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By Jim Shere At first it was mostly the men— the padres and their soldiers— who came to claim the land and all its people for Mexico, which had just won its war of independence from Spain. And then the other men came with their vaqueros to claim the land as theirs, pioneers filling the valley with vast cattle ranches. And then in time the settlers, men and women, arrived …

I wrote last year about a visit to the remote area of southeast Arkansas where the Arkansas and White rivers empty into the Mississippi River. It's a land unlike anywhere else in our state. To the east, there's the Mighty Mississippi. To the west, there are the tangled remnants of what once was known as the Big Woods, now part of the White River National Wildlife Refuge.

I wrote last year about a visit to the remote area of southeast Arkansas where the Arkansas and White rivers empty into the Mississippi River. It's a land unlike anywhere else in our state. To the east, there's the Mighty Mississippi. To the west, there are the tangled remnants of what once was known as the Big Woods, now part of the White River National Wildlife Refuge.

Use the Arrows < > above to go through the gallery In this Trip Down Memory Lane we dip into the Longford Leader archives from January 2012 and bring you ...

Go back in time to 1970 to the 49ers playoff victory over the Minnesota Vikings.

Businesses across Longford are facing staffing shortages as more and more locals test positive for Covid-19 or are isolating due to being close contacts.

The post-Christmas return to work has been dealt another blow this evening following confirmation that two more local hospitality businesses have been impacted&...

As more and more Longford people contract the Omicron variant of Covid-19, businesses are shutting their doors due to staff members testing positive. Ballymahon...

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The Circle of Discipline camp in Barnum, about two hours north of the Twin Cities in a town of 649 people, takes all the distractions out for its fighters.