy in 2021. That’s up 17% from the previous year.
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WAS THERE SILVER IN THEM THAR HILLS

Anyone researching their familiar relationship to the Yocham family in Northern Arkansas, or Southwest Missouri will find plenty of good biographical information about our Yocham patriarchs, James (also known as Jake, and Jacob), and his brothers, Solomon, and Jesse. Whatever else they might have been, they were not dull, or boring.
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Rutledge Sues Biden Administration

Little Rock - Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge joined 22 attorneys general in filing a lawsuit today against the Biden Administration for withholding school lunch program funding from schools that fail to adopt the Administration’s new guidance on gender identity and sexual orientation.
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MC Implements Orion Damage Assessment

On April 12, 2022, Marion County Quorum Court voted to approve the purchase of the Orion Damage Assessment program for the Marion County Office of Emergency Management, Ordinance 2022-20. The Orion system utilizes information that is assessed during or after a storm to calculate and pre-fill FEMA required forms for reimbursement of repairs to roads/bridges, public infrastructure and calculate the amount of damage to personal property.
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Welcome to Baxter Health

Mountain Home – Baxter Regional Medical Center announced this week that it will now be known as Baxter Health as part of a new branding strategy. The new branding strategy will simplify things for patients while also migrating the organization towards a more inclusive health system for the 11 counties it serves.
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