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ARKANSAS – On a recent morning, a small crowd gathered in the freshly swept parking lot of the Lambrook, Ark., post office, a simple brick building with white trim. Word had spread quickly through the...
View ArticleRural Residents Fight Back to Save Local Post Offices
FOX, Ark. – If the U.S. Postal Service ever thought it could simply slip into hundreds of rural communities across the country and quietly close their post offices without a fight, it now knows...
View ArticleGrandon and Carr: Rural Community Alliance Thwarts Sneak Attack on Funding...
Arkansas’ Rural Community Alliance has a rich history of steadfastly supporting the state’s smallest and poorest rural communities ‒ from the predominantly white hill country in the Ozarks to the...
View ArticleToo Small to Fail
Long bus rides, boarded-up schools and withering small towns: This is the legacy of school consolidation in Arkansas, rural residents say. More than half a century after the Supreme Court ruled that...
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