Long Grove

Ambrook reports on the growth of olive oil farming in the southern United States, an industry long dominated by Mediterranean producers. Farmers in the region are planting olive groves and building processing capacity, betting that changing climate and growing domestic demand can make US-grown olive oil commercially viable.

A proposed commercial solar energy project is facing opposition from the villages of Hawthorn Woods and Long Grove. Local officials are pushing back against the plan, though details of the objections and the scale of the proposal have not been laid out in the available reporting.

A federal judge has ended the long-standing desegregation order covering the Camden Fairview and Harmony Grove school districts in south Arkansas, formally closing decades of federal court oversight of the districts' integration obligations. The ruling frees the districts to operate without court supervision. Reaction in the region is focused on what the change means for students, school boundaries, and the legacy of the desegregation cases.

A federal judge has ended a decades-old desegregation order covering the Camden Fairview and Harmony Grove school districts in south Arkansas, formally releasing them from federal court oversight of their desegregation obligations. The ruling closes one of the long-running school desegregation cases in the state, and attention is focused on what the change will mean for students, staffing, and district policies going forward.