There are many stages in the process of convicting criminals and sentencing them to prison. Senate Bill 2, the “Truth in Sentencing and Parole Reform Act of 2023,” will change many of them.

The Van Buren Wellness Committee will host a potentially life-saving course at the Van Buren County Library on Feb. 7.

Body Beit Yeshuat Aish Tamid Messianic Synagogue of Quitman will host a Holocaust Remembrance Event at 2 p.m. Jan. 27 to be held at the Van Buren County Public Library. The public is invited to attend.

The Division of Arkansas Heritage will present 2022 Small Museum Grants to recipients on Wednesday, Jan. 25, at 11 a.m. at the division’s headquarters, located at 1100 North St. in Little Rock.

The following students are among more than 1,200 Harding University students included on the dean’s list for grades achieved during the fall 2022 semester.

Now available are applications for the Iris DeRow Memorial Scholarship, for a deserving graduating senior. For info see a member of ACRDC, or call 501-745-5278.

DeLane Story has company this week. Her son, David of Rocky Mount, Virginia, came for a week long visit. I know she was glad that he came.

Thirty senior citizens met at the Shirley Community Center on Thursday and had lunch together.

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I always enjoyed listening to my daddy and my uncles get together and share their stories. One time I heard them talking about rabbit dogs treeing rabbits in hollow logs and hollow trees.

Mondays

Met at the home of Danna Hensley.

The Clinton Yellowjackets ended the first half of the conference schedule with a win over Little Rock Hall on Tuesday at Yellowjacket Arena but began the second half of the round robin schedule with a road loss to Pulaski Robinson on Friday. In the Hall game the Jackets jumped out to first q…

No. 15 Arkansas saw a 10-point lead disappear and Vanderbilt score 63 second-half points to top the Hogs 85-78 on Saturday in Nashville's Memorial Gymnasium.

ServSafe has been the industry standard since 1919 in training millions of people how to receive, store, prepare, and serve food safely. Through the Cooperative Extension Service, we offer training and certifications for the ServSafe Food Handler, ServSafe Manager, and ServSafe Instructor &a…

During the cooler months in Arkansas, there are many opportunities for outdoor fun, such as hunting, camping and riding all-terrain vehicles. While enjoying these activities in the Natural State, it’s important to follow safety guidelines to avoid accidents and injuries.

The Cleburne County Quorum Court passed a binding resolution making it a “paper ballot” county, meaning future elections would be administered with hand marked paper ballots that are hand counted.

Elishia Duncan of Clinton has earned the designation of Certified Municipal Clerk (CMC), which is awarded by the International Institute of Municipal Clerks (IIMC), Inc.

The All Kids Bike Kindergarten Learn-to-Ride program is a 24-fleet of bikes, pedal conversion kits, helmets, one teacher instruction bike and certified curriculum teacher training, which is everything needed to teach kids how to progress from balance to riding a bike in eight lessons at Sout…

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Mondays

Jimmy and I attended the basketball games at Shirley on Tuesday night the senior girls lost to Rural Special 45 to 55. The senior boys won their game 53 to 37. We enjoyed being there.

Marva and R G Ward attended a birthday party for their great grandson, Parker Foster. His grandparents, Sindee and David Morse, had a taco supper for him.

I wonder how much damage the weed and tree poison is doing to us and has done to us and our environment. We are exposed to it in public and private use, sometimes we know it and sometimes we don’t.

Wilson Ray Eubanks, 87, of Clinton, Arkansas, departed from this world on Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023. He was born Feb. 4, 1935, in Lawton, Oklahoma, to the late Woodrow Eubanks and Murvelee Bowling-Bradley. Ray was a hardworking man and a carpenter by trade for many years; he also enjoyed attendin…

Domestic Incorporations

Van Gogh once said: “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”

The 2023 legislative session got off to a smooth start. The full Senate confirmed the governor’s secretarial nominations, and Senate committees got their initial organizational meetings out of the way.

A former local district court judge in Arkansas was arrested Jan. 5 in Little Rock on criminal charges related to his alleged solicitation of sex in exchange for agreeing to take action on a criminal case pending before his court.