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We’ve always heard good things about Law and his career. 

Recently, the Huntsville School District conducted a “School Climate and Culture Survey,” as required by the LEARNS Act, to find out what parents thought of the culture of the schools. …

Over the weekend, the Madison County Record was honored to receive first place in General Excellence in the Arkansas Press Association’s annual Better Newspaper Contest. 

Over the weekend at the Arkansas Bar Association’s annual meeting in Hot Springs, an attorney, who had given hours of work writing legislation that will potentially uphold, fortify and strengthen the state’s Freedom of Information Act, was handcuffed and escorted out of a seminar that she paid to attend after two people approached her asking to sign petitions she was carrying that would potentially put that legislation she crafted on our ballot in November, allowing the people to vote to maintain the need for transparency and an open government. 

The results are in and county and city leaders are taking note.   At a meeting on Feb. 22, a group gathered to hear the results of a city sponsored survey that will be the basis of the …

The Record is taking a closer look in this week’s edition at upcoming elections, issues facing the county and how candidates plan to address those issues. Voters will cast their ballots in …

Tom and Steuart Walton, grandsons of Walmart founders Helen and Sam Walton and heirs of the Walton fortune, founded the Runway Group, LLC, to invest in properties and businesses throughout Northwest Arkansas.

A couple of weeks ago in his first column, The Record’s new editor, Dan Marsh, wrote about the raid on a Kansas newspaper that happened recently.

Some of our Record staff spent the weekend in Little Rock at the Arkansas Press Association’s 150th anniversary celebration and convention celebrating each paper’s hard work throughout the year. The Record was the winner of 27 awards, including 10 first-place awards, as part of the press association’s general excellence’s competition.

On Monday, the Huntsville School Board along with Huntsville City Council members approved a contract for the city to provide school resource officers for the district. The school will fund the majority of the cost, approximately 75% of the nearly $330,000 over a two-year period.  See our full story beginning on page 1A. 

As Huntsville City Councilman Scott Thomas pointed out in last week’s Wage and Salary Commission meeting, Madison County is the fastest growing county in the state. 

We started looking for a rental house last week for a friend moving to Huntsville. Someone told us it would be easier to find a unicorn. 

Madison County voters are faced with a few choices: how much to spend on a jail and where and how big to build it. 

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