Stories from Thursday, August 19, 2004

An ordinance approving up to $40,000 for repairs to Black Bass Lake dam was approved by the Eureka Springs City Council during a special session last Tuesday. A leak near the base of the dam that went from "a drizzle to a pretty good flow" in a day's time was discovered by police officers as they were checking on vandalism to the pump station near the dam Friday, Aug. 6, according to Mayor Kathy Harrison...

The Eureka Springs Planning Commission is almost going back to square one to develop an ordinance to allow manufactured housing within the city limits. The group has been trying to get something in place to meet state mandates since the first of the year...

Monday the Holiday Island Men's Golf Association (HIMGA) appeared before the Holiday Island Suburban Improvement District (HISID) Board of Commissioners with a memo about improvements on the golf courses. HIMGA Chairman Burt Gore said his board's memo refers to a June 20 memo by Mark Mowrey, Golf Course Superintendent, outlining comments and suggestions he had received on the "2004 Improvement Plan, 18 & 9 Hole Golf Courses" draft presented in March...

Mandatory trash disposal in Holiday Island is not a done deal, and Monday the Holiday Island Suburban Improvement District (HISID) Board of Commissioners continued to discuss the issue with District Manager Kevin Crosson and Carroll County Solid Waste Authority (CCSWA) Director Roger Miner...

Second Lieutenant James Michael Goins, 23, an Army officer from Carroll County, was killed in Iraq Sunday during an armored assault in the militant city of Najaf, sources have confirmed. A Pentagon official said Monday that Goins is the first Iraq war fatality from Carroll County...

A young woman and her six-year-old daughter were killed "instantly" last Friday in a single-vehicle accident that also seriously injured two of the woman's other children. Arkansas State Trooper Chad Hipps said Doris Baugh, 27, of the Berryville area, and her daughter, Santana Howard, were apparently killed instantly when they were ejected from their 1995 Chevrolet Cavalier after hitting a tree at about 12:30 p.m. Friday afternoon...

Voters who cast ballots in the Democratic primary and again in the Republican runoff, voted illegally and their votes were tossed out. That was the decision of the Carroll County Election Commission when it met to certify election results. At Friday's meeting to set up school elections, the commission okayed minutes of a June meeting for certification of Republican runoff election results...