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Small Arkansas town has place in Hemingway history
The quail rose out of the cornfields and briars of northeast Arkansas, giving the young writer just enough time to swing his shotgun up like a pitchfork toward their flight.
Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum hosts creative writing retreat
"From the veranda of the Pfeiffer house, where Patrick and Gregory played, Pauline glanced around the tree-covered lawn." So begins the June 2009 Hemingway-Pfeiffer Creative Writing Retreat anthology, Outside the Lines, penned June 8-12 at the Hemingway Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center in Piggott.
Holding out: Williams looking for kidney donor
Jessica Weekley/Herald-Leader Siloam Springs resident Jackie Williams is on two donor waiting lists.
Yang Begins as New Executive Director
NCTM welcomes Kichoon Yang as its new Executive Director.A Yang brings diverse educational experiences to NCTM, which will complement the work of the Council.
Could Changes in Copyright Law be Newspapers' Savior?
CHICAGO With individual newspapers and professional associations chasing after all manner of notions of how to build a business model that successfully bridges the transition from print to digital, a seemingly simple idea is taking hold among some legal thinkers -- rewriting copyright law.
School cleaners gather at Jonesboro, Ark., for custodian institute
The days of school janitors pushing their brooms up and down the hallway after the kids leave for the day are apparently long gone.
Festivalgoers to get first peek at Sheid Center
The public is invited to tour the new Vada Sheid Community Development Center on Arkansas State University Mountain Home campus 2-4 p.m. Saturday as part of the Red, White & Blue Festival.
Come out and celebrate Red, White & Blue
It's a weekend to celebrate in Mountain Home as the Red, White & Blue Festival marks its 10th year.
Cabinet's Solis tells of 'green' job grants
U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis announced in Memphis on Wednesday $500 million in grants available to prepare workers for "green" jobs.
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Business ethics expert to chair Department of Accounting
DENTON , Texas a ' Business ethics expert Don Finn will take the helm of the University of North Texas' Department of Accounting on July 1 . Finn is currently the Garrison/Wilson Chair in Accounting and the director of the accounting doctoral program at the University of Arkansas, where he has worked since 2003.
Meet your neighbors: 20 questions with John Kenney
Editor's note: The Bulletin would like to help our readers get to know their neighbors through our new Monday feature: Meet Your Neighbors.
OTC names new dean of general education
Ozarks Technical Community College has named Reita K. Gorman dean of general education, an OTC news release said.
Four Accused of Cheating on Teacher License Exam
Arkansas State University police say four people are accused of impersonating students when taking a teacher licensing exam, including a 60-year-old whose ID said he was 29.
Model-T featured in 1958 ASU yearbook to return for 50th anniversary
Ken Swan thought he had died and gone to Heaven when he saw a dozen beautiful sorority girls from Arkansas State University hanging around his 1922 Model-T Ford one day after class in 1958.
New ASU Program Offers 5-day Workshop, Stipend
Jonesboro: A new program at Arkansas State University-Jonesboro will offer qualified undergraduate students an unprecedented opportunity to "Try Out the Classroom," in a five-day summer workshop.
New dental hygiene program starts in August at ASUMH
'We have a desperate need.' That's what local dentists told Arkansas State University Mountain Home administrators in a needs assessment the university conducted after students expressed continued interest in a local dental hygiene program.
Many new initiatives are under way at the Department of Languages in the Arkansas State University College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Darryl S. Inaba, who has more than 40 years of experience in the chemical dependency treatment field, has joined the staff of Addictions Recovery Center.
ASU Equine Center Offers Horse Camps for Youth
A young equestrian leads her horse during a previous session of ASU Equine Center Horse Camp.
Palmer retires after 33 years of teaching
Dereta Palmer has been in the third grade for 33 years. This is not due to any difficulty she faced with the class work; rather it comes from her knowledge of the subject matter, as she has spent all of her years as a public school educator instructing third grade students.