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At the University of Missouri, the science classes had the best of instructors. My college advisor was a mammalogy instructor by the name of Dr Campbell.
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Have you heard some people say, eating healthy is too expensive? The good news is you can eat healthy on a budget. Healthy eating is important at every age.
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Imagine that you were handed a 144-page contract on an issue of importance to you and your family on a Monday at five minutes until 5 p.m. The stipulation being that you had Tuesday to read and think about it before you could discuss it with your lawyer on Wednesday prior to making a decision on Thursday.
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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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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.
Read MoreLetters to the EditorJ.B. Hunt’s People-Focused Culture Earns National Honors
LOWELL – J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. (NASDAQ: JBHT), one of the largest supply chain solutions providers in North America, announced today it has been honored with national recognitions from Newsweek as one of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Women and Greatest Workplaces for Diversity and by Forbes as one of America’s Best Large Employers.
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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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I hired Nancy Smith Lynn a year or so ago to work with advertisers for my magazines. She owns a farm near Mt.
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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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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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