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Mountain Home – Baxter Regional Medical Center has been selected as one of Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work in Healthcare for the second consecutive year. The complete list of 2022 winners is available at ModernHealthcare.com/bestplaceslist, and a special supplement featuring a ranked list of all the winners will be published along with the October 3 issue of Modern Healthcare.

On July 3, Hickey Park will be the place to be to celebrate the nation’s Independence Day as the Flippin Fireworks Festival gets off to a booming start. This year’s entertainment will be featuring Nashville recording artist, Tyler Braden. If ever there was a country artist ready to set the world on fire, it would have to be Tyler Braden.

Little Rock – Applications for the 2022 Arkansas alligator season are available at www.agfc.com from 8 a.m., June 15 through midnight, June 30. Anyone interested in pursuing alligators on public land in Arkansas must apply for one of the six hunting locations within two of Arkansas’s three open Alligator Management Zones.

It’s always a good time to subscribe to Arkansas Wildlife, the bimonthly magazine produced by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, although this may be the best time of year. The July-August issue of the magazine is the calendar edition, full of information about the Arkansas outdoors such as hunting dates and sunrise/sunset times, and stunning photos of native wildlife.

Silver Dollar City gets the whole story this week. There is so much to do down in the city, it is great for the whole family or a getaway just for two. Be sure and visit websites of the places you would like to go and look for discounted tickets to make your trip more economical friendly.