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LITTLE ROCK — Last spring, students in Arkansas took a new state test called ATLAS – the Arkansas Teaching, Learning, and Assessment System. It replaces the old state test and is aligned to Arkansas grade-level standards.
YELLVILLE — Going strong for 78 years, the Yellville Annual Turkey Trot Festival last weekend was a hit yet again, with the event seeing record-breaking attendance.
North Arkansas Partnership for Health Education (NAPHE), Project Prevent, and the Boone County Ignite Drug Free Communities Coalition, in collaboration with our Boone County School Districts, would like to invite the community to take a visible stand against drugs by Celebrating Red Ribbon Week from Oct. 23-31.
October is National Cookie Month, and who doesn't love a good cookie? Making cookies is one of my least favorite baking tasks, just because cookies, start to finish, are so time consuming. But I do love cookies!
Akino Cates loves Harrison. "It's a great place to make your home and raise a family," she shares. Cates was born and raised in Japan; then she met her husband, Wayne, when he was stationed as a Marine in Okinawa. The couple married in 2004. They have two daughters — Akira, and Dacey.
FAYETTEVILLE — A sweet-and-smokey barbecue sauce designed around surplus carrots is the newest product rolling out from the Expanding Farmers’ Opportunities in Northwest Arkansas program.
Harry Ironside was laid aside for dead when he was born on October 14, 1876 in Toronto, Canada. His mother was in a bad state and needed of all the attention she could get if she were to pull through. But God had big plans for the "dead" baby. A nurse detected a feeble pulse in him. She popped him into a bath of hot water and he quickly exercised the vocal cords which would declare Christ to perhaps a million listeners over the course of his life.
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