{"id":292723,"date":"2025-11-15T07:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T07:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/292723\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T07:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T07:01:11","slug":"mike-mcneills-diary-for-friday-november-14-2025-northern-lights-mike-mcneills-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/292723\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike McNeill\u2019s Diary for Friday, November 14, 2025: Northern Lights | Mike McNeill’s Diary"},"content":{"rendered":"

We will be publishing soon some of the many pictures readers have sent magnoliareporter.com<\/a> regarding the spectacular show of the Northern Lights. It is rare to witness the aurora this far south. It\u2019s a great show and a living science lesson. It also gives us an opportunity to mention one of our newer features on our website, the daily Weather\/Sky report. We\u2019re always on the lookout for material we think our readers will find informative, but for which a compilation may be lacking with specific local interest. Every night, we ask ChatGPT to search hard for information specific to our geographic coordinates, 33.2671\u00b0 N, 93.2394\u00b0 W , as they relate to weather, the rising and setting of the sun and moon, recorded earthquakes, regional observations of fireballs, astronomical phenomenon, even space launches from sites within the United States. We\u2019re kinda nerdish about this but we think others will find this data informative. CLICK HERE to see today\u2019s feature<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Should be unusually warm on Saturday. Fall indeed.<\/p>\n

A reminder that if your church, group, club, school or neighborhood is planning special activities for the public as part of the Thanksgiving or Christmas\/New Year\u2019s holidays, email the information to news@magnoliareporter<\/a>. We can\u2019t tell our readers what we don\u2019t know. You shouldn\u2019t count on your Facebook page to spread that information beyond your own group of followers. We average around 11,000 individual site visits daily \u2013 yesterday, it was 12,168.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s installment of our weekly Re-imagining Magnolia feature looks at a block of Carver Street, which is between Calhoun Road and Renfroe Street near the former Calhoun Heights Elementary School. It\u2019s clear that one house on the block has been well maintained through the years, but it is now vacant. It is hard to imagine that anyone would want to occupy or buy it if one examines the rest of the block, which consists of dilapidated housing. Most of the east side of Carver is a weedy lot \u2013 part of it is piled with demolition debris. Magnolia doesn\u2019t have to look like this. We used ChatGPT to rehab the best home and to re-imagine a quasi-duplex. We\u2019ve also turned the ugly lot into a beautiful garden. Carver Street may never take on the appearance we have given to it, but it CAN look better than it does. Magnolia\u2019s residents should expect more from its property owners, and from people who live in all of our neighborhoods. CLICK HERE to see today\u2019s feature<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We are not real estate agents, but we note that several properties are available for rent, lease or purchase on the Magnolia Square right now. Come join us! We love being on the square.<\/p>\n

We also appreciate that the Magnolia Police Department walked \u2013 yes, walked \u2013 through our neighborhood very early one recent morning. We\u2019ve always felt perfectly safe here.<\/p>\n

Fifteen years ago, we reported that Southern Arkansas beat Champion Baptist 101-40 in basketball. CLICK HERE to read the article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Release the Epstein files. All of them.<\/p>\n

Mike McNeill is publisher and editor of magnoliareporter.com<\/a>. Email him at news@magnoliareporter.com<\/a> or call him at 870-904-3865. Opinions expressed in this column are his own.<\/p>\n

CLICK HERE to see past installments of Mike McNeill\u2019s Diary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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