🌱 How a Smackover hotel stop led to a double-murder arrest

What's up Smackover! Let's start this morning right by getting caught up on what's going on around town. Keep reading to stay in the loop. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

• How a Smackover hotel stop led to a double-murder arrest

Also on today's calendar: 2nd Annual Walk Like Valerie! Cancer Walk & Wellness Fair 2026.

Today's riddle: What has a cap but no head? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Saturday: Showers and a heavier t-storm, with a high of 78 and low of 65 degrees.
• Sunday: Humid with a passing shower, temps: high: 85, low: 57.
• Monday: Sunlit, warm and less humid, with a high of 86 and low of 52 degrees. 🌶 Hot!

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📰 News we're reading

• El Dorado PD makes arrest in 2024 Hillsboro Street double-homicide (myarklamiss.com) — El Dorado police, with U.S. Marshals, arrested homicide suspect Alex Dunn after tracking his vehicle and locating him at a hotel in Smackover, Ark., in connection with a 2024 double killing on Hillsboro Street. Investigators say the victims were intentionally rammed on a motorcycle and then shot, and they expect more arrests as the case continues.
   

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📸 Around Smackover

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Smackover

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday October 17

• Zach Rushing →
  Murphy Arts District, 101 E Locust St, El Dorado
  7:00 pm

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Other local events

Saturday October 24

• 2nd Annual Walk Like Valerie! Cancer Walk & Wellness Fair 2026 →
  Old City Park, 715 N College Ave, El Dorado
  9:00 am

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📣 Smackover Shout Outs!

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🗓 Events Nearby

Saturday October 3

• 14th Annual Paint the Town Pink →
  El Dorado AR
  9:00 am
• Barber Violin Concerto →
  El Dorado Municipal Auditorium, 100 W 8th St, El Dorado
  7:00 pm
• Barber Violin Concerto (El Dorado, AK) →
  El Dorado Municipal Auditorium, 100 W 8th St, El Dorado
  7:00 pm

Monday October 5

• 1968: A Folsom Redemption-Johnny Cash Exhibition →
  Gallery of History Museum, 412 E. Faulkner St., El Dorado

Saturday October 10

• Flatland Cavalry: First Financial Music Hall →
  First Financial Music Hall, 101 E Locust St, El Dorado
  12:00 pm
• First Financial Music Hall →
  First Financial Music Hall, 101 E Locust St, El Dorado
  12:00 pm
• THE SOUTHWEST TAKEOVER →
  1430 E 19th St, El Dorado
  8:00 pm
• Flatland Cavalry with special guest Aiden Logsdon & the Outlaws →
  First Financial Music Hall, 101 East Locust Street, El Dorado
  8:00 pm

Monday October 12

• Story Time @ The 1988 →
  The 1988 - Books and Gifts, 117 N Jefferson Ave, El Dorado
  10:30 am

Friday October 16

• Diamond Rio →
  101 East Locust Street, El Dorado

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• CROSSMARK posted a job opening for (IMMEDIATE HIRE) Product/ Event Demonstrator in El Dorado. Apply here.
• Dollar General posted a job opening for ASST STORE MGR in EL DORADO AR S25604 in El Dorado. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Smackover here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Camden

• Camden Fairview, Harmony Grove no longer under federal desegregation order (camdenarknews.com)
• Camden Fairview Middle School earns second set of OEP growth awards (camdenarknews.com)
• Tucker named SAU Tech's 'Unsung Hero' (camdenarknews.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What has a cap but no head?" — A bottle (Thank you Glo M. for sending it in!)
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