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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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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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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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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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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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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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Marion County Police Beat

Current: December – December 25 2022 Dyess, Willow Delrae Booking Date: 12-23-2022 - 2:53 p.m.; Charges: FAILURE TO APPEAR, BOND REVOCATION Paxton, Reannon Booking Date: 12-20-2022 - 1:20 p.m.; Charges: FAILURE TO APPEAR, NO LIABILITY INSURANCE Gagne, Trena Jogene Booking Date: 12-19-2022 - 11:37 p.m.; Charges: NON-PAYMENT OF FINES CASH PRO, POSSESSION DRUG PARA FELONY, POSS OF COTROLLED SUB, FAILURE TO APPEAR MISDEMEANOR, FAILURE TO PAY FINES MISDEMEANOR Huckaba, Angel Booking Date: 12-19-2022 - 12:28 p.m.; Charges: FAILURE TO APPEAR Nodine, Kiley Cherie Booking Date: 12-17-2022 - 3:58 p.m.; Charges: CHARGES PENDING Qualls, Donnie J Booking Date: 12-17-2022 - 2:16 a.m.; Charges: FAILURE TO PAY FINES MISDEMEANOR Schrader, Michelle Lea Booking Date: 12-16-2022 - 10:57 p.m.; Charges: POSSESSION DRUG PARA FELONY F UCR90Z Runkle, Amanda Jo Booking Date: 12-16-2022 - 10:47 p.m.; Charges: POSSESSION DRUG PARA FELONY Simmons, Christopher Antoine Booking Date: 12-15-2022 - 9:33 p.m.; Charges: HOLD FOR DOC Day, Kevin Booking Date: 12-15-2022 - 8:17 p.m.; Charges: HOLD FOR DOC Wray, Jeremy David Booking Date: 12-15-2022 - 4:25 p.m.; Charges: HOLD FOR DOC Ward, Daeshawn Marquise Booking Date: 12-15-2022 - 3:30 p.m.; Charges: HOLD FOR DOC Hervey, Antwong L Booking Date: 12-15-2022 - 3:23 p.m.; Charges: HOLD FOR DOC Snyder, Steven Eugene Booking Date: 12-15-2022 - 12:31 p.m.; Charges: COMTEMT OF COURT Priddy, Christopher Booking Date: 12-15-2022 - 9:29 a.m.; Charges: HOLD FOR DOC Chastain, Justin R Booking Date: 12-14-2022 - 11:53 p.m.; Charges: DELIVER METH COCAINE, DISTRIBUTION TO NEARBY FACILTIES, NEED DESCRIPTION Lane, Tommy Booking Date: 12-14-2022 - 9:34 p.m.; Charges: FAILURE TO APPEAR MISDEMEANOR Stice, Niellein Lia Booking Date: 12-14-2022 - 1:54 p.m.; Charges: BOND SURRENDER, BOND SURRENDER Delong, Vincent Paul Booking Date: 12-14-2022 - 11:53 a.m.; Charges: THEFT OF PROPERTY FORGERY Gauthier, Laura Anne Booking Date: 12-12-2022 - 7:39 p.m.; Charges: FAILURE TO APPEAR, POSS OF SCH II, CONT SUB WITH PURPOSE DEL Released: Delong, Vincent Paul Release Date: 12-24-2022 - 10:50 p.m.; Booking Date: 12-23-2022 - 10:36 p.m.; Charges: CRIMINAL TRESPASS Poole, Brian Release Date: 12-23-2022 - 6:45 p.m.; Booking Date: 12-22-2022 5:47 p.m.; Charges: ASSAULT ON FAMILY OR HOUSEHOLD MEMBER, FALSE IMPRISONMENT, DOMESTIC BATTERY 2ND Lassiter, Chanta Coral Release Date: 12-21-2022 - 1:30 p.m.; Booking Date: 11-30-2022 - 5:38 p.m.; Charges: POSS SCH I OR II CONT SUB METH OR COCAI, POSSESSION DRUG PARA FELONY F UCR90Z, DISTRIBUTION NEAR CERTAIN FACILITIES E, HOLD FOR OTHER AGENCY Fulkerson, Benjamin Reed Release Date: 12-21-2022 - 9:45 a.m.; Booking Date: 12-08-2022 - 5:02 p.m.; Charges: MANSLAUGHTER, ASSULT 1ST DEGREERECKLESS CONDUCT, RECKLESS DRIVING, SPEEDING, CARELESS DRIVING Schrader, Michelle Lea Release Date: 12-20-2022 - 5:15 p.m.; Booking Date: 12-16-2022 10:57 p.m.; Charges: POSSESSION DRUG PARA FELONY F UCR90Z Runkle, Amanda Jo Release Date: 12-20-2022 - 12:28 p.m.; Booking Date: 12-16-2022 10:47 p.m.; Charges: POSSESSION DRUG PARA FELONY Lane, Tommy Release Date: 12-19-2022 - 3:04 p.m.; Booking Date: 12-14-2022 9:34 p.m.; Charges: FAILURE TO APPEAR MISDEMEANOR Qualls, Donnie J Release Date: 12-19-2022 - 2:48 a.m.; Booking Date: 12-17-2022 2:16 a.m.; Charges: FAILURE TO PAY FINES MISDEMEANOR Snyder, Steven Eugene Release Date: 12-18-2022 - 5:00 p.m.; Booking Date: 12-15-2022 12:31 p.m.; Charges: COMTEMT OF COURT Lansdell, Kayla Marie Release Date: 12-17-2022 - 10:31 a.m.; Booking Date: 12-16-2022 7:41 p.m.; Charges: THET OF PROPERTY, CRIMINAL TRESPASS Maxwell, Dakota Lee Release Date: 12-16-2022 - 1:43 p.m.; Booking Date: 12-16-2022 - 11:34 a.m.; Charges: CRIMINAL MISCHIEF Reach, Brianna Dawn Release Date: 12-16-2022 - 1:34 p.m.; Booking Date: 12-15-2022 4:36 a.m.; Charges: AGGRAVATED ASSAULT ON FAMILY OR HOUSEHOL Bohannan, Jimmy L Release Date: 12-16-2022 - 1:24 p.m.; Booking Date: 12-08-2022 5:58 p.m.; Charges: POSS OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA, POSS SCH I OR II METH OR COCAI; EXPIRED VEH TAGS; NO PROOF OF INSURANCE Bailey, Joesph Release Date: 12-16-2022 - 10:30 a.m.; Booking Date: 12-06-2022 12:56 p.m.; Charges: HOLD FOR DOC .

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