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McAlester city councilors took no action on the city’s mask mandate during their regular Tuesday night meeting, which means it remains in effect as is.

Sam Whiting January 21, 2021Updated: January 24, 2021, 11:53 am Gertrud Parker at the 2006 Museum of Craft and Folk Art gala in San Francisco. Photo: Parker family The San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum opened in 1982 in a small Richmond District home owned by its founder Gertrud Parker — a fiber artist with a belief that ceramics and wood carvings were as legitimate a form as fine art painting. Parker had no fear of failure, or anything else. As a teenager, she’d narrowly escaped the Nazis by train out of her native Vienna. She trusted her hunch about folk art and she w...

A smaller than usual group of city councilors agreed to pursue CARES Act funding that could benefit low-to-moderate income McAlester residents.

A Columbia County family has been honored for having two locations recognized as part of the 2020 Arkansas Century Farm program. The program, sponsored by the Arkansas Department of Agriculture, recognizes Arkansas farms of 10 acres or more owned by the same family for at least 100 years. Josh and Melissa Smith of Waldo received signs during a ceremony in Little Rock noting the historic nature of the S4 Cattle Company, 2230 Columbia 53 in Columbia County, and the Walthall Family Tree Farm in Ouachita County. Josh Smith said the original land on which S3 Cattle sits was first part of 280 acres...