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The Backwood Rebel Band with Charlie Trammell, Bass Player; Donna Adams, Vocalist; Doug Mears, Drummer; Hazel Harvey, Vocalist; Jerry Merriman, Fiddle player; Dobber Hampton, Guitar, and Vocalist; and round out this band is Cleveland Merriman playing the Guitar and doing vocals.

On Saturday night, May 21, The CALL in Marion County was one of the sponsors for Music on The Square in Yellville. Representative Jack Fortner, Marion County Judge John Massey and Gregg Alexander purchased a Bass Pro Cooler to be raffled off. All proceeds went to The CALL.

The Mountain Home Lions Club presented the 3rd place Peace Poster Award certificate and check for $25.00 to the winner from Cotter High School, Jaycie Burroughs. Lions Club doubled the amount for her accomplishment.

Roses are one of the prettiest of the flowers. Some are shunned upon because they have the reputation of being hard to grow. Here are some tips to make it easier for you to grow and enjoy the beauty of the rose.

Step into the building behind her home and one will discover how and where Alicia Van Der Veer makes soap. Not just any plain soap by the kind that makes one want to use it to smell good and get clean. Each soap is made to look unique and have a name like none other.

“The first white settlers in Marion County were primarily men who came to explore and find new hunting and fishing grounds. They built crude one-room log cabins with little furniture, cleared small patches of land for gardens of corn and tobacco”. (Glen Johnson in History of Marion County, 1976)