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Decoration Day is becoming a lost tradition
Columns Comments May 16, 2013 3:43amIn Van Buren County, we mostly still call it Decoration Day, but elsewhere the final Monday is May is generally marked as Memorial Day.
Whatever the name, the day, which falls this year on...
Letters to Editor
Letters Comments May 09, 2013 2:33amDear Editor:
I would once again like to address the community about the situation at hand involving the Van Buren County Animal Control. Due to a literal “uprising” by a handful of members...
Letter to the editor
Letters Comments May 01, 2013 11:47pmDear Editor:
I wrote a letter a few weeks ago concerning a tree leaning over the roadway. That tree has been taken down and I am so proud to say that it got taken down before that recent...
There’s a hole in the bucket — and the overpass
Columns Comments May 01, 2013 11:49pmRemember that old folk song, “There’s a Hole in the Bucket”?
In the song, “Henry” tells his “dear Liza” about a hole in their bucket, and no matter how she asks him to fix it, he always...
Letters to the Editor
Letters Comments Apr 24, 2013 6:15pmDear Editor:
Previously, Councilman Jason Lynch stated that the city’s purchase of 10 iPad’s for a total cost of $7629.89 “will pay for itself with the savings in paper alone.”
In my...
Other Voices Worse than a Kreelon invasion
Columns Comments Apr 24, 2013 6:03pmIn the 1997 sci-fi comedy “Men in Black,” Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) tells his partner, Agent J (Will Smith), an important thing about humanity: “A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky,...
House Call
Columns Comments Apr 24, 2013 6:11pmQ: Is there a difference between being sensitive to gluten and having celiac disease?
A: Gluten is a substance found in cereal grains, especially wheat. It gives dough its elastic texture....
Editorial: Prescription drug abuse requires coordinated response
Editorials Comments Apr 24, 2013 6:01amEditor’s Note: This article is part of a series produced by the Southwest Times Record in Fort Smith. The entire series will be published online at www.vanburencountydem.com.
Last week, we...
Letters to the Editor
Letters Comments Apr 10, 2013 6:02amDear Editor:
I was perplexed to learn that our City Council had purchased 10 iPads for a total cost of $7,629.89. That one purchase accounts for over two-thirds of the city’s $12,500 annual...
Other Voices Pipeline furthers energy pipedream
Columns Comments Apr 10, 2013 6:02amWe’ve been down this road a hundred times. Even so, distorted facts gushing from lobbyists ensure we’ll be here again.
As has been widely reported, residents of the tiny town of Mayflower...