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Officers respond to school shooter in training exercise
GRAVETTE -- Armed officers moved quickly past motionless victims in the halls of Gravette High School on Tuesday toward the sounds of gunfire in the locker room of the practice gym. Within two minutes, a single, heavily-armed gunman was subdued and placed under arrest by the officers during training exercises conducted at the school in the absence of students, during spring break.
by Randy Moll
Community News
Groundbreaking held for school building projects
GRAVETTE -- Groundbreaking was held at 10 a.m. Friday morning, March 15, for the new Gravette High School gymnasium and other building projects. A good crowd attended the event at the gymnasium site despite brisk winds which toppled the podium shortly after the ceremony ended.
by Susan Holland
Gravette Upper Elementary receives Toolbox Education grant
GRAVETTE -- Gravette Upper Elementary School received a Lowe's Toolbox for Education Grant to assist students in putting on a news show.
by STAFF REPORTS
Hometown Events
Gentry Public Library has activities planned during Spring Break. On Wednesday, March 20, and Friday, March 22, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., children, grades K-6, are invited to create their own superhero costumes, have snacks, and read the library's own Curiositeam Comic Book. Please register your children by calling the Library at 479-736-2054. And, every Thursday from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., the GPL Homeschoolers group meets for crafts, snacks and reading. Contact the library for more information at 479-736-2054.
by STAFF REPORTS
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School and Sports
VOTE: Gravette, Decatur and Gentry players of the week
Vote for Decatur's Destiny Mejia, Gentry's Makenna Ward or Gravette's Gabbi Scott as this week's Spring Sports Player of the Week.
Farmington Lady Cardinals Edge Lady Lions, 3-2
FARMINGTON -- Paige Anderson's 2-out, 2-run homer in the top of the fourth inning lifted Farmington to a 3-2 edge over Gravette in the semifinal of the Farmington Invitational Softball Tournament Saturday.
by MARK HUMPHREY Special to the Eagle-Observer
Gentry wrestlers place at state tournament in Little Rock
GENTRY -- Eight of Gentry High School's 11 wrestlers placed in the state tournament Feb. 22-23 at the Stephens Center Arena at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock.
by STAFF REPORTS
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Opinion
I will be walking in tall cotton when the weather finally knows it is spring!
I would like to change some things in our little world, like setting time changes and so forth. I'd never go back to the real one because I would always like a few more daylight hours. I would bring up to the lawmakers the fact that it is sure hard to find black cattle in the dark at 6 p.m., even if the day is not over.
by BILL
Missteps and wrong turns help us learn
I have dreams about calves and horses, and then the big kicker was hearing that my prize bull had become a steer, but not to worry; we had one heifer calf out of him! My close relative shook me awake because I was moaning and carrying on something awful. She told me to get on up and make coffee; maybe she could get in a cat nap! This perfect life ain't always perfect.
by BILL
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Religion
Do we eat of the children's crumbs?
Then Jesus went out from there and departed to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And behold, a woman of Canaan came from that region and cried out to Him, saying, "Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David! My daughter is severely demon- possessed." But He answered her not a word. And His disciples came and urged Him, saying, "Send her away, for she cries out after us." But He answered and said, "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." Then she came and worshiped Him, saying, "Lord, help me!" But He answered and said, "It is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the little dogs." And she said, "Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters' table." Then Jesus answered and said to her, "O woman, great is your faith! Let it be to you as you desire." And her daughter was healed from that very hour. Matthew 15:21-28
by Randy Moll
'O wretched man that I am!'
"For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do." Romans 7:15 Some would have us believe that, when we become Christians, all our struggles in life go away. But, actually, the opposite is true.
by Randy Moll
We are in the Lenten season; do you observe it?
The Lenten season began last week on Ash Wednesday and continues until Easter. Lent is 40 days long, corresponding to the 40 days Jesus spent in the wilderness, but extends over a period of 46 days because Sundays are not counted as part of the traditional Lenten season.
by Randy Moll
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