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ADVERTISEMENT Delta region gets new club leader from White Hall by Deborah Horn Special to The Commercial | Today at 2:57 a.m. New Horizons Extension Homemakers Club members work to raise money during the grand opening of the Saracen Landing Farmers Market. From left, they are, Sarah Gwin of White Hall, Kimberly Edwards of Redfield, Sophia Gwin of White Hall and Dot Dunn Hart, the new Delta District director for the Arkansas Extension Homemakers Council. (Special to The Commercial/Deborah Horn)...

Harvey County Fair comes out of the gates with rodeo The Kansan The evening entertainment at the Harvey County Free Fair will come out of the gates with a fair tradition July 30 — the annual Newton Saddle Club Rodeo will be in the Newton Saddle Club Area.  An event started in the late 1960s, it was one of few fair events that was able to be run in 2020 as COVID-19 restrictions led to the cancellation of most large public events.  "There were a lot of rodeos that were canceled last year," sa...

UMD awarded grant to develop an integrated hypertension management program for older adults To address the significant health burden of hypertension (characterized by consistently high blood pressure), the University of Maryland (UMD) was recently awarded a grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) to develop, test, and deliver an integrated hypertension management program for older adults. The program takes the existing DASH (...

Close Peaster High School’s Hadley Felts, Emily Galloway, Daisy Garcia, Macy Pennington and Hayley Rawlings  represented the state of Texas and their school at the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America’s National Leadership Conference June 27-July 2, in Nashville, Tennessee.  Special to the Weatherford Democrat featured Special to the Weatherford Democrat Jul 22, 2021 16 hrs ago Peaster High School’s Hadley Felts, Emily...

UW looks to eliminate 75 staff, close departments under plan to slash $13M/yr in expenses By Brendan LaChance on July 13, 2021 University of Wyoming UW College of Business Building / COE Library (Brendan LaChance, Oil City) CASPER, Wyo. — The University of Wyoming Board of Trustees will be considering a proposal that aims to slash over $13 million in annual expenditures, UW announced Tuesday. That could mean eliminating up to 75 faculty and other staff positions, including up to ten departm...

FCS / General project winners honored in Clinton County These two photos show youths who won at least one first-place award at the Family & Consumer Sciences / General Awards event in the Peterson Building. The photo with fewer winners pictured is of the first-place winners in the foods and cooking category, while the other photo is of the winners in other categories. Gary Huffenberger | News Journal These two photos show youths who won at least one first-place award at the Family & Consumer ...

By ALLISON BROPHY CHAMPION CULPEPER STAR–EXPONENT A Lignum hemp farmer will host the Virginia Cannabis Conference on Aug. 28 at Culpeper County’s own legal moonshine distillery, Belmont Farms. Mike Sauer of Honey Hill Hemp in Culpeper is organizing the daylong, 21-and-older ticketed event to recognize the state law that makes recreational use of marijuana legal in Virginia, letting adults possess an ounce of it and grow up to four of their own plants. The event will run fr...

Tarletons Tarpley honored at NACTA Conference TSU Newsroom STEPHENVILLE — Tarleton State University’s Dr. Rudy Tarpley was honored Thursday at the annual conference of North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture with the organization’s Educator Award. Tarpley, the Graduate Coordinator in the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Sciences, has been part of the Tarleton faculty since 2010. “Being recognized at the national level is a great honor,” he said. “However, the bes...

Elaine Claire Soukup, 78, passed away on Monday, May 31, 2021 at the Oak Ridge Manor in Brownwood, Texas. Elaine was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of the late Clarence and Norma (Bartos) Soukup of Dillonvale, Ohio. Elaine graduated from Dillonvale High School and Kent State University. She began her career teaching home economics in the Cadiz and Indian Creek School Districts in Ohio. She loved teaching young people how to cook, sew, and manage their money, plus many of the other skills...

Mountain Home students earning Principles of Banking and Today's Teller certificates from the Arkansas Bankers Association are: (first row, from left) Reagan