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The Searcy County Historical Society will meet at 7 pm, Friday, May 24, at the First Christian Church in Marshall. The topic will be The Civil War Peace Society in Books. The Civil War Peace Society in north Arkansas has been the subject of books from 1863 to 2023. James Johnston, author of “Mountain Feds: Arkansas Unionists and the Peace Society,” a splendid history and an exhaustive in-depth treatment of the subject, will give a brief survey of the Peace Society in Searcy County, followed by a presentation of books whose topic was the Peace Society.

Are you ready to improve your health? Have you decided it is time to start exercising? The Extension Get Fit program from the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service can help! • Meet for an hour twice a week! Tuesday and Thursday at Searcy County Senior Center 9:30a.m. • Focuses on increasing strength, flexibility, and balance-Must be 18 years or older to participate • ONLY $20 for the whole year.

(StatePoint) May is Save Your Tooth Month, an annual celebration of tooth-saving procedures and the endodontists responsible for saving teeth. It’s also an important reminder that while having a tooth pulled may seem like the easiest option when you have tooth pain from an infection or disease, saving your natural teeth is best.

Last Wednesday night Kathy came home from Tennessee. It hailed at my house for a short time.

Good morning and Happy Mother’s Day! Brit Johnson is sharing their abundance of eggs. Here is the information: FREE EGGS! Anyone need some eggs? I’m being overran and need to get rid of some extra.

The rains held off today so got lots of flowers planted. Lifts one’s spirits to plant and see how pretty everything will look. The seeds are coming up and I don’t jinx my okra, but it’s coming up gangbusters. Hope to have all I need and all my friends and neighbors can use. Course for the last 3 years could have enjoyed the okra. Better not happen again, I’ll be cranky plus.

(StatePoint) The health care system can feel uncoordinated and costly. One in 10 U.S. adults ration medication because they can’t afford their prescriptions, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In fact, the more a patient must pay at the counter, the more likely they are to abandon their treatment. Other Americans simply lack convenient access to primary care providers and pharmacies, and go undertreated as a result.

Billie Reed’s RV Park has an opening for a full time RV with water, electric, and septic with a 30 AMP hookup. If interested call Billie at 870-504-8294.

A total of 328 students have been named to the Dean’s List at North Arkansas College for the 2024 spring semester. That number includes 203 students who were named to the Dean’s List for full-time students and 125 students who made the Dean’s List for parttime students.

Hello to all of you Marshall Mountain Wave readers and greetings from the Jewel of the Ozarks, Leslie, Arkansas. We have had some quite pleasant weather this past week. Although very rainy and wet the temperatures have been cool in the mornings and warming up to around the 70s in the afternoon. It does however get a little muggy where it feels about 10 degrees hotter than the actual temperature, something to get used to Summer is coming. Until then I am going to enjoy this cool rainy weather.