SULPHUR SPRINGS -- Resident Joseph Cowan, 21, is enthused about his hometown of Sulphur Springs and is delving deep into his town's history, making finds that …

GENTRY -- Rains finally fell again in Eagle Observer territory, with just over an inch and a half of rain falling in Gentry overnight on Thursday, another 2.7 …

DECATUR -- It's raining, it's raining! People from all over the region celebrated July 27 as a day that brought relief from 100-degree plus temperatures and hu…

DECATUR -- It has been a long road for Mayor Bob Tharp, city council members, and rural residents, but finally the long-awaited Western Benton County Water Pro…

GRAVETTE -- The summer reading program at the Gravette Public Library is a resounding success. Karen Benson, library director, reported at the July meeting of …

GRAVETTE -- Members of the Gravette city council dispensed with business quickly at their regular meeting Thursday evening, July 28. In a matter of just a few …

DECATUR BARBECUE -- One of the most popular events of Decatur Barbecue since its conception in 1953 is the evening concert. The first entertainer for this even…

Kevin Upshaw and his band, One Night Stand, will open for Blane Howard during the 68th Decatur Barbecue concert on the Bill Montgomery USO stage at Veterans Pa…

FAYETTEVILLE -- After the Decatur Lady Bulldog junior high girls basketball team had a remarkable 28-2 run this summer, it was finally time for the boys to pro…

FAYETTEVILLE -- In their first outing this summer under new head basketball coach Austin Froderking, the Decatur Bulldogs boarded a bus bound for Fayetteville …

MULBERRY -- Summer camps, whether it be basketball, football or volleyball, are a coach's chance to see his or her teams in action in order to make changes to …

MULBERRY -- It was the culmination of hard work and determination July 21 as the Decatur junior high Lady Bulldogs traveled to Mulberry to participate in the Y…

MULBERRY -- The Gentry Lady Pioneer varsity and junior high volleyball teams took advantage of an opportunity to engage in a little real match time July 18 and…

With fall approaching, many Arkansans are looking to join a hunting club.

Days like these make me appreciate simple things, like standing chest-deep in a creek.

WESTSIDE -- Legacy Leavey did it big in Branson, Mo., for the softball nationals tournament on July 6-10.

Recently, LibertyUnderFire.com published: "No need for Article V Convention, just honor your oath." We argued that the Convention of States was a distortion of…

We suffer, grass dies and my close relative thinks we should eat cool food. That does not include steaming hot steak with butter and baked potatoes.

Did you know that bicycles have been around for over a century? It's true. What began as an idea for a creative way to get around has evolved into a smart piec…

Debbie Ford once appropriately said, "I think that any time of great pain is a time of transformation, a fertile time to plant new seeds."

Warning: First off this isn't going to be a 'cuff that I had planned for the first week in August. Maybe, if I don't have to change the ribbon on that old Smit…

We have all seen many kinds of clouds -- rain clouds, white puffy clouds, clouds with rainbows, even clouds of gnats and steam clouds from an old-fashioned loc…

It's 10 p.m., your jammies are on and you're settling in to watch the latest episode of your favorite show. What's missing? If you answered "a bag of barbecue …

A red clay roadbed over the new Wolf Creek Bridge in northern Decatur is ready to be compressed by a roller machine and the bulldozer (right) in preparation fo…

"But someone will say, 'How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?'" 1 Cor. 15:35 (read 35-58)

"Since then the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same, so that through death he might destroy him who had t…

"Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man to whom the LORD does not impute iniquity, and in whose spirit there i…

"Who will lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, or rather who is risen again, who …

"And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up, so that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have et…

"Today, if you will hear his voice, do not harden your heart, as at Meribah, and as in the day of Massah in the wilderness, when your fathers tested me, they p…

"O come, let us sing to the LORD. Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving and make a joyful …

There were present at that season some who told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And Jesus, answering, said to them,…