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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.

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.

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

News in 1978 and served as editor, photographer and co-publisher until 2005, when he sold the newspaper. In 2006 he joined the Texarkana Gazette as the Southwest Arkansas reporter and worked there until his retirement in May 2019.

William Thomas Taylor, Sr., 95, Little Rock, March 5. Taylor started at the then – Arkansas Democrat as a paperboy at age 13 in 1941.

June Biber Freeman, 95, Scottsdale, Arizona, July 4. The wife of Edmond Wroe Freeman, IIIinois, Freeman met her future husband as a graduate student at the University of Chicago. The couple then moved to Pine Bluff, where Edmond published the Pine Bluff Commercial with his brother. In the early 1960s, she led the effort to create the Little Firehouse Community Arts Center, which grew to become the Southeast Arkansas Arts and Science Center, the predecessor of the Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas. From 1975 to 1980, she worked as director of state services for the Arkansas Arts Center, where she transformed a large van into a mobile art gallery for residents of small towns and rural areas. Freeman also wrote the “Artline” column in the Pine Bluff Commercial From 1986 to 1995.

William Alvin “Bill” Whitworth, 87, Conway, March 8. Raised in Little Rock, Whitworth attended the University of Oklahoma, where was editor of OU’s student newspaper, the Oklahoma Daily, and worked for the Arkansas Democrat.

Rose Clemmons Gladner, 60, Hot Springs, July 30. The wife of Arkansas Broadcasters Association Executive Director Neal Gladner, Gladner worked for nearly 30 years in sales, mainly in print and broadcast media.