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Arvest Bank Named to Forbes’ America’s Best Employers 2025 List
The bank has made the prestigious list for four consecutive years. – Arvest Bank today announced it has been named to the 2025 Forbes’ list of America’s Best Employers.
Lightin Ridge
I don’t remember when the old hound wasn’t around. He was that old.
Lightin Ridge
There was no underestimating the size of the walleye I hooked. He was a dandy, five or six pounds at least and maybe bigger.
Lightin Ridge
The Missouri Department of Conservation has told a few dozen landowners in Texas county they intend to come into a 25-square-mile tract of land and set up bait and lights to night-shoot 110 deer. This is part of an attempt to find transmissible spongiform encephalitis, which they commonly call CWD or ‘chronic wasting disease’.
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Does this seem like a bad nightmare that keeps repeating itself? The AR state Legislature seems intent on doing just that! Approximately ten years ago a similar proposal approving CAFOs within the BNR watershed (geographically defined as Karst terrain) was on the table with ADEQ. Fortunately, the word got out (because the public was required to be notified), and after a lengthy and costly legal battle, the CAFO was shut down; primarily because of the extensive damage such an operation can, and did, cause the Buffalo River watershed.
Flippin Passes Resolutions
By Elizabeth Johnson, Flippin City Recorder The regular meeting of the Flippin City Council was held Tuesday, November 26, at 5:30 p.m. at the Flippin District Court Room. Members present were Lacie Bettencourt, Tony Ford, Jodi Howard, and Margaret Ott, with Mayor Heith Hogan presiding.
Lightin Ridge
The most perfect Christmas trees I have ever seen are found along the highway between Springfield, Missouri, and Branson. They are perfectly formed, many not much wider than a lampshade and five or six feet tall.
LOVE HOPE & JOY
Love Brings Hope & Hope Gives Joy 1John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. Love is some time hard, but it is what makes life work, without love there is no Hope and there is no Joy.
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This is in regard to the honesty and good work done by Merle Fawcett at Hot Shot Enterprises on our 1995 25 ft. pontoon this summer. He was very fair with us and did an excellent job of restoring our pontoon. When recommending seat covering his mom, Linda Fawcett, who works there suggested white because I wanted something that didn’t get hot.