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5 Teams Advance to Regionals

Five local teams advance to this week’s regional tournament basketball action, with Mountain View senior boys and girls at Melbourne for Region 3A-2, and Rural Special senior boys and girls …
Sports

Lady Yellowjackets Fall To Dover In State Semi-final

EDITOR’S NOTE: this article is a different version than appears in print in the March 12 issue. More comments from the coach appear in print. This article contains more game detail. …

Lady Rebels Fall Short In Attempt To Upset West Side

Rural Special basketball coach Hanse Bowman said he doesn’t think anyone gave his team much of a chance against West Side in Saturday’s Class 1A State Tournament semi-final game at …
Events
Mountain View Area Chamber of Commerce held its second annual multi-day Christmas on the Square event Dec. 6-8. See photos and story in the Dec. 11 issue.
The 2024 Bean Fest and Arkansas Championship Outhouse Race drew the largest crowd in many years, perhaps ushered in by near-perfect weather and near-peak fall foliage. Those two aspects have rarely …
Feature Stories
Timbo basketball teams hosted Jasper for the Tigers home opener Friday night, with a big crowd in attendance for dedication of the facility as the Jim Anderson Gymnasium, recognizing the former …
Josephine Linker Hart accepted the Stone County Historical Society’s History Maker Award from Robbie Purdom in July. As the first from Stone County to have been elected to the Arkansas …
SCHOOLS
Spring Break Shifted

Mountain View School Board approved a change to the 2024-25 calendar last week, moving spring break one week later. Spring break week is set by the state and has been the third week of March for …