Are gas prices affecting your summer travel plans? No. I won't let it get me down!: 5.7% (3 votes) Not yet, but they may if gas keeps getting higher.: 7.5% (4 votes) Yes. I'm sticking close to home this summer.: 34.0% (18 votes) Travel plans? I can barely afford to drive to work!: 52.8% (28 votes)...

We hope everyone is enjoying browsing our new website. If you ever have difficulty navigating it, feel free to send me an e-mail to tcteditor@eritter.net. I hope you'll take the time to go by and introduce yourself in the forums we have set up on the "Speak Out" blog. Click on the ad on the right side of the page, or click on the blogs and find the speak out blog to leave your comments...

Thanks to everyone following our polls on the website. For those of you who don't know, you don't have to vote each time to check on the poll's status. Just click on the "vote" button at the bottom of the poll and you can see the current votes without casting one of your own. This helps keep our polls as accurate as possible...

We are excited to announce a new feature to our website, the Speak Out Blog! You'll always find it by clicking on the Speak Out blog on the left hand side of the screen. You can also find it by clicking on the Blogs tab at the top of the page...

Friday was a memorable day for many Arkansans, some of which lost loved ones in the tornados that ripped through the state. We saw our own devastation locally as houses and businesses in Etowah were completely destroyed. Earle also suffered substantial damage...

A tornado passed through Marked Tree this afternoon. There were no reports of the storm touching down, but there was visible rotation. I stood in the street and watched as the dark clouds were twirling around. It was pretty spooky. Suddenly the sky seemed to suck the dark clouds back up into the atmosphere and continued to move toward Lepanto...

I hope everyone is enjoying browsing our new online home. We're very excited about the changes, and there are even more changes to come. In the coming weeks we will be adding blogs from local readers, uploading video content from local meetings and events and adding interesting photo galleries...