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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.

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.

PINE BLUFF – Rocky Thornburg has been flying duck surveys long before any of the current Arkansas Game and Fish Commission biologists conducting surveys were on the agency payroll. A pilot based in Pine Bluff; Thornburg began flying low-altitude aerial waterfowl surveys in 1992 to allow AGFC staff to count ducks in the state.

Public Works issues dominated the March 2, 2022, Bull Shoals City Council meeting, which was rescheduled due to the sleet storm from February 24. Public Works Director Shane O’Grady said in his report the Department’s vehicle situation is dire, with Mayor David Nixon agreeing.