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Cooking with Mumzy!

Cooking with Mumzy Hello friends of the Mountaineer Echo. I hope this week finds you all in good health and happy spirits. We are all doing well here with my family. I am going to do some simple recipes that we remember from our childhood.
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Todaro for MC Treasurer

Tony Todaro has announced he is a candidate for Marion County Treasurer. Todaro was appointed Collector unanimously by the Marion County Quorum Court in January to complete the remaining year of the former collector’s term. In just two short months the Collector’s office has cut wasteful spending and updating office practices to make it more efficient.
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Applications now open for Medical/Dental Scholarship from Baxter Regional Hospital Foundation

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.
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Rutledge Urges the Supreme Court to Side with Coach’s Religious Freedom to Pray

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.
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ABLE Assets See Exponential Growth Under Milligan Administration

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.
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FOMCL Book and Bake sale

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.
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