This is where I’m supposed to give an obligatory rundown on all the obligatory changes we’ve made in the magazine for...
Season of Peace
It seems to happen during the week of Thanksgiving every year. Usually there’s a few warm, breezy, and muggy days —...
Wisdom comes from dirty hands
Opinions are like… elbows. Everyone has a couple. Is that how the saying goes? It sure seems like it on social media...
Phone-less days
This is going to blow some minds, but back in the 70s and 80s, sometimes an entire day would go by and I would never...
Editors Notebook: Scenes of summer
The mockingbird is stationed at the tiptop of a giant pine in our front yard in the gray light. His renditions come...
Red Devil Proud
I’d lived half of my 45 years in Atkins but this might have been a first. I could not see Crow Mountain. A thick,...
A beast in the bloodline
My 17-month-old granddaughter weighs only 17 pounds. She’s tiny, in the bottom percentile of both length and weight...
Local Lore
Creatures and happenings on the periphery of reality always spring to mind as the shadows lengthen in October. It’s...
Number 43
Arkansas Tech University is my alma mater, but, like nearly everyone from The Natural State, I’m a member of the...
It was 1980 something
If you’ve still got your Van Halen 5150 cassette, go ahead and click it into the deck and push play. If you could...
Our thoughts on the Pope County Library/lots/rezoning issue
ABOUT the River Valley firmly and unequivocally supports the Pope County Library System and its growth. With that...










