Dove hunting, which kicked off Saturday September 2, officially opens the 2023-24 hunting seasons in Louisiana Hunters have had a tough time this summer. With the lingering drought and daily temperatures 100 degrees and above for days, deer hunters needed to be preparing food plots and getting stands set up and ready. Bow season kicks off in less than a …

Editor’s Note: Click the link to read the entire When Marion Played Sports series. By Jackie HuntSpecial 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 …

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 …