As I began thinking about this topic, I remembered the trees of my childhood backyard on Alford Street. Fortunately, the folks who own the home now are friends of mine so when I asked if I could come take a look at “their” backyard, they were more than willing, so off I went.
Cooking with Mumzy Hello friends and readers of the Mountaineer Echo. I hope this week finds everyone in happy spirits and good health. I know you have noticed our paper has been cut down to twelve pages. I just want all of you to know this was not Robert nor my idea, but it came from upper management.
Hello All I wanted to post my Opinion and not a rant to you All. I openly admit that I am a transplant from Illinois over 5 years ago to this area! I came here for its Natural Beauty and some of the Best People I have ever met! I arrived just after a corrupt governing body had depleted and destroyed the city structure to the point of bankruptcy! The city held 23 bank accounts and money was totally unaccounted for! Leaving the city open to corruption and theft!
I spoke with Carl McBee Jr. a couple of weeks ago and he told me the changes are being made at the Echo which I look forward to.
When I first started thinking about writing a column about memories of my childhood in Flippin in the 1960’s, I had one particular memory in mind that I wanted to share. I’d thought about it for a couple of years. Here it is almost five months and some 20+ columns since I began Growing Up Flippin and that story remains untold because I kept hoping to find some photos, to no avail. It will wait no longer.
Hello, all, I hope everyone is doing well and in happy spirits. We are doing well here. We have big changes going on and I am sure everyone will notice them. I don’t like changes, but I am going to try my hardest to make the best out of this situation.
The October dinner meeting of the Marion County Cattlemen’s Association will be held Tuesday, October 25, at 6:30 in the old Yellville-Summit cafeteria. The meeting will be sponsored by First Service Bank and the program will be presented by the Marion County 4-H members.
This week, the House Republican Conference introduced our “Commitment to America” agenda for the 118th Congress. For the past two years, American families have suffered under Democrat policies.
According to the Arkansas Department of Health, suicide is the leading cause of violent death in Arkansas. In 2020, 583 Arkansans died by suicide. That same year, close to 46,000 individuals died by suicide nationwide. That is one death every 11 minutes.
In Dad and Grandpa McNew’s country pool hall, the old timer’s they called the front bench regulars were the same age then that I am now. I recognize the similarities in them that I now figure is normal for me and others in their seventies.