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Since 2010, the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery has helped raise more than $1.1 billion to fund more than 675,000 scholarships for students attending 51 Arkansas colleges and universities. This week we want to remind you about the fast-approaching deadline to apply for the next round of scholarships.

Yellville-Summit proudly released the Second Semester Honor Roll for all A’s and 3.0 for the third grade through sixth grade. The following students received all A’s for the Second Semester: Third Grade All A’s - Addison Denzlinger, Olivia Duffy, Gracelyn Freeman, Aurora Gieck, Sarah Lane, Eben Rogers, Saben Thurman, Aaliyah Hennings, CJ Knighton, Rylan Robertson, Bailey Wallace, Andrew Brantner, Owen Dufresne, Cass Hill, Lilah Seward, Alayna Stumph, and Kasandra Yocham.

Little Rock – Two new virtual statewide charter schools have been approved by the Arkansas Board of Education. The board’s action allows Founders Classical Academy to add as many as 500 slots for students in kindergarten through twelfth grade.

As our nation mourns the death of nineteen students and two teachers at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, the national conversation has turned again to the need to make our schools more secure. In Arkansas, educators and legislators have long recognized the need for vigilance to keep our children safe.

In 1722, when French explorer Jean-Baptiste Bernard de La Harpe and his crew were exploring by way of the Arkansas River, they came upon what they called “La Petite Roche” or “The Little Rock” on the south bank of the river. This “little rock” became a landmark for travelers and gave The Natural State the name for its future capital city.

A proposed high water launching ramp and the sidewalk project brought a good citizen turnout to the Bull Shoals Council meeting May 26. Previously Council asked Nixon to continue looking into a high-water launching ramp at an undetermined location near Bull Shoals and how it might be funded. Frequent high lake levels over the past few years have made accessing the lake difficult when launching ramps and parking lots are flooded.

Washington, DC - Congressman Steve Womack (AR-3), Chairman of the West Point Board of Visitors (BOV), today joined Superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy Lt. Gen. Darryl Williams, Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley, Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. James McConville, and other Army leaders at the U.S. Military Academy’s (USMA) graduation ceremony. The event honored the more than a thousand young men and women, including four cadets from the Third District, who were recently commissioned into the United States Army as second lieutenants.