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Dale Harpenau quickly grew to love Fort Smith. He had to; he had no other choice.

I found a cardboard box sitting in my home library. Its weathered sides told me itd been around a while, and a label on top read, "Hands Off!"

The soaring cost of living has bolstered the need for better mental health services in north Norfolk, campaigners say. 

On Sept. 3, 2006, 8,307 people jammed the stands for the Arkansas Travelers last game in Ray Winder Field. The minor league baseball team was headed to a new home in North Little Rock, Dickey-Stephens Park.

Residents of a North Walsham care home now have an outdoor space to sit and relax thanks to the hard work of a community shed group.

Lawrence-Dumont Stadium in Wichita badly needed repairs, and the Wichita Wranglers were struggling with low attendance. Bob Rich Jr., who had owned the team for 18 years, knew he had to make a change.

Ray Winder had a plan. After attracting fewer than 68,000 fans during a 77-game home schedule in 1958, the Travelers professional baseball club left Little Rock and moved to Shreveport for the 1959 season. In 1960, Winder formed the Arkansas Travelers Baseball Club Inc. and led a public stock drive to buy the New Orleans Pelicans franchise.

Baseball gloves were as small as oven mitts and Theodore Roosevelt was U.S. president when the Little Rock Travelers posed for photographs now displayed at Dickey-Stephens Park in North Little Rock.

Published: 8:17 AM April 18, 2021    Mens shed members gathered at the Grange care home on Saturday to watch the official ribbon-cutting by local MP Duncan Baker. - Credit: Noah Vickers A group combatting social isolation among men in a Norfolk town opened its new meeting space with a ribbon-cutting ceremony in glorious sunshine.  Members of the North Walsham Men’s Shed gathered on the grounds of the town’s Grange care home on Saturday afternoon.  Mens shed members gathered at the Grang...

Ray Winder, chairman of the North Walsham Mens Shed. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY - Credit: Copyright: Archant 2020 A mens shed finally has a home of its own after spending three years in a cramped and cold pub back room. North Walsham Mens Shed will open in its own premises on the grounds of The Grange care home at 2.30pm on Saturday April 17. For three years the group met in the backroom of the White Swan, where participants had to wrap up warm during winter, however the agreement came to an end w...