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Little Rock – The recent auction of tax-delinquent properties in Marion County raised over $700,000, the Commissioner of State Lands announced. The auction drew 43 bidders, who purchased 43 of the 53 available parcels for a total of $701,464.70 for county and state government.

The Yellville City Council met Monday, August 1, to discuss city business to include old business, new business and paying the bills in the Yellville City Hall. Shawn Lane led the meeting that was attend by Clark Gustin, Ken Rigmaiden, Maggie Davenport, Vickie Fogerty and Lorna Goodwin representing the city council.

The recent auction of tax-delinquent properties in Boone County raised over $495,000, the Commissioner of State Lands announced. The auction drew 59 bidders, who purchased 142 of the 158 available parcels for a total of $495,094.98 for county and state government.

Little Rock — Experts with the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture will host a free webinar July 21 to offer guidance to Arkansas cattle producers struggling with drought. “Our cattle producers statewide are struggling right now to survive this drought, and many of them face some tough decisions,” Vic Ford, extension’s associate president for agriculture and natural resources, said.

Little Rock –The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will survey producers in 32 states, including Arkansas, for its 2022 Small Grains County Agricultural Production Survey (CAPS).

Fayetteville – Effective July 25, Chap Sampson, MD, and Jessica Short, MD, of the Washington Regional Rheumatology Clinic will begin seeing the patients in the new location across from the Washington Regional Medical Center campus in Fayetteville. The new clinic address is 3276 N. Northhills Blvd.

The Arkansas State Police is conducting an internal review and investigation into the death of a Kentucky man who fled from an Arkansas State Trooper yesterday (Sunday, July 24) during a pursuit that began in Forrest City.

Mountain Home – Baxter Regional Health System has announced that effective July 11, 2022, Baxter Regional Hometown Clinic at Mammoth Spring joined Baxter Regional Family Health Care. That clinic is located at 350 Main Street #4 in Mammoth Spring, and Leslie Batterton, APRN, has moved her practice to this location and joined Tamra Ward, APRN.