That sickening feeling in the gut of your stomach is something that you never want to feel. Certainly, on the fourth of july weekend where we wish to anticipate having fun with our friends and family, this is certainly, a terrible, terrible tragedy. I want to thank and commend our First Responders. Thanks to their response the work of the medical professionals in our hospitals and by the grace of god, all of the victims are expected to survive. I want to reassure our public that this is not an act of terrorism but a tragedy. A local community tragedy. It does not appear to be a planet shooting. It appears there was a disagreement amongst a small subset of individuals at a concert that turned violent because of the presence of rivalries and weapons. I want to take a moment here, in a minute after our officials give their briefing, to address some of the bigger issues affecting our community but there are two things that are readily apparent we must do more to keep guns out of the hands
Hermine “Maria” Pitard, 78, of Searcy, passed away Sunday, May 7, 2023. She was born March 9th, 1945, in Auerbach, Germany to the late Karl and Elisabeth Dümler Hofmann. Maria was brought up in a devout faith-based community where the family was very involved in her local Catholic Church. Her faith and the church always remained one of the most important parts of her life.