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Fleet Reserve to meet

January 15, 2025

The Fleet Reserve Association Branch 251 monthly meeting will be held on January18, 2025 at the American Legion Post 52, 717 Market Street, Mountain Home. We will be having a membership drive and inviting new perspective members to a Pizza Party in the American Legion Auxiliary Hall at 12 Noon.

Lightin Ridge

January 15, 2025

During the archery season in September, a hunter killed a young buck just west of Highway 63 between Houston and Licking Missouri. It looked healthy but testing showed it to be infected with TSE, (Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy).

Snow covers trees

January 15, 2025

Anderson to speak at Economic Update Luncheon

January 15, 2025

The economics of agriculture will be the topic of the 2025 Economic Update Luncheon presented by The Point Financial and the North Arkansas College Foundation. The luncheon will be held on Tuesday, January 21, in the John Paul Hammerschmidt Conference Center on Northark’s South Campus.

Best of Twin Lakes 2024

January 15, 2025

Lacie Bettencourt and Margaret Ott of Ol South Catering Company was named Best Food Truck and Best Catering Company for the Best of Twin Lakes 2024 in Flippin Jennifer Obert, Lynsie Treat, Savanna Woelbing and Mariah are pictured above after being named Best of Twin Lakes 2024 Hair Salon in Flippin. Below is a picturesque photo of cardinals sitting on branches of trees in the snow that gathered during the snowstorm last weekend in Mountain Home.

January 15, 2025

Friday- Partly cloudy with a high near 51 degrees and a low near 30 degrees. Saturday- Mostly cloudy with a high near 38 degrees and a low around 17 degrees.

Winter Storm Blankets AR

January 15, 2025

On January 10 and 11, Arkansas saw Winter Storm Cora blow through the state and dump large amounts of wet snow covering the landscape with a fresh white blanket of snow that was a welcome sight for children from Southeast to Northwest Arkansas. Some areas watched in amazement as a foot plus fell to the ground. Here some pictures from Marion County and surrounding areas. More photos at flippinonline.com

December 31, 2024

Marion County Sheriff Gregg Alexander reports that he was notified on December 20, 2024, that the Marion County Sheriff’s Department has been recognized as an accredited law enforcement agency after recently completing a review conducted by a staff member from the Arkansas Association of Chiefs of Police (AACP) Alexander stated the department recently earned Tier II (Basic Accreditation) status.

BH Welcomes Debra Wilhite, APRN, to Baxter Health Cardiovascular Clinic

December 31, 2024

Baxter Health is pleased to welcome Debra Wilhite, APRN, to Baxter Health Cardiovascular Clinic. She is a board-certified nurse practitioner practicing alongside Dr. Zaid Alirhayim, Dr. Michael Camp, Dr. Akihiro Kobayashi, Dr. Jamon Pruitt, Dr. Patrick Tobbia, Dr. Otis Warr, and nurse practitioners Denise Beeson and Leah Fountain.

Derwood Brett

December 31, 2024

magazine in Little Rock, then in 1988 he became general manager of Helena Daily World. In 1991, he returned to Louisiana as publisher of the Minden Press Herald. After he left the newspaper business he worked as communications manager for Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas, then as manager of Clay County Electric Cooperative before retiring to Mount Ida.