All five Farmington school campuses will have new security cameras next year that will record around the clock, have additional storage capacity and facial recognition capabilities and be much easier for staff to use, according to school officials.
Timepiece: Treasure of the Ozarks
Curtis Varnell, PhD.
Western Arkansas Educational Service Cooperative
Stories of hidden treasure abound in the mountains of Arkansas and every town has variations of tales surrounding buried Spanish, Native American and Civil War treasures. One of the more lasting tales involves the Lost Spanish Mine found in Franklin county, just north of Turner Bend.
The most popular story surrounding the lost gold involves a group of Spanish explorers traveling up the Arkansas River and north on the Mulberry River in a galleon loaded with gold taken from the Native Americans. Stranded in the area, they chose to hide the treasure underground in the soft sandstone of a bluff on the north side of the river. The site had a large marker rock on top of the bluff and numerous Native American pictographs painted on the bluff walls. Once hidden and bobby trapped, the entrance was closed in and the Spaniards and accompanying Native Americans scattering to the four win
Timepiece: Ole Dina
Western Arkansas Educational Service Cooperative
As a child I watched all of the old westerns and longed for the cowboy accoutrement including a beautiful horse like Trigger, Champion or Silver. Those who watched the old cowboy shows know instantly which animal belonged to whom and exactly what each of those magnificent animals that ruled the west looked like. Later, to my surprise, I found a much more mundane and certainly not as beautiful animal, that actually did most of the real work on the frontier and truly settled the west the common mule. That awkward looking, big, floppy-eared, dew-lipped beast was the animal of choice to get work accomplished. The mule is a cross between a male donkey, called a jack, and a horse. The offspring is a larger, bigger muscled version of the horse but with the superior intelligence of the donkey.