The statewide gas price average in Arkansas was $2.86 for a gallon of regular unleaded fuel on Thursday, according to the AAA Arkansas Weekend Gas Watch. That price is five cents more compared to that day last week and is 31 cents less per gallon compared to that day last year.

ADH produces a Weekly Viral Respiratory Diseases Report for clinicians. The report provides information on Influenza, COVID-19 and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) activity in the state. The report also compares activities in Arkansas to the U.S. ADH receives reports of only a fraction of COVID-19 cases and flu cases since it only requires reports of flu hospitalizations, deaths, and outbreaks. RSV is not a reportable disease in Arkansas. Therefore, it is important to understand that the information in the weekly update is representative of the timing and location of activity, but it does not reflect the overall disease burden.

Greetings from cool, windy Capps.

Wow, what a change in the weather from 90 degrees on Saturday to 30 degrees. We got all my flowers in. I hate cold weather and I hate wearing a coat and sweater. Hope it is pretty this weekend.

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

YELLVILLE — The office of Marion County Sheriff Gregg Alexander recently reported two death investigations that were both determined to be from natural causes.

LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT) is proposing to widen Highway 65 in Boone and Newton counties, from Highway 206 to just north of Gladden Street, within the city limits of Western Grove.

PYATT — According to a press release issued by the office of Marion County Sheriff Gregg Alexander on Thursday, a body was found during a recent structure fire in Pyatt. The sheriff’s office reported that on Monday, Oct. 14, at approximately 8:21 p.m., the Marion County Emergency 911 Center received a call of a structure fire on Marion County Road 3015 in the rural Pyatt area of Marion County.

JASPER — Specialist Jordan Edgmon, of the Arkansas National Guard, is assigned as an analyst to the 14th Judicial District Drug Task Force based in Harrison.

LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas Beef Council announced the top 10 finalists of the inaugural Arkansas’s Best Burger Contest, a statewide competition celebrating 100% beef burgers prepared by Arkansas restaurants. The "Cheese Hi-Boy" from the Daisy Queen in Harrison, and the "Local Burger" from the Wooden Spoon Provisions, a food truck in Jasper, are the finalists from Region 1.

October Personal Care and Hygiene Donations – The library will be accepting personal care and hygiene item donations to be distributed to community members in need. Please take donations to the front desk.

Those involved in train operations must have an approved railroad watch that has been compared with Standard Time prior to the run. Standard Time clocks are located Joplin, Neosho and Harrison for the First District. You would typically compare times with your engineer prior to departure from Harrison so that you are both confident that you have the correct time. In the 1930’s there were no wrist watches considered capable of maintaining correct time, so approved pocket watches were required, and those had to be inspected by an approved company jeweler from time to time. It was every railroader’s prized possession and was sometimes a family heirloom passed from one generation of railroaders to the next.

GREEN FOREST — At approximately 8:51 p.m., on Oct. 4, Green Forest police were dispatched to an apartment complex on a report that a man was attempting to steal speakers from a motor vehicle. According to the affidavit of probable cause filed in Carroll County Eastern District Circuit Court on Oct. 14, when Officer Michael Voigt arrived on the scene, a witness reported that she had come outside to her vehicle and discovered her neighbor was sitting inside of it, “passed out,” with an unhooked speaker box in his lap.