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CROOKED CREEK

Have you ever thought about how much conservation you can do in your backyard? Farmers and ranchers, and many homeowners, are making progress in natural resource protection. You can join their conservation tradition right in your own backyard.
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VA Inspector General’s Report on Community Care Coordination Delay

WASHINGTON – Arkansas U.S. Senators John Boozman and Tom Cotton and Congressman Steve Womack (AR-3) commented on the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General’s report on community care coordination delays for a veteran at the Fayetteville VA Medical Center: “In this instance, the Fayetteville VA Medical Center failed to live up to its mission. Negligence in ensuring a veteran receives the quality and timely care they deserve is unacceptable. I will be working with my colleagues to ensure those responsible will be held accountable and this never happens again, in Arkansas or elsewhere,” said Boozman, a member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee.
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Airport Meeting

The Marion County Airport Board would like to announce there will be no meeting for the month of September. Thank you from the MC Airport Board.
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CONSERVATION CORNER

FAYETTEVILLE - The little things living in a calf’s nose could be key to combating bovine respiratory disease, the single most costly illness affecting the beef industry. Jiangchao Zhao, associate professor of animal science at the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, uses next-generation sequencing to identify the microorganisms populating the bovine nasal cavities, known as the respiratory microbiome.
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