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Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ushered in two significant wins for American taxpayers and students.

Dixie Ann Hewell Grim, 86 of Hampton died July 4, 2023 at Timberlane Nursing Home in El Dorado while under hospice care with her twin daughters by her side. Born June 17, 1937 in Eureka Springs, she was the daughter of the late Pauline Wilson and Dallas Hewell.

The library’s Summer Reading Program continues for one more week! On Friday at 2 pm, we will all be partaking in some kindergartenlevel snacks, crafts, and silliness, and next Wednesday is our communitywide art project. We are so grateful to the parents and grandparents who have sent snacks for the kids and helped out at the programs. Our new Makerspace has had some visitors lately too; we have helped with a festival vendor’s label printer and provided space for artists to work. Libraries can do so much more than books (though we definitely have plenty of new books, too)!

U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman

Was talking with someone about Mr. J.T. McRae this evening and these thoughts surfaced: 1962 -at the age of 13, one Friday, he visited in our home and HE TOLD ME to memorize the poem ’Creation’ by James Weldon Johnson for Sunday evening BTU.

Arkansas Volunteer Fire Departments Receive Wildland Fire Suppression Kits from Arkansas Department of Agriculture’s Forestry Division

Little Rock, Ark. – As high temperatures continue in the coming weeks, the Arkansas Department of Health encourages people to practice heat safety.

“Oops! I totally forgot about dinner!” It happens. Maybe you didn’t actually forget about dinner, but your hectic, nonstop day happened. Suddenly it’s 6:00 and the family is looking to you because they’re starving. What’s for dinner?

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The Calhoun County Master Gardener organization has been busy this year with a new beautification project at the Administration Building

This week marked one year since the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The ruling rectified its mistaken 1973 decision by reversing Roe v. Wade and sent the issue of abortion back to state legislators, where it belongs.

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