Skip to content Skip to sidebar Skip to footer

β€˜Where your faith really comes in’: Food pantries in Central Arkansas feeling effects of shutdown

Pallet jacks honked and forklifts whirred by, racing up and down aisles of towering shelves so the workers controlling them could pack trucks for delivery to food pantries that keep some of Arkansas’ neediest from going hungry. β€œIt’s like Dancing with the Stars,” Arkansas Foodbank Marketing and Communications Director Kate Jenkins remarked on Tuesday, raising…

Read more

SNAP benefits halted, leaving 240,000 Arkansans without food assistance

Federal food assistance ended Saturday for nearly one in 10 households in Baxter County as the government shutdown cut off Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits statewide. Roughly 240,000 Arkansans, including thousands in Baxter, Marion and Fulton counties, lost access to benefits that helped them buy groceries each month. The U.S. Senate has voted 13 times…

Read more

Local Mountain Home, AR News



Β© 2026 Mountain Home Observer. All Rights Reserved.