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• Join the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program for a tour of First Missionary Baptist on Friday

  03-08-2026 20:05 via arktimes.com
  
  ‘SANDWICHING IN HISTORY’: FIRST MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH
  FRIDAY 8/7. First Missionary Baptist Church. Noon. Free.  The next stop on the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program’s lunchtime history tours is a big one in Little Rock’s story: the First Missionary Baptist Church at 701 S. Gaines. Home to the capital city’s oldest Black congregation, First Missionary was founded in 1845 by a then-enslaved man, the Rev. Wilson Brown, and its current building &md
  
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• Waitlist, policy changes stir worries among families of Arkansans with disabilities

  03-08-2026 16:54 via arktimes.com
  
  Laura Hellinga moved to a new house in Highfill two years ago, hoping it would be more accessible for her 15-year-old daughter, who was born with a rare joint disorder and uses a motorized wheelchair.Their previous house had a track attached to the ceiling that could lift her daughter, Landry, in and out of her chair more safely than her mother could. But when Hellinga informed Landry’s health insurance provider that she wanted to move the contraption to the new house, she was informed it
  
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• Inside Hallie Shoffner’s underdog campaign to unseat Tom Cotton

  03-08-2026 16:00 via arktimes.com
  
  When Hallie Shoffner first launched her Senate campaign last July, it amounted to little more than amateur videos shot on an iPhone in a Delta rice field — her in a ball cap and denim shirt, talking straight into the camera about the farm crisis. The first-time candidate came across as smart and confident but easy to ignore. Her opponent, Tom Cotton, is one of the most powerful Republicans in the country. Running as a Democrat in a state that hasn’t sent one to Congress in 16 y
  
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