The 75th annual Arkansas Farm Family of the Year program has named the 2022 County Farm Families of the Year. The families will be visited by a set of judges to determine eight District Farm Families of the Year, which will be announced June 14. The state Farm Family of the Year will be announced in December at the Farm Family of the Year luncheon.
A fish fry will be held at BB Road VFD and Community Center on Saturday, May 21 from 4 to 7:30 p.m. The meal will incude fish, salads, sides, dessert and beverages. Cost will be $10 for adults, $6 for children and preschoolers eat free. Take outs will be available.
Spotlighting “the collective strength of the United States travel industry” was the focus of this year’s Arkansas Tourism Week, which was celebrated May 1-7. In honor of National Travel and Tourism Week 2022, Mammoth Spring State Park held its annual Tourism Day on Saturday, May 7, which had not been held the last couple of years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mammoth Spring State Park held Tourism Day on Saturday, May 7. Photos/Renee Janes .
On April 10, 2021 an unthinkable tragedy happened in an otherwise quiet community. The setting was the Snappy Mart in Koshkonong, Mo. located on Hwy. 63 around 5 a.m., a place where people come in to get their coffee, their morning’s fare and go about their day. The tragedy on that otherwise normal day was a sudden inexplicable brutal shooting of customers by a man with a hand gun.
Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson has announced he is commuting the sentences of several convicted felons, including a convicted murderer from Fulton County. The governor’s announcement Wednesday, May 4 included Bryan E. Dickinson who was convicted of first degree murder in Fulton County in 2000. He was sentenced to 480 months in the state prison system and was housed at the Brickeys Unit in eastern Arkansas.
The Missouri State University Board of Governors Executive Committee approved increases in tuition and fees for the 2022-2023 academic year at Missouri State University-West Plains (MSU-WP) on April 20.
A new report from the Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance shows coverage has dropped nearly 50 percent since 2000 The Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance (DCI) has issued a new Earthquake Insurance Market Report that shows earthquake coverage in the highest risk areas of the New Madrid fault region of the state has hit historic lows. In the six-county New Madrid region of the state, the percentage of residences with earthquake coverage has declined by an astonishing 49 percentage points between 2000 and 2021, from 60.2 to 11.4 percent.
The Missouri Department of Natural Resources invites Missourians to celebrate drinking water week by taking a moment to reflect on the importance of a clean abundant supply of quality tap water. Whether you use it to cool off after a workout or warm up in a hot bath, your tap water is there when you need it.
Springfield Nature Center staff will host online event about these interesting birds. Hummingbirds fascinate humans for a variety of reasons.