Flippin News

YELLVILLE - The jazz and rock band known as Spinrad is to perform at Music on the Square stage Saturday night in downtown Yellville.

Area fireworks displays this weekend include: Friday, July 3 23rd annual Flippin Fireworks Festival, which kicks off at noon.

Fireworks vendors along U.S. Highway 62 said business was booming Monday, but sales aren't expected to really pop until Wednesday with the approach of the Independence Day holiday Saturday.

North Central Arkansas Speedway was back in action Friday after a rain out last week.

A national association of marine manufacturers is calling for all hands on deck to help bring new, affordable financing to the boat industry.

Dr. James William Schmidt, 63, of Mountain Home passed away Thursday, June 18, 2009, at his residence.

Last year during the holidays, Don Drake helped out at a food bank and went home resolved to do more to address the hunger issue in his community.

Two area city officials will be speakers at this week's Arkansas Municipal League 75th Annual Convention at Hot Springs.

Mountain Home Band Boosters is seeking recipes for a cookbook, with a July 1 deadline for submissions.

Jared Cantrall has joined the staff of Northern Arkansas Telephone Company as an installation and repair technician.

FLIPPIN - Stephen and Elizabeth Monte of Flippin announce the birth of a daughter, Sophia Inez Monte, March 31, 2009, at North Arkansas Medical Center.

District Court for Baxter County was held May 26 and 28, 2009, before Judge Van Gearhart.

UPDATED 11:00 PM The Arkansas National Guard is crediting a talented pilot for saving the lives of two passengers and his own.

BUFFALO POINT - A pilot and two passengers waded and walked away from a helicopter crash here Thursday at Buffalo Point on the Buffalo River in Marion County, according to Marion County Sheriff Roger Vickers.

Officials with the National Park Service say an OH-58 helicopter flown by the Arkansas National Guard crashed into the Buffalo River in Marion County Thursday afternoon, seriously injuring one crew member.

Bull Shoals City Park was renamed Roy Danuser City Park by an ordinance adopted unanimously Thursday by the Bull Shoals City Council.

FAYETTEVILLE - Megan Matty from Mountain Home, a senior international relations major in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at University of Arkansas, recently was welcomed into the academic honorary society, Phi Beta Kappa.

Warren Haley's sister gave him a set of beautiful cloisonne vases back in the 1960's. He liked them so much he set out to learn about cloisonne, the ancient art of soddering wire to bronze, adding enamel and polishing many, many times.

A Flippin man involved in a motorcycle accident Thursday evening died Friday at St.

Teen girls from the local alternative school and high schools in Gainesville, Mo., Mountain Home, Norfork, Cotter, Flippin and Yellville spent Thursday morning on the Arkansas State University Mountain Home campus experiencing college as guests of the Schliemann Center for Women's Health Education.