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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.

MANILA– Big Lake Wildlife Management Area and Big Lake National Wildlife Refuge will be closed to daytime public access March 6-12. The following week, the U of A (University of Arkansas) Pine Tree Wildlife Management Area will be closed March 13-19. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Wildlife Services, in cooperation with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, will be conducting aerial operations aimed at reducing feral hog populations in the areas. The flights will be dependent on the weather.

Pruning is a horticultural practice that modifies the growth and structure of the plant. The reasons for pruning include to promote a strong tree structure, provide balanced growth and productivity, provide quality light penetration, maintain a healthy plant, control plant size and train young plants.

Mountain Home (Grassroots Newswire)- According to the National Weather Service, March marks the start of the spring severe weather season: “…three months of danger that can imperil the unprepared.1”

$25.3 million went back into the hands of Farm Credit members across Arkansas in late February. As a financial cooperative, members share in the profits when their Farm Credit association has a profitable year.

To continue serving our community throughout this pandemic, we are now offering Covid testing throughout our NARMC clinics. Construction of our new Medical Plaza on Highway 65 North will begin within the month; therefore, we will be closing our Viral Screening Clinic beginning Friday, March 11.