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		<title>State names Turner MSSD superintendent</title>
		<link>http://www.hopestar.com/article/20130517/NEWS/130519679?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 12:51:48</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken McLemore, Hope Star Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arkansas Department of Education Commissioner Dr. Tom Kimbrell named the superintendent of the Eureka Springs Public Schools to take over the financially troubled Mineral Springs School District today.]]></description>
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		<title>State to name MSSD superintendent</title>
		<link>http://www.hopestar.com/article/20130517/NEWS/130519694?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 10:23:47</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken McLemore, Hope Star Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arkansas Education Commissioner Dr. Tom Kimbrell expects to name a new superintendent for the Mineral Springs-Saratoga School District today who will run the district under state supervision.]]></description>
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		<title>Election plan gets court approval</title>
		<link>http://www.hopestar.com/article/20130517/NEWS/130519696?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 10:19:47</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken McLemore, Hope Star Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Based upon the agreement of the parties involved, a federal judge will allow the Hope Public School District to use a new seven-member districting plan for the election of school board members.]]></description>
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		<title>Bobcats at Hempstead Hall</title>
		<link>http://www.hopestar.com/article/20130517/NEWS/130519698?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 10:15:22</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken McLemore, Hope Star Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hope High School will become the first high school to honor its graduates at the new $10 million Hempstead Hall conference/arts venue on the University of Arkansas Community College at Hope campus when 132 seniors receive diplomas tonight in 7 p.m. commencement exercises.]]></description>
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		<title>Wanda Mae Madden - Obituary</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 10:09:26</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wanda Mae Madden, 77 of Hope, died Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at Baptist Hospital in Little<br>Rock.]]></description>
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		<title>Eugene Hopson - Obituary</title>
		<link>http://www.hopestar.com/article/20130517/NEWS/130519702?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 10:06:59</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eugene HopsonII, 57, of Emmet, died Monday, May 13, 2013, at his residence.]]></description>
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		<title>State takes over MSSD</title>
		<link>http://www.hopestar.com/article/20130516/NEWS/130519734?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 14:49:44</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken McLemore, Hope Star Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arkansas Education Commissioner Dr. Tom Kimbrell will appoint a new superintendent for the Mineral Springs-Saratoga School District and has dissolved the district's governing board.]]></description>
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		<title>Candlelight vigil remembers the fallen</title>
		<link>http://www.hopestar.com/article/20130516/NEWS/130519740?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 13:26:27</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken McLemore, Hope Star Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A drizzling rain fell outside as some three dozen law enforcement officers, first responders, their families and community friends gathered in candlelight vigil at the Hempstead County Law Enforcement Center here Wednesday night to remember the fallen on Peace Officers' Memorial Day.]]></description>
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		<title>MSSD audit raises issues</title>
		<link>http://www.hopestar.com/article/20130516/NEWS/130519742?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 13:17:49</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken McLemore, Hope Star Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[State auditors have called into question contracts for consulting services and employees; uses of federal funds; and, reimbursement payments made by the Mineral Springs-Saratoga School District in an audit of the district's books for 2011-2012.]]></description>
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		<title>Fun on track for Train Day</title>
		<link>http://www.hopestar.com/article/20130516/NEWS/130519744?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 13:13:14</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken McLemore, Hope Star Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Climb aboard history and ride the fun Saturday as Hope celebrates its new connection with Amtrak on National Train Day.]]></description>
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		<title>UACCH grads turn the tassel</title>
		<link>http://www.hopestar.com/article/20130515/NEWS/130519792?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 13:20:39</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken McLemore, Hope Star Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a flick of 288 mortarboard tassels, the University of Arkansas Community College at Hope invested its Class of 2013 with what a top administrator of the University of Arkansas System said Tuesday night were the challenges of  educational liberation, paying it forward, and celebrating themselves.]]></description>
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		<title>Fiscal distress drains MSSD staff</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 13:13:44</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken McLemore, Hope Star Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mineral Springs-Saratoga School District Board accepted 11 teaching and administrative resignations Monday night in the wake of an on-going &#8220;fiscal distress&#8221; dilemma that prevents the district from hiring anyone, including a new superintendent.]]></description>
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		<title>Arson cases under review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 13:09:08</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken McLemore, Hope Star Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Formal charges are still under review in connection with the arrest May 2 of a Hope man accused of committing three major arson fires, as well as a number of local break-ins.]]></description>
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		<title>'Robin Hoods' of the parking meters being sued</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 12:50:29</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The city of Keene, N.H., has sued a group that feeds change into parking meters that are about to expire, saying members are harassing enforcement officers.]]></description>
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		<title>Hempstead Hall to host first commencement</title>
		<link>http://www.hopestar.com/article/20130514/NEWS/130519836?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 14:06:20</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken McLemore, Hope Star Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although the commencement ceremonies tonight for University of Arkansas Community College at Hope Class of 2013 will be the 40th or so event conducted at the new Hempstead Hall venue, the class will make history as the first to receive degrees in the facility.]]></description>
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		<title>Commission to seek funds from Beebe</title>
		<link>http://www.hopestar.com/article/20130514/NEWS/130519837?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 14:01:26</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken McLemore, Hope Star Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A meeting set for Wednesday between the nine members of the Arkansas Red River Commission and Governor Mike Beebe may determine the future of a 40-year project to bring navigation along the Red River into Arkansas.]]></description>
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		<title>Destroyed records prevent medal award</title>
		<link>http://www.hopestar.com/article/20130514/NEWS/130519838?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 13:56:50</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grace Leonhart, Hope Star Writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Family and friends gathered recently to honor a man who was severely wounded in war and never received formal recognition for his service.]]></description>
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		<title>Blevins adopts school choice</title>
		<link>http://www.hopestar.com/article/20130514/NEWS/130519839?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 13:49:04</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Miller, For Hope Star</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blevins joins the growing list of school districts to be part of the school choice program.]]></description>
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		<title>Charles Griffith - Obituary</title>
		<link>http://www.hopestar.com/article/20130514/NEWS/130519840?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 13:45:26</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles &#8220;Wayne&#8221; Griffith, 60, of Emmet, died Friday, May 10, 2013, at Wadley Regional Medical Center at Hope.]]></description>
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		<title>UACCH to phase-out program</title>
		<link>http://www.hopestar.com/article/20130513/NEWS/130519892?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 15:04:33</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken McLemore, Hope Star Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite a disappointing circumstance which will require the phase-out of the Respiratory Care degree program at the University of Arkansas Community College at Hope, enrollment remains positive, the UACCH Board of Visitors learned Friday.]]></description>
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