Stories from Wednesday, August 13, 2003

BERRYVILLE ---- The city council has taken the first step in dealing with pollution problems that the state says comes in part from the city's sewage discharge into Osage Creek, the mayor announced last week. The Osage Creek has been placed on the Environmental Protection Agency's endangered waterways list. The Osage has high phosphorous levels that end up in the Kings River, and then into Table Rock Lake...

"What's a cop to do?" asks staff writer Ken O'Toole in this week's concluding part of his series on the methamphetamine epidemic in Carroll County. The appalling answer, right now, is "very little." Catching the incidental meth user (if it's ever incidental) isn't what we're talking about here. ...

DOROTHY A. ENSOR, a thirty year resident of Holiday Island, Arkansas was born February 14, 1912 in Marion, Illinois a daughter of Jewell Edmond and Grace Mae (Simmons) Avis. She died Wednesday, August 6, 2003 in Eureka Springs at the age of 91. As a child, Mrs. ...

Week of Aug. 4 August 4 8:55 a.m. -- Incident report taken after subject reported receiving opened mail that was not addressed to him at his place of business. 12:08 p.m. -- Incident report taken on harassing phone calls at business. 12:10 p.m. -- Incident report taken to damage done to Magnetic Spring...

Week of Aug. 4 August 4 11:15 p.m. ---- Police were dispatched to a Veda Street location to investigate a fireworks complaint. 11:35 p.m. ---- Police were dispatched to R&D Pawn to investigate an alarm call. Everything was okay. August 5 6:20 p.m. ---- Police went to a Phillips Street location to serve a warrant...

Carroll County football teams started practices last week, and although numbers were low in the senior high ranks at both Green Forest and Berryville, both junior high squads had numbers in the 40s. This is the second week of workouts, with coaches and players alike looking forward to getting into pads on Thursday. That's when the teams will begin to take shape...

by David McNeal What the heck is wrong with college sports? That's easy. Too much money from television, all going to adults, and very little to the athletes that are responsible for all that revenue. I remember when I was a kid (really, I can, if I try real hard) and television was beginning to invade the average home. A number of preachers in our community called it the coming of the devil and the end of family life...

Sheriff's investigator Ralph Gordon said Monday that the Berryville man who was seriously beaten and set afire last Monday is still in critical condition and in a "clinically induced coma" so he won't suffer the pain he received after he underwent surgery at a Tulsa hospital burn unit last week, and his prognosis is still poor, according to his doctors...

(This is the final part of a three-part series on the methamphetamine epidemic in Carroll County. Part 1 documented law enforcement efforts, and Part 2 last week listed the relationship of meth to violent crime.) By Ken O'Toole CCN staff writer What's a cop to do?...