Opinion

Lightin Ridge

In the 60s, Houston Missouri had a weekly newspaper called the Houston Herald. The owner and editor were a man I got to know well.
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Clown or Mayor

When a clown takes over as the ringmaster of a one-ring circus—or, in this case, when an incompetent or unserious person becomes the mayor of a small city—things quickly descend into chaos. 1.
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Pets of the Week

Have A Heart Pet Shelter had a remarkable 2024. We have compiled all our statistics and are happy to share this information with our wonderful community.
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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.
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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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Letters to the Editor

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.
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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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