Districts look at options to make up days.

Last week we were treated to a diatribe on the failings of The Supreme Court, partisan Republicans, big bad banks, unfaithful Democrats and a host of others that caused 2009 to be a year to forget.

I have been getting some phone calls in reference to car seats and when can their children not be required to be in one.

The snow and ice from Friday is still hanging around, prompting a few more closures for Tuesday.

The new list is for people with last names beginning with U-Z.

The ice and snow have caused some closing for Monday.

Arkansas’ tobacco control policies earned mixed grades, with low marks for cigarette tax and average marks for tobacco control spending and cessation coverage in the American Lung Association’s State of Tobacco Control 2009 report released recently.

The Emergency Food and Shelter Local Board has announced that Cleburne County has been chosen to receive $11,393 to supplement emergency food and shelter programs in the area.

William Carl Garner added another prestigious award to his long list of accomplishments Tuesday night when he was named to the Heber Springs Area Chamber of Commerce’s Hall of Honor.

Scholarship to help special veterans.

Conservatives who complain about “liberal activist judges,” will undoubtedly want to hold a tea party to protest the decision last week of a majority of the United States Supreme Court in a case entitled “Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.”

The Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department was out early Friday putting down sand and using a snowplow to help clear roadways.

Governor Beebe declared a State of Emergency Friday morning in response to the ice and snow already in Arkansas and expected to continue accumulating throughout the day.

See the list for all the closings in the area.

The guest columnist, Danny Gardner, wrote a thought-provoking column in the January 20th edition of The Sun Times.