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Editor’s Note: This is the second installment of the When Marion Played Sports series. Click the link to see all the articles in the series. By Jackie HuntSpecial to The Gazette From 1947 until 1959 Marion Industrial High School set among pine trees on the area that is now the Oliver Recreation Center and served as the education hub for …

Jerome and Avery Wilson brought their son, Hudson, by the UPSO to thank Sheriff Gates for the Friends of UPSO program. The Friends program is designed to minimize the chance of negative interactions between law enforcement officers and people with special needs.  By Luke Britt/Editor News reports of developmentally disabled people being harmed by police are always tragic, but for …

Brad Lowe, founder and owner of Porch Gliders For Veterans, LLC, sits with U.S. Marine Corps veteran Tammy Williams on the custom porch glider Lowe built for her. Lowe builds custom gliders for U.S. Military Veterans, engraving each with the servicemember’s name, branch of service and dates of service. Brad doesn’t charge servicemembers for his work and you can’t buy …

By Jackie HillSpecial to The Gazette There was a time beginning in the 1960s that Marion played sports. The sleepy town of less than 1000 where log and pulpwood trucks dominated the streets and locals made their way across the Arkansas state line to work at “the mill” did not have a theatre or bowling alley or any of those …