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Moose Lodge to host pork loin dinner

The Legionnaires of Mountain Home Moose Lodge #1953 will host their first monthly fundraising dinner event of the new year this coming Friday, January 28, from 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. The menu will include a generous portion of mouth-watering stuffed pork loin with Waldorf dressing, mashed potatoes, corn, roll, coleslaw and a beverage.
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Montgomery Seeks Reelection

Sheriff John Montgomery is seeking his ninth term as Baxter County Sheriff. With 30+ years of law enforcement experience, he and his seasoned management team have transformed the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office into a premier law enforcement organization of which the Baxter County citizens can be proud.
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Sen. Flippo Presented 2021 Statesman Award

LITTLE ROCK, AR – Senator Scott Flippo of Mountain Home was awarded the 2021 Statesman Award by Family Council Action Committee. Senator Flippo received the award for making an A on the 2021 Family Council Action Committee legislative report card. Recipients of this award are recognized for their votes during the 93rd General Assembly on the bills scored in the report card. Senator Flippo received his award on January 20, 2022, at the Arkansas State Capitol in Little Rock.
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A Special Place to Remember a Better Time

What I would like to leave behind me when I am gone and forgotten, originated in a dream from 30 years ago. That is when I began to think about a special museum somewhere between Cabool, Houston and Licking along highway 17 concerning the old time Ozarks and old days Ozarkians, and my beloved Big Piney River, where I spent so much of my boyhood exploring the length of it. In Arkansas, I worked as the first Naturalist for the State Park system right out of college in 1971, I really got into constructing interpretive centers for four or five of the largest state parks. Then I continued it when I went to work later as a naturalist for the National Park Service on the Buffalo River.
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Restoring Native Habitat

Restoring native habitats to at least 20% of the world’s land currently being used by humans for farming, ranching and forestry is necessary to protect biodiversity and slow species loss, according to a newly published study conducted by a team of environmental scientists. The analysis found that this can be done in ways that minimize trade-offs and could even make farms more productive by helping to control pests, enhancing crop pollination and preventing losses of nutrients and water from soil. These working landscapes can still be grazed, mowed, harvested or burned, as long as these activities sustain or restore native species diversity.
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