Stories from Wednesday, April 14, 2004

by David McNeal There is already a huge crises at the Olympic summer games, to be held in Athens, Greece, this 2004 ---- It will be hot! And the biggest complainers (so far)? Why, the swimmers. Yep, there will be no roof on the swimming pool, so they will actually have to dive and swim in the open air of a Greek summer...

Coach Tony Coffey and the Green Forest Tigers may have faced the best pitcher in the conference that isn't on their team last Thursday when they played a double header at Shiloh Christian in Springdale. Errors took their toll in both games, with the Tigers losing 6-3 the first game, with three errors, and 8-2 the second, with four errors, while the Saints had just one error each game...

Coach Tracy Jones' Berryville Bobcat baseball team swept the Prairie Grove Tigers in a doubleheader last Thursday at the Grove, keeping them on top of the 1AAA Conference. Berryville took the first game 11-5, then came back to take the second 10-5. Those wins moved their season record to 9-8 overall, 8-1 in league play, good for the top spot...

The annual Eureka Springs Junior Highlander Relays took advantage of nice weather on Thursday, April 8, with local runners putting up some impressive times and distances in a field of 400 entries. The Berryville Bobcat junior high teams swept both team titles, but the Green Forest girls were right behind Berryville in second place...

Week of April 5 April 5 2:30 a.m. ---- Police checked an abandoned vehicle at a medical facility. 6:50 p.m. ---- Police were at the school investigating a missing child complaint. 7:05 p.m. ---- The missing child was found. 9 p.m. ---- Police transported a subject to jail following a traffic stop...

Week of April 5 April 5 7:05 p.m. ---- Officer arrested a male suspect for criminal trespass at Wal-Mart. 7:35 p.m. ---- Report of a handicapped parking violation at the Community Center. Situation was resolved. 8:46 p.m. ---- Report of vandalism at George Pond turned out to be unfounded...

Week of April 5 April 5 11:05 a.m. -- Subject arrested on CCSO warrant. 9:43 p.m. -- Complainant reported the unauthorized use of a vehicle. Vehicle was returned to owner and no report was made. April 6 1:48 a.m. -- Caller reported an intoxicated subject at gas station had passed out at table. Subject was arrested for public intoxication...

Berryville volunteer firefighters were able to contain a fire last Thursday at an historic home near Grandview in time for the residents to get most of their antiques, valuables and furniture out of the more than 100-year-old home. Berryville Fire Chief Gene Chafin said the Bruce and Jennifer McCall home on County Road 215 off of state Highway 143 south of Grandview was built around the time of the Civil War, and said the volunteers were able to save most of the structure but the insurance company estimated it at a total loss.. ...

GREEN FOREST ---- Buddy Fry Jr., a Green Forest High School graduate who lives in the Coin Community, was hired as public works director for the City of Green Forest on Monday night. Council members interviewed two applicants for a position that has been vacant since December when water superintendent Steve Patton resigned to take a job in Hollister...

BERRYVILLE ---- The city council unanimously approved the the final version of an ordinance last Monday that amends city code to establish standards to regulate derelict properties, unsightly conditions, and eyesores such as rubbish, garbage and old appliances on local properties...

Arkansas Business, the state's weekly business magazine, set off on a project in January to identify how many businesses in Arkansas were more than 75 years old. They soon found out that businesses with at least 100 years of continuous operation would be a more feasible target, since there were so many companies that qualified for the 75-year mark...

by Mary Jean Sell In the olden days, say the past 15 to 20 years, residents of Eureka Springs could get a petition drive going to protect or save or get rid of just about anything -- trees, tourists on large buses, whatever. It has been at least two years, maybe almost three, since a petition hit the city council table. That one was thrown down by former Mayor Beau Satori...

Drilling on the new Holiday Island Suburban Improvement District golf course well was shut down briefly last week when the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) received one telephone call expressing concern over possible environmental impacts...

Lane House. Inc., a non-profit organization serving the youth of Carroll County for over 10 years, has received a $250,000 matching lead gift from Martin and Elise Roenigk toward the renovation of the 100 year-old building purchased by Lane House in 2003...

Human skeletal remains found March 16 just outside Eureka Springs city limits have been identified as those of a Huntsville man reported missing from a local motel last August, according to Sheriff Chuck Medford. The Arkansas crime lab medical examiner reported to Medford and Eureka Springs Police Chief Earl Hyatt last Friday that dental records sent to the lab in Little Rock identified the remains as Anthony James Bourquin, 39...