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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.

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.

Little Rock — With turkey hunting season wrapped up, many hunters will be putting away their shotguns until fall, but there’s another spring season that gives Arkansas hunters plenty of reasons to keep the scattergun cleaned and ready. Arkansas’s squirrel season opens May 15, and for those who enjoy chasing these treetop targets, it’s a great excuse to be in the woods.

The William J. Clinton Library and Museum is the presidential library of 42nd President Bill Clinton. Located in Little Rock on 17 acres beside the Arkansas river, the 68,698-square-foot library and its archives are currently the largest of the 13 presidential libraries.

“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)