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LITTLE ROCK, AR (04/26/2023)-- Local students were nominated to represent their community and school at Arkansas Boys State 2023, an immersive leadership and civic engagement experience sponsored by the American Legion.

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On Tuesday, May 16, 2023, the Hampton High School Sophomores participated in the “Get Real, Here’s the Deal” activity presented by the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service in Calhoun County. Get Real is a hands-on experiential simulation that gives youth the opportunity to experience their future in a financial decisionmaking mode. Participants are encouraged to make wise financial lifestyle choices like those that adults face each month based on their family size and affordability. The simulation included preparation day, simulation day and a follow up day.

State Capitol Week in Review, May 12, 2023

The Biden Administration’s failure to enforce our border laws has led to an unprecedented national security, ecological, and humanitarian crisis at our border. Since President Biden took office, there have been over 5 million illegal crossings along the southern border, and over 14,000 pounds of fentanyl have been seized coming across the border – that’s enough to kill the entire U.S. population ten times. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has lost operational control of the southern border – and with extraordinary amounts of narcotics flowing into our communities, drug overdose deaths are now over 100,000 per year, with fentanyl poisoning accounting for a vast majority of those deaths.

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81, of Thornton died Friday May 12, 2023 at Jefferson Regional Medical Center in Pine Bluff. Born November 16, 1941 at Louann, she was the daughter of the late Nelson Cox and Elsie Nichols Cox.

103 of Hampton died Tuesday May 9, 2023 at his home. Born March 27, 1920, he was a son of the late C.W. Ables and Nancy Avant Ables.

In October 1854 (the actual date is not recorded in the original minutes of the Session) Rev. A. J. Haynes, a member of good standing in Bartholomew Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and Elders John Bridges and Daniel Williams from the White Spring congregation, met with a group of people, including those from Cane Creek Church who desired to establish a new church near the present city of Hampton. At that meeting Mount Pleasant Cumberland Presbyterian Church was organized under the care of Bartholomew Presbytery. The following people were received as charter members of the new church, Nancy Simpson Newton, Jeremiah (first sheriff of Calhoun County) and Sarah “Sallie” Puckett Hollis, Mary Bridges, Harriett Bridges (daughter of Jeremiah Hollis and daughter-in-law of Mary Bridges), Margaret Rowen, Margaret Riggs, James Harvey “JH” and Mary Bradford Means, Cyrus C. Silliman, and John Silliman (son of Cyrus), “by experience”.

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library puts books into the hands and hearts of children across the world, partnering with local communities to provide a hand-selected, age-appropriate, highquality book each month to registered children from birth to age five. Recent data shows that our county affiliate of the Arkansas Imagination Library has enrolled 74% of the eligible children in our county, putting us in fifth place statewide! In a recent study published through the University of Central Arkansas, researchers found that Arkansas students enrolled in the program are 24% less likely to repeat kindergarten and 28% less likely to repeat third grade (2021). Calhoun County Imagination Library mails free books to children until they turn five, no matter their family’s income. Having more books at home has a direct, proven positive impact on learning, and this program is available for free to all children in Calhoun County! There are just over 50 eligible children who aren’t registered for the program - if you know one of them, encourage them to sign up for this great program! If you’re interested in helping to sponsor the program, it costs $26 to sponsor one child for one year, or $130 to sponsor a child for all 5 years of eligibility (that’s 60 books!). For more information about how to sign up a child or become a sponsor, visit www.calcolibrary.com/aril/ or contact the library at (870)798-4492.

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