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A Very Taxing Season

This year’s tax season is expected to be difficult. Even the national director of the Taxpayer Advocate Service recently referred to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as an agency “in crisis” with backlogged returns, staff shortages and other historic pandemic-related challenges.
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Covid19 up for third week

Little Rock - For the third consecutive week, all of Arkansas’s 234 contiguous public-school districts have COVID-19 infection rates of 50 or more new known infections per 10,000 district residents over a 14-day period, but the number of districts in the “pink zone” has decreased, the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement said Wednesday, citing its analysis of Arkansas Department of Health data current as of Monday.
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Baxter Regional COVID-19 Update

Mountain Home– As of today, there are 552 active COVID-19 cases in Baxter County, which is what we hope to be the beginning of a downward trend. There are currently 32 COVID-19 patients admitted at Baxter Regional, with 7 in ICU and 5 on ventilators. There are 27 Baxter Regional employees with active COVID-19, at home and in isolation.
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The monthly meeting of the Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary, Unit 30 will be held on Wednesday, February 16, 2021 at 1:00 p.m.  Location is the Heinz-Willet Center Media  Room at Good Samaritan Society, 200 Good Samaritan Drive, Mountain Home, AR. 

Anyone interested in helping veterans is invited to attend, member or non-member.  For further information contact Geri Butts, 870-424-4424. Login to continue reading Login Sign up for access Sign Up…

Read MoreThe monthly meeting of the Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary, Unit 30 will be held on Wednesday, February 16, 2021 at 1:00 p.m.  Location is the Heinz-Willet Center Media  Room at Good Samaritan Society, 200 Good Samaritan Drive, Mountain Home, AR. 

Almost 80% of school districts with significant Covid 19 issues

Despite a few signs that the Omicron Wave of infections may have peaked in parts of the United States, Covid-19 hospitalization in Arkansas surged yesterday (Wednesday) to a new pandemic high of 1,819. An official at the Arkansas Department of Health noted that because the state in not tracking positive results from at-home tests, the number of infections reported daily by the agency is only “the tip of the iceberg,” and urged Arkansans to continue to take precautions.
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