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Calico farmer’s market to open
CALICO ROCK — Calico Rock Farmers’ Market will begin its seventh season of operations April 20, according to market manager Rich Fischer. The market will continue to be coordinated by the Calico Rock Organization for Revitalization Efforts. Past and new vendors may register now. Items …
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Registration opens at Ozarka
MELBOURNE — Summer and fall registration has opened for new and returning students at Ozarka College. Summer I classes begin May 28 and the summer II session begins July 1. Fall classes begin Aug. 19. New student orientation is required for all degree-seeking new and …
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Cemetery cleanup set
CHARLOTTE — A cleanup at Center Grove Cemetery at Charlotte will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday. Volunteers are asked to bring rakes and tools.
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A Glance at Days Gone By
This building in Mount Pleasant served as the area’s hospital from the time of its dedication on May 31, 1928, until it closed in early 1941. According to an article written by Craig Ogilvie in the July 2011 edition of the Izard County Historian, Dr. …
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‘Unfortunate affray’ led to 1877 death of farms’ founder
SULPHUR ROCK — Five Carter families who are descended from Rufus Harvison still own parts of the land Harvison homesteaded in Independence County in 1852. The Carters were recently recognized by the Independence County Quorum Court for being among several farmers in northeast Arkansas also …
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Weight management is topic
White River Medical Center in Batesville is hosting a free Community Health Education event on weight management from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday in Conference Room B of the Josephine Raye Rogers Center for Women and Imaging. WRMC’s Cardiac Rehab supervisor, Jennifer Coleman, will be …
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News of Other Days
Editor’s note: This column ran previously in the Guard on Nov. 10, 1993.
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‘You’ve got to have skin in the game’ – ICEDC wants to continue economic development tax
The county’s quarter-cent economic development tax is due to “sunset” (end) in December, and supporters are gearing up for a campaign to continue the tax. Wednesday night, Batesville Area Chamber of Commerce and Independence County Economic Development Commission members came together with city and county …
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Police chase ends in arrest
A police chase and manhunt that lasted for more than an hour Tuesday afternoon ended with the arrest of John H. Figueroa, 36, of Fairfield Bay in a remote area of Grassy Creek near the Independence and Cleburne County lines. Pleasant Plains Marshal Matthew Thomas …
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CR employees to get pay raise
NEWARK — Employees of the Cedar Ridge School District will soon be seeing a little more money in their paychecks. The Cedar Ridge School Board Tuesday night approved a $200 across-the-board salary increase for certified and classified employees. The cost will be about $34,000 to …
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Franklin woman: Daughter crossed finish line before bombs exploded
FRANKLIN — Virginia Wolford was at the Franklin Community Building wrapping up an afternoon event with the Extension Homemakers Club when her boss called and wanted to know if she had been in contact with her daughter. “Have you heard there is a bombing?” he …
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Dates announced for Cave City spring cleanup
CAVE CITY — Cave City’s Spring Clean-Up will be held April 22-25, April 29 and 30 and May 1, said city finance manager/recorder Krystal Schreiner. “However, we do not know which end or side of town they will be starting on so make sure to …
