The next full Moon will be Thursday morning, Oct. 17, 2024, at 6:26 a.m. Central. The Moon will appear full for about three days around this time, from Tuesday evening through Friday morning.

On Saturday, Oct. 19, Epsilon Sigma Alpha’s Harrison Chapter - Beta Upsilon, will host a 5K run benefiting St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. Medals will be awarded to the top three finishers in each age group.

The statewide gas price average in Arkansas was $2.81 for a gallon of regular unleaded fuel on Thursday, according to the AAA Arkansas Weekend Gas Watch. That price is flat compared to that day last week and is 47 cents less per gallon compared to that day last year.

Greetings from Capps.

Lunch is served from 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.

The Boone County Quorum Court held its monthly meeting Tuesday, Oct. 8, at the Office of Emergency Management in Harrison.

On Tuesday, October 8, an Arkansas Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force investigation led to the arrest of a Harrison man for 50 counts of Possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), among other charges.

YELLVILLE — Mark Lee is a patrol sergeant with the Marion County Sheriff’s Office. The department has a staff of 22, according to Lee. The officer has been with the Marion County Sheriff’s Office for over 5 years, starting his career with Marion County in August of 2019 as a jailer in the detention center, and then hitting the road in November of 2020.

Join Lead Hill FFA for their Annual free Community “Basketball and BBQ” at Friday the 18.

Holly Carson, current executive director of Ozark Share and Care, shared an update on the organization this week. Share and Care has been a major contributor to aiding those in need in Harrison for decades. “It was established in the late 1980s by a group of churches, civic organizations and other generous people from the Harrison community,” said Carson.

LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission has partnered with Nativ, a leading Arkansas-based outdoor apparel brand, to launch a limited edition collection of apparel benefitting the Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation.

JASPER — In a Sept. 30 press release from the Newton County Sheriff's Office, Sheriff Glenn Wheeler said on Saturday Sept. 28, his office was notified of a domestic dispute in which a man had allegedly threatened to kill a female and produced a gun. The female was able to get away and run to a neighboring house to call for help.

Enough time has passed since the last train order was issued by the Harrison Dispatcher to M&A trains that many of our readers may not have much information about how the railroad ran trains both directions over a single main line track without having collisions and delays. For those old heads that dispatched and ran the M&NA trains today’s systems would seem like pure magic. Even in my own railroad career there have been many seminal changes that have occurred and we’ve had to embrace a lot of new technology. Much of that technology has enhanced not only the safety of train operations but also the safety of those of us who maintain and construct the track and bridges out on the line. Much of the “old ways” are now long gone (try to find a telegraph operator familiar with Railroad Morse Code these days!). So let’s go back to the year 1930 and see how they did it.