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S Arkansas' largest state park:

A work in progress

Northwest Arkansas — Arkansas ' largest state park was largely unknown to most Arkansans until the opening of a new visitors center in May. Prior to that, many of the people who used the 12,000-plusacre Hobbs State Park-Conservation Area thought of it more as a wildlife management area where hunting was allowed. Although it was never a WMA, it is still the only state park where hunting is allowed. Read More »

By David Frank Dempsey posted August 30, 2009 at 4:13 a.m.

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Marine Corps Staff Sgt. John Cheze carries the U.S. flag Tuesday to be presented to the Northwest Arkansas Marine Corps League Detachment at American Legion Post in Bella Vista. The flag was flown above the Marine Corps War Memorial in Washington, D.C., since the Corps’ 234th anniversary on Nov. 10, 2009.

Published March 17, 2010
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Aubryn Redmond, 4, plays a give-and-take game of chase and fetch Tuesday with her pug, Olive, at Bark Park in Bentonville. Aubryn, from Centerton, was visting the park on North Walton Boulevard with family.

Published March 17, 2010
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After tagging a Fort Smith Southside runner out, Bentonville first baseman Arthur Flowers throws to second during Tuesday’s game in Bentonville.

Published March 17, 2010
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Kelly Fields, a fifth-grader at Grace Hill Elementary School in Rogers, wins a contest Monday by hanging by her arms the longest at the school. The children were taking a break from the academic part of Benchmark Boot Camp, an intensive study program to prepare them for the Benchmark tests, which start the third week of April.

Published March 16, 2010
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Peaches Coleman, left, and Krista Khone talk with the new director of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Dr. Don Bacigalupi in Bentonville on Monday. Coleman and Khone were among hundreds to greet Bacigalupi at the reception in the Shewmaker Center for Workforce Technologies on the NorthWest Arkansas Community College campus.

Published March 16, 2010
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