Opinion

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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The Lowe Down Protecting public notices

The relationship between public notices and newspapers goes hand-in hand to protect and inform citizens about changes in their communities and inform them of government actions. Publishing legals in newspapers that are delivered to subscribers and available around cities in news racks makes important information readily available. There are some who would like to end that practice and lessen the likelihood that the public will be notified of important information.
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A Man Who Made Predictions

A real-life naturalist is a man who has lived his life in the woods knows and sees and feels things that he knows the modern world will not understand Men who call themselves ‘Master Naturalists’ in this day and time are to be laughed at. There are lots of those. But real naturalists from an early time, like Muir and Miner and Burroughs, seem to be those who will never be again. They were taken seriously once, but not now. The ones I knew are either very old or dead. Henry David Thoreau once wrote “In wildness was the saving of mankind.” He was right!
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ABORTION

Life begins at the point of conception. No one can deny that after a human being is conceived it will develop into the very same being as those debating this issue.
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Walmart Lessons

I bought a Keurig coffee maker at the Walmart store in Houston, Mo in December and it quit working a little more than a month later. Got to where it wouldn’t make more than 2 ounces at a time. I took it back to the store in Houston, where I grew up, to ask if they would replace it. I was told I couldn’t get it replaced unless I had a receipt and the box it came in. Thank you and goodbye!
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