Opinion

Empowering Local Schools

National Lawmakers Put Education Authority Back in State HandsBy Chris Lesher, Public Information OfficerChris.Lesher@senate.ar.govArkansas will now have broader authority to shape its own education policies…

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Obituaries

News

Will We Stop Springing Forward and Falling Back?

US House Passes Bipartisan Bill to Make Daylight Saving Time PermanentBy Amelia Twyman of the Arkansas Advocatearkansasadvocate.comWASHINGTON — The U.S. House voted Tuesday, July 14 to make daylight saving time permanent nationwide in a bipartisan move that pushes the country one step closer to ending the long-contested ritual of semiannual clock changes. The House passed…

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Community

Quorum Court Continues Consideration of Private Liquor License

Photo submitted by Ashley County Courthouse A corrected version of the Justices of the Peace district map for Ashley County as submitted by the Ashley County Clerk of Court. A prior map printed in the Ashley News Observer generated by AI did not correctly show the districts or the JPs who serve them. The Ashley…

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Sports

    Lifestyle

    American by Choice

    Photo submitted At an all-American beach vacation, naturalized American citizen Norma Mondragon smiles while surrounded by her husband, children and grandchild. The Mondragon parents both…

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