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When Marion played sports

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 …

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McCallums, Police Jury agree to do nothing

By Luke Britt/Editor Call it a field of dreams. Where most people saw a field of tall grass and weeds, Judge Jay McCallum and wife, Deanna, saw a native plant habitat teeming with pollinating insects and worthy of something more than the sharp end of a mower blade. “We noticed a lot of butterflies and bumble bees in that field …

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