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Mountain Home – Baxter County Library’s Summer Reading Challenges for children, tweens, teens, and adults will be wrapping up soon. Be sure to update your reading log with the Beanstack app by August 6 to be eligible for prizes.

The Veteran Rapid Retraining Assistance Program (VRRAP) offers education and training for high-demand jobs to Veterans who are unemployed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Keep reading to find out if you are eligible and how to apply.

The Flippin City Council met on Tuesday, July 19, at 6 p.m. in the courtroom at the Flippin City Hall.

Little Rock – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) encourages urban producers and others to attend the second public meeting of the Federal Advisory Committee for Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production Aug. 5.

On Thursday, July 14, former President Bill Clinton delivered the eulogy for one of his oldest friends and former State Auditor and State treasurer Jimmie Lou Fisher. Clinton landed in Jonesboro to attend the funeral in Paragould in the middle of the day at the Mitchell Funeral Home.

Mountain Home – Baxter Regional Medical Center was recently named one of the Best Places to Work in Arkansas for the fourth year in a row. This ninth annual program was created by Arkansas Business and Workforce Research Group.

Little Rock – Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge joined a coalition of 20 state attorneys general in urging the United States Supreme Court to hear Lowery v. Joffe. The case stems from a 2010 class action lawsuit related to Google’s Street View cars collecting millions of consumers’ private data without consumers’ knowledge.

Scientists conducting research on tick-transmitted cattle diseases in Arkansas have turned up new samples of the invasive Asian longhorned tick. The Asian longhorned tick, also known as a bush tick, was found in May by Elizabeth Smith, extension entomology program tech for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, who was collecting ticks from cattle at the Savoy Research Complex.