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Judi Munn learned long ago that her life need not be lived in some predictable series of boxes, confined to a social structure that defined success.It’s a lesson she learned as a Peace Corps …
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By Steve Watkins
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2/8/22
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Anyone who has Wayne Harlan’s contact information can shoot him a text or fire off a quick e-mail at 3:30 in the morning and have a reply by 4. That’s when Harlan’s day begins. …
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By Steve Watkins
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2/1/22
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It started with an educated idea and a printer on a coffee table.
Just two years later Zack Stewart is refining a business model that capitalizes on discovering needs through the power of social …
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By Steve Watkins
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12/21/21
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After breakfast most days, Wanda Lea Ramsey Stewart, 87, gets on her side-by-side and sees about the cattle on the Richwoods farm that has been in her family for more than 150 years.
On Aug. 9, …
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By Judy Bishop
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10/29/21
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Even if you don’t know Joe Stewart personally, odds are that if you’ve driven Highway 9 South you’ve admired his garden just outside the sharp curve at Sugar Hill Road. He’s …
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By Lori Freeze
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8/25/21
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Skip Thomas is living out a quiet, creative life these days in Mountain View.
Semi-retired now at 66, Thomas works only on “projects of the heart.” Some are funded, most are not. He …
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8/2/21
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Jim Qualls retired 21 years ago.
But he really means it this time.
The long-time volunteer head of the Stone County Resource Council will step aside from his duties as truck driver, plumber, …
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7/22/21
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Duane Porterfield had no idea about the set of events he’d put into motion when he took a dusty old instrument off the wall at The Dulcimer Shoppe in Mountain View this spring.
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7/22/21
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The boards are set. Pieces in place. Chairs set face-to-face. There won’t be a lot of popcorn or soda, just studious expressions and hesitant hands that reach for one piece, then draw back, …
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7/6/21
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Jean Speake knows how to make the most of retirement. She has traveled the world but also served her adopted community of Mountain View in 24 years of residence.
She and her husband Paul moved to …
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6/22/21
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No one really knows how friends Bonnie Cartwright and Merle Richardson got acquainted, but for them it’s enough to just say “we’ve known each other forever.” When one is age 95 and the other just three months younger, that’s a long time.
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By Lori Freeze
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6/15/21
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Larry Sutton will give up his seat on the school bus this fall for the first time in more than four decades.
Riding the bus until he graduated high school in 1975 and then driving the same route …
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By Edie Sutterfield
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6/8/21
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Keith Branscum of Fifty Six has been involved in farming virtually all his life, having started helping feed his family’s cattle, hogs and chickens at age 6.
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6/1/21
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When the game clock ticked zero giving the Rural Special Lady Rebels their first state basketball championship earlier this month, the spirit of an 89-year-old fan back in Fox was sitting on the bench with a great sense of satisfaction.
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By Steve Watkins
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3/30/21
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Joanie Howell has been hired as executive director of the Mountain View Area Chamber of Commerce and is busy acclimating herself to the new role and at the same time planning for the 58th Arkansas Folk Festival next month, one of the organization’s major events.
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3/17/21
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Daryl Pitts has snow in his blood. These days, you might even call him the snow man.
ARDOT’s area maintenance supervisor for Stone County is a second-generation road-crew worker who remembers the long hours his father would put in to past weather-related events like those county residents are now experiencing.
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By Steve Watkins
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2/16/21
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Elma Wilson of Timbo celebrated her 95th birthday Jan. 23. She celebrated at her home with her two sisters and brother and other close family. Instead of a traditional party, family and friends gave her a birthday parade, riding through the yard holding signs, with horns honking, and a siren blaring.
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2/9/21
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Bernice Beckham of Mountain View has experienced a lot in her 95 years. Born in 1926, she attended a one-room school in Happy Hollow before moving to Mountain View, where she graduated in 1944 after …
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By Lori Freeze
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1/27/21
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Rachel Reynolds has learned to let intuition be her guide.
She moved to Mountain View when she was 9, and spent lots of her spare time hanging out with crafters and musicians in the town square …
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8/21/20
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Many local residents have lamented the prevalence of negativity in interactions recently, so the Leader requested some examples of positive things resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ronda …
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7/15/20
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