Opinion

Peter Rabbit Party

This month we got together to celebrate Easter with “A Tale of Peter Rabbit” Party! The room was decorated as Mr. McGregor’s garden, and he would be mad with all the rabbits that showed up! We had a book reading, trivia questions, played group games like “pass the bunny tail”, “jellybean race”, and more.
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Public Announcement:

The special meeting is scheduled to be held Thursday, March 28, 2024, at 6 p.m., in the Yellville Annex Courthouse. The purpose of this convention is to elect delegates from our County Committee to the Special District Convention where Delegates and Alternates to the National Convention will be elected.
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Letters to the Editors

Recently Bull Shoals City Councilman Dale Forbus made a post on the local Facebook page “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”. There is a lot of bad and ugly there, but it’s hard to find anything good.
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Letters to the Editors

The City Council is supposed to be the voice of the people. As long as, the citizens’ requests are reasonable and within the costs of the city budget, those reasonable requests must be adhered to.
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An Ounce of Prevention

LITTLE ROCK – The state Division of Children and Family Services has intensified preventative services in troubled families and managed to lower the number of children in foster homes. Over the previous two years, the number of Arkansas children in foster care has gone down from 4,614 to 3,698.
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House Report

Yellville - February marks the beginning of American Heart Month, a crucial period dedicated to raising awareness about heart health and the prevalence of heart disease. In the United States and in Arkansas, heart disease stands as the leading cause of death.
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The Prayer Duck

When I am hunting and fishing now, I am almost always alone, and I have conversations with myself. Some say that when someone does that, it is an indication that they are crazier than a pet coon, but I ain’t. Crazy people ask themselves questions. I don’t do that. I did sometimes when I was younger, but I could never answer any of the questions I would ask myself, so I gave that up.
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