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Volunteers Still Essential
Find ways to help, online or on your own block AMANDA BANCROFT Making Ripples One of the best ways to distract yourself from a problem is to help someone else
Head Count
Monitors can help bird populations AMANDA BANCROFT Making Ripples As of this writing, the season’s first clutch of bluebird eggs has hatched, transforming a tan nest cup filled with sky
Mask Maker! Mask Maker!
Concerned citizens find ways to help out AMANDA BANCROFT Making Ripples There are many heroic deeds done every day, but during an epidemic, we see them in a brighter light,
Go Outdoors Safely: When, where you go keeps you socially distant
It’s the Easter season, and what better way to celebrate spring and all things cute than by going outdoors to look for baby bunnies and nests filled with gorgeous colored
Time in kitchen keeps woes away
Stuck at home with too much time or too many kids? Bake chocolate chip cookies, a cake, biscuits, bread or anything to take your mind off the pandemic for a
Stay Positive In Difficult Times
Garden, walk, play games, cook, look for the good in everything AMANDA BANCROFT Making Ripples While our society remains disrupted in unprecedented ways that build uncertainty daily through our inescapable
Spring Has Sprung
Birds are flying, frogs croaking and flowers blooming AMANDA BANCROFT Making Ripples The spring equinox is Thursday, March 19, but as the groundhog Punxsutawney Phil predicted last month, spring is
Nightbird Books closes, leaves niche open in community
This is the end of an era for more than one Fayetteville tradition, and the beginning for quite a few, too. After 14 years in business, Nightbird Books, an independent
Changing weather patterns may be blamed
Northwest Arkansas once had four distinct seasons. Now, we have unpredictable weather patterns that sometimes bring more rain than usual or less snow than average over many years. Winter has
Oh, Deer!: Social lessons can be seen in herd
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs has nothing on the hierarchy of deer. While they may appear to herd together like brainless sheep, their movements and behaviors are intentional, based on a