4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (860+ words) Dolly Parton died Aug. 25 at age 80, but the program she built in her father’s memory will keep mailing a free book every month to more than 1,000 Baxter County children. Since the Dolly Parton Imagination Library of Baxter County launched in…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (246+ words) Smash Mouth, a Motown revue and a touring circus company anchor the 15th season of the Arkansas State University-Mountain Home Performing Arts Series, which runs from September through March at the Coulter Performing Arts Center inside the Vada Sheid Community Development…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (293+ words) A three-hour songwriting workshop led by musician and writer Matt Powell will be held at the Donald W. Reynolds Library Serving Baxter County. The workshop covers form, rhyme, meter, melody and harmony, and lyric writing. It includes written materials, a lecture…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (942+ words) When Dezarae Manson asked a Marion County judge for a court-appointed attorney in July, she explained why in a single handwritten line. She had legal counsel, she wrote, and the Mansons were paying him. Now that she had left, she…...

2+ week, 9+ hour ago   (153+ words) Pattsy Smith was crowned Miss Hiram Shaddox 2026 at a pageant held for residents of Hiram Shaddox Health & Rehab in Mountain Home. Ellen Dearin was named runner-up and Billie Anne Brister was second runner-up. The contestants had been getting ready for…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (285+ words) The Vada Sheid Community Development Center is asking the Twin Lakes Area to tune in Thursday, when the woman it is named for joins the Arkansas Women’s Hall of Fame. Sheid, who died in 2008, was the first woman to serve…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (198+ words) Novelist Suzanne Woods Fisher will talk with readers about her National Parks Summers series at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 26, at the Donald W. Reynolds Library Serving Baxter County. She will join the event virtually. Her latest book, “Chase the Light,” is the second…...