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Mountain Home- Baxter Regional Medical Center is pleased to again offer the Dr. Robert L. Kerr Medical/ Dental Student Scholarship Program, established to assist medical and dental students from the Baxter Regional service area with tuition. The goal of this scholarship is to encourage medical and dental students to practice in the Baxter Regional service area after completion of their medical or dental degree.

LITTLE ROCK– Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge joined a 27-state coalition urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a Ninth Circuit ruling that wrongly limited a high school football coach’s First Amendment rights. Coach Joseph Kennedy was disciplined for praying quietly and alone on the high school’s football field upon the conclusion of games. The school district previously implemented a policy prohibiting all religious activity by staff members in front of students or the public.

With oil and gas prices skyrocketing we the people are thinking. What are we going to do with the price of groceries going up, and now the oil and gas are going up day by day.

Little Rock– Assets for the Arkansas ABLE (Achieving a Better Life Experience) Plan grew by 76% during the past year, according to figures released Tuesday during a committee meeting for the Plan. Assets grew to more than $3 million from February 2021 through February 2022, said Treasurer of State Dennis Milligan, whose office administers the program.

LITTLE ROCK— Greenway Equipment Inc. partnered with country music star Jason Aldean to raise funds to combat food insecurity for children in the communities it serves, totaling $172,000 to be given to three area food banks.

The Fleet Reserve Assn. Branch 251 Monthly Meeting will be held in conjunction with the Quarterly Meeting of the South-Central Region.

The Friends of the Marion County Library will have their largest Book, Bake, and Yard Sale ever on Thursday, March 17, Friday, March 18, and Saturday March 19 at the Legion Hut in Yellville. The fiction tables will be covered with mysteries, suspense, best-sellers, classics, Westerns, fantasy, dystopia, beach reads, romance, paranormal, historical fiction, poetry, and Christian fiction.

BSL (Bull Shoals Library) is starting up a monthly Book Discussion Group. We will meet in the Library Annex Building on the first Monday each month at 10:00 a.m. for a lively discussion and light refreshments.