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Courtesy of Veterans Affairs Mary Francis Biggs of Lexington Park, Maryland, participated in a conspiracy organized by her daughter, Angela Farr, in which false and fraudulent documents were submitted to VA in support of disability claims in the name of Biggs’ husband. The fraudulent documents stated that the husband was homebound and required full-time assistance for basic tasks such as eating, bathing, and dressing.

The North Central Arkansas Military Service Sisters will be holding their August luncheon on Friday August 26 at 12 Noon. Location will be Chen’s Restaurant in Mountain Home on Highway 62.

by Cleo Martin The most troublesome kinds of wasps around the house are yellow jackets, hornets and the Polistes wasps. The Polistes wasps are the ones that make the saucer or umbrella shaped nests under eaves of houses and in the shrubbery or other protected places.

The Turkey Trot 5K and Little Turkey 1 Mile are part of the Turkey Trot festival in mid-October, in Yellville. The run will be held on Saturday, October 15, at 7:30 a.m.

Results of experiment in small grain management completed during 1956 through 1960 have been released by the University of Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station. Grain yields of oats did not differ on seedbeds by plowing about July 8, August 8 or by disking September 8.

Yellville-Summit School District will be hosting its Annual Title I Meeting, on Monday, September 12, 2022 at 3:30 p.m. in the Yellville-Summit Elementary Cafeteria.

After passing legislation to accelerate tax cuts and provide funding for school safety, the 93rd General Assembly adjourned from a special session on Thursday. In December of 2021, the General Assembly passed legislation outlining the largest tax cut in state history.