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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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AGFC sharpens conservation plan

Little Rock — Conservation plans for the future were the front-running topics at today’s meeting of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission at its Little Rock Headquarters. In his report to the Commission, Director Austin Booth spoke about the agency’s newly developed strategic plan and annual report, which were both unveiled last night at a meeting with partner agencies and stakeholders.
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The Bluff and the Pipeline

The thrill of seeing the lower Big Piney with Jim Barr and Charlie Curran made me remember days from another time. But everything about a river changes, and the changes when men are involved are never good. It is funny how I talk about the days of my boyhood when the
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