Stories from Friday, August 29, 2003

BERRYVILLE ---- A dozen or more ducks are in danger of abduction and mutilation, all at the hands of people who stop by George Pond in the heart of Berryville. Animal Control Officer Gay Lynn Easter says several ducks have been abducted by people who lure the critters into their confidence by offering tidbits of food...

BERRYVILLE ---- A group of Berryville junior high girls kept their basketball skills sharp this past summer by playing in the Mid-America Youth Basketball league. The team played a lot of All-Star teams from 4A and 5A schools in five tournaments totaling 25 games in Springfield and Branson, Mo., and Alma, Fayetteville, and Siloam Springs, Ark...

If staying in Carroll County and working all summer isn't your thing, take a page from recent Berryville graduate Allison Carozza's notebook. Allison decided to spend a week or so playing softball this summer ---- in Maui, Hawaii. Carozza was originally set to play with an Oklahoma team, but that coach backed out. He didn't desert the girls though, just split them up with other teams. Allison wound up playing on the team from Butler (Kan.) College...

On Thursday, Aug. 21, new Berryville High School golf coach Patricia Conner loaded the boys and girls onto a bus and they roared away into the new fall era of Arkansas high school golf. Playing during Daylight savings showed one immediate improvement, as the Bobcat boys were able to play 18 holes at the Harrison Country Club, site of that historic first outing...

Week of Aug. 17 August 17 7:57 p.m. ---- Police were dispatched to a Tenth Street residence to investigate a terroristic threatening complaint. 8:20 p.m. ---- Police went to a Berryville location to look for the suspect. The suspect was found and transported to jail...

Week of Aug. 18 August 18 8:30 a.m. -- Incident report taken after a bracelet was stolen from vehicle on Owen St. 8:33 a.m. -- Subject reported his vehicle was taken from apartments. Vehicle reappeared with keys in it and everything okay. 9:08 a.m. -- Accident report taken on private property incident...

Week of Aug. 18 August 18 2:27 a.m. ---- Shoplifting call at Wal-Mart. No evidence of theft. 2:51 a.m. ---- Male adult arrested on warrant at Wal-Mart. 7:03 a.m. ---- Assisted sheriff's office on overdose case. 8:40 a.m. ---- Medical assist on Lone Pine...

VELMA EDITH KEELAND RAY, a resident of Shell Knob, Mo., was born Nov. 5, 1921, in Nauvoo, Mo., a daughter of Walter L. and Alpha Avis (Garrison) Keeland. She died Thursday, Aug. 21, 2003, in Springfield, Mo., at the age of 81. Mrs. Ray was a homemaker...

BERNICE R. NELSON, 96, of Rockford, Ill., formerly of Eureka Springs, died Saturday, Aug. 9, 2003, at Fairhaven Christian Retirement Center in Rockford, after a brief illness. Born July 25, 1907 in Rodutt, Ill., to Oscar and Martha (Lincoln) Weiler. ...

"Carroll County is going to build a jail that, by most accounts, will be source of pride for our community." Say What? By most accounts? Pride or our community? A new jail? In the same edition, headlines scream "County budget is going into crisis" and "Schools need help."...

CCN staff report (The following story is true. Names and some details have been altered for purposes of anonymity.) June knows she is lucky, having successfully come from the other side of addiction to methamphetamine with her life and a reasonably attractive appearance, and without significant brain damage...

Meeting Friday morning, both as finance committee and as quorum court, Carroll County's justices of the peace crunched out $341,854.07 in potential budget cuts in its general fund, leaving county operations in the black until the end of the year, but in a tenuous position for the start of 2004 when revenues are traditionally slow...

by David McNeal This story is about education reform in Arkansas in the 1950s and how then-Gov. Orval Faubus bought my family our first television. Education reform is a hot topic in Arkansas right now, what with Gov. Mike Huckabee and the Arkansas Legislature mandated by the courts to make education equitable for all students...