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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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Birdhouse workshop offered
JONESBORO — The Forrest L. Wood Crowley’s Ridge Nature Center will have a “gourdeous” birdhouse workshop from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Saturday. Gourds provide a natural, protective nesting site for birds and offer many hours of bird watching. All supplies are furnished. There is no …
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Fairview to host old-time revival
VIOLET HILL — Fairview Baptist Church in Violet Hill will hold an old-time revival at 6 p.m. April 21 and at 7 p.m. April 22 through 24. Curt Howard will be the evangelist. For more information call Randy Bailey, pastor, at (870) 322-7316.
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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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Police: 5 to 15 people killed in Texas explosion
WEST, Texas — Rescue workers are still searching rubble for survivors of a fertilizer plant explosion Wednesday evening in a small Texas town that killed as many as 15 people and injured more than 160 others. The blast left the factory a smoldering ruin and …
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Storms, heavy rain forecast for tonight
LITTLE ROCK (AP) — Severe storms are expected today throughout Arkansas as a storm system and cold front gradually make their way through the state. The National Weather Service says isolated tornadoes and damaging winds are possible ahead of and along the cold front. The …
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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 …
