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How to Ensure Your Child’s Screen Time is Educational and Meaningful

(StatePoint) Did you know that your child’s screen time can be educational, thought-provoking and meaningful? Here’s how to ensure that happens: • Make educational screen time fun: The best learning apps for kids these days don’t just cover traditional school subjects, they also add creativity, problem-solving and social-emotional skills into the mix. Such tools will help lay the groundwork for a lifelong love of learning.

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Park Elementary 3rd Nine Weeks Honor Roll

Third Grade All A’s Elena Guthrie Easton Jett Tripp Williams A’s and B’s Jace Ermert Cannon Ervin Elizabeth Gaines Braxton Godwin Trestin Hollis Brayden Jones Samuel Jolly Aurora Martinez Case McDonald Kade McKinney Jase Morrow Hadley Murray Phoebe Quador Gracie Smith Charlie Swint Axel Walker Talli Wright Brody Whitley Fourth Grade All A’s Lillian Allen Landon Bounds Payton Buckhanan Haylee Fairchild Paisley Garver Haddie Hudson Jordan Lawrence Adalynn Moser Lyman Parks Reid Varvil Sawyer Wright Coraline Yancey A’s and B’s Kohner Burns Madison Chavez Jayde Cole Nathan Dilks Kylie George Gannon Gleghorn Delila Graham Gracie Janes Sophia McCulley Kadence Moore Piper Plemons Cali Sears-Pallett Seraphiel Ortiz Mabri Thompson Bryson Turner Kaleb White Carley Wiles Elizabeth Wolner Chase Woods .

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Clay County Democrats plan for future and voter registration

The Democratic Party of Clay County met Thursday at the Los Compadre Restaurant in Piggott. After a review of all the candidates who have registered to run in the upcoming Clay County elections they moved on to future plans. The topmost priority of this group is voter registration. They will be reaching out to as many people as possible to register legal citizens to vote.

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Teach Arkansas Initiative Addresses Teacher Shortage With Tools to Guide Arkansans to the Classroom

LITTLE ROCK — Many Arkansas schools are facing severe teacher shortages that impact their ability to provide a high-quality education to every student. To encourage more Arkansans to enter the teaching profession and highlight various pathways and financial incentives to become a teacher, the Arkansas Department of Education’s Division of Elementary and Secondary Education and Forward Arkansas, a statewide education nonprofit, have rebranded and launched the Teach Arkansas campaign.

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A-State Moves to Gold Level as Military Friendly School

JONESBORO –Arkansas State University has been designated as a Military Friendly® School for 2022- 23, and has achieved the Gold-level ranking for the first time. Arkansas State also marks its 13th ranking by the Military Friendly® Schools list, which sets the standard for higher education institutions to provide the best opportunities for veterans and their spouses.

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Old Habits

I don’t remember the exact year I started watching “The Young and the Restless “, but it must have been about 1980. In other words, for over four decades I have virtually been addicted to a soap. At that time there were probably ten airing on the three major networks, but I limited myself to one.

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