Opinion

Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Every Thursday we look forward to our mail and each issue of your paper which reports the local news in our wonderful Ozarks. Larry Dablemont of Lightning Ridge is a favorite as well as all the memories of Growing Up Flippin by Cindy Young.
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Lightin Ridge

I got a call this morning from a dairy farmer who says there is a bear hanging around his barn that sends his dairy cows into a panic, and they won’t even go into the barn to be milked. He says he believes it is a female with a cub because he has seen the cub in past years.
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Letters tothe Editor

The crushing effect of sales on those citizens low income and fixed income. Arkansas legislature has a plan to eliminate the State income tax, but that does nothing to alleviate what now is a burden on those on low and fixed income.
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Letters to the Editor

I would like to start off by saying I am not a bot or a scammer. I am a married 33-year-old woman from Marion County, Arkansas. My oldest two sons are transgender, female to male, and my older one is gay.
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Conservation Corner

FAYETTEVILLE — Managing feral swine — the land-damaging, disease-carrying wild hogs that roam throughout the country — starts with good data, according to Nana Tian, a forest economics researcher for the Arkansas Forest Resources Center. To serve as a baseline for feral swine damage assessments to private landowners and help guide management practices, the Arkansas Forest Resources Center in Monticello led a multi-state survey of 4,500 landowners to gauge economic damage to croplands, forestlands, pasturelands/livestock and their combinations.
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Lightin Ridge

I learned something about skunks recently. I drove from my home to Bull Shoals Lake in North Arkansas last week, then up to Texas County and eventually back home to Lightnin’ Ridge here about 40 miles to the north of Springfield.
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Growing Up Flippin

This week’s memory actually starts slightly before the 1960s and in Springfield, Missouri rather than Flippin. As I’ve mentioned previously, I was born during the years my family lived in Springfield and we moved back to Flippin when I was five years old.
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Crooked Creek

Something we can look at planting in the Spring for hay or forage production is Oats. This often-overlooked grain has been developed over the years to have more forage potential than the original development as a grain crop, however it can still be harvested for grain.
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