Mammoth Spring News

The Web site for the Mammoth Spring Chamber of Commerce has been updated and is up and running, according to Chamber President Glynda Pryor.

The Salem Quorum Court appointed a new member of both the Fulton County Hospital Board and the Fulton County Library Board last week, although not without some controversy.

Fulton County youngsters are being encouraged to "Be Creative" this summer at their area libraries.

The first holiday weekend of the summer season proved to be an expensive one for almost 50 people celebrating with a little too much enthusiasm.

The Mammoth Spring School District will receive a total of $609,434 from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009.

More than 375 Lawrence County fifth and sixth grade students met on April 28 in the Southerland-Mabee Center at Williams Baptist College in Walnut Ridge for the Reach Out Now National Teach-In Initiative.

After taking a first-day lead of over 5 pounds, the St. Louis team of Jim and David Schnable pulled even further away from the field with another great catch on day two to win the BassCat Owner's Invitational by over 6 pounds Friday.

After waiting, hoping and speculating for several weeks, area schools now know how much of the federal stimulus money will be coming to their school districts.

April is just about gone, isn't it? That's okay. There are so many exciting things happening this time of year.

MAMMOTH SPRING Last year's flood inundated the Jim Hinkle fish hatchery outside Mammoth Spring.

Mammoth Spring Schools have been placed on a fiscal distress list by the Arkansas Board of Education.

The Arkansas Board of Education on Monday classified the Mammoth Spring, Mansfield and Osceola school districts as being in a oefiscal distressa because of rapidly declining financial balances in each of the past two school years.

There are several who still walk out the front door each morning to be greeted by the tangled mess of branches sitting by the road and they would like to know when that mess will disappear.

Three Arkansas school districts have been placed on the list of those in fiscal distress and now face consolidation or annexation in two years.

LITTLE ROCK a ' The state Board of Education voted today to place three school districts on the list of districts in fiscal distress.

Money from President Barack Obama's stimulus plan will soon come to the rescue of Arkansas public schools that are cutting back during these rough economic times.

Take a look back in history through back issues of The Baxter Bulletin: 100 years ago March 26, 1909 Sam Mankins of Cotter, deputy sheriff of Baxter County, captured two safe blowers who broke in here on the night of Dec.

The Mammoth Spring National Fish Hatchery will soon be the site of a $3 million Visitor and Environmental Education Center.

The Izard County Lady Cougars took a pair of wins from the Mammoth Spring Lady Bears Tuesday at the Cougar Sports Complex.

The Viola Longhorns are 2-0 on the high school baseball season after Jacob Payne twirled a no-hitter in a 6-0 win over the Salem Greyhounds.