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Prairie Grove senior Amery Phillips plays keyboard and sings "Godspeed" on May 20 during the graduation ceremony at Tiger Stadium in Prairie Grove.

The Prairie Grove City Council had a tough decision to make at its April 17 meeting — selecting a new council member out of six candidates who submitted resumes and spoke before the council.

PRAIRIE GROVE -- John Wyatt is taking a break from his substitute teaching duties, reading a newspaper with a cup of coffee while sitting in the Prairie Grove High School library.

The roar of cannons and musketry will once again disturb the peaceful Prairie Grove ridge and valley on Saturday and Sunday at Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park.

A good, old-fashioned whodunit — with lots of humor — takes the stage this weekend at the Farmington High School Performing Arts Center.

Fall brings to mind apples and apples bring to mind the Arkansas Apple Festival on Lincoln Square.

The Prairie Grove School District will have three school resource officers this year, and officer Jacob Rollins has moved from the patrol division to serve as the newest one.

"Our goal this year was to emphasize a fuller picture of what it means to be an American. There will be everything from traditional patriotic music -- like the National Anthem and [John Phillip] Sousa's 'The Stars and Stripes Forever' -- all the way to more contemplative works like Aaron Copland's 'Fanfare for the Common Man,'" Paul Haas says.

Several residents in Valley View subdivision addressed Farmington City Council members recently asking for help with flooding in their houses during major rain events.

The Prairie Grove Fire Department has responded to more than 1,000 calls per year since 2016 and responds to more calls than any other fire department in western Washington County, according to the department’s leader.