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Council will refund bad permit fee, agrees to study outdoor vendors
(Local News ~ 09/30/04)
Two potentially volatile issues were handled carefully by the Eureka Springs City Council Monday evening in a marathon meeting. Lita Braswell, owner of the Copacabana Club, asked for compensation after she was given a permit for a special event Labor Day weekend by a city hall employee not authorized to issue such a permit...
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Variance denied for 46 Hillside
(Local News ~ 09/30/04)
Requests for a variance and one conditional use permit (CUPs) for the property at 46 Hillside were turned down Thursday evening by the Eureka Springs Board of Zoning Adjustment/Planning Commission (BOZA) in spite of a lengthy public hearing and pleas "to do the right thing."...
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Tillman Morgan was a 'consummate professional' (Local News ~ 09/30/04)
When the announcement of the death of long-time realtor and insurance agent Tillman Morgan came during the Eureka Springs Preservation Society annual meeting last Tuesday evening, a gasp of shock went through the room. Morgan had been named for a Realtor Appreciation Award, although he had been retired for several years... -
Commissioners agree to Rec Center improvements (Local News ~ 09/30/04)
It took two hours Monday night to hash out an agreement on which, if any, improvements should be made to the Holiday Island Recreation Center, but in the end the Board of Commissioners gave the nod to Option #2 as presented by Morrison Architecture... -
Back to the drawing board for Berryville after millage failure
(Local News ~ 09/30/04)
BERRYVILLE ---- After a "disappointing loss" for the Berryville School District's requested millage increase, Superintendent Mike Cox said he wants to consult with the school board and its three new members before deciding whether to bring in more portable buildings for the overcrowded schools, or seek a new millage raise in a special election in the spring, possibly March...
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School's cola contract to be studied
(Local News ~ 09/30/04)
GREEN FOREST ---- Pepsi products may soon be banned from the Green Forest School campus, according to guidelines set down by the state legislature. Act 1220 says every school district must have a school nutrition and physical activity advisory committee to assist in the development of local policies, including "pursuing contracts that both encourage healthy eating by students and reduce school dependence on profits from the sale of food of minimal nutritional value."...
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Kings River's new watershed planner knows the territory -- Eureka Springs HS alumnus brings impressive credentials (Local News ~ 09/30/04)
Shawna Miller is extremely excited to return home to be the watershed planner for the Kings River Watershed Partnership and the Upper White River Foundation. A 1997 alumnus of Eureka Springs High School, she graduated cum laude in 2001 from Rhodes College at Memphis, Tenn., with a major in biology focusing on ecology, and a minor in anthropology and sociology... -
200 seek domestic violence 'safe harbor' in first year of operation (Local News ~ 09/30/04)
More than 200 people have sought the assistance of Dorothy Crookshank, Carroll County's domestic violence advocate since she set up shop a little more than a year ago at St. John's Hospital ---- Berryville. Most of her clients have been women, although a few have been men ---- holding true to statistics that show nearly 97 percent of all domestic violence victims are women... -
Gladys Jean (Badley) Lawrence
(Obituary ~ 09/30/04)
GLADYS JEAN (BADLEY) LAWRENCE, a resident of Green Forest, was born Oct. 12, 1913, in the Enon community of Carroll County, a daughter of Fred and Olar (McElmurray) Badley. She died Saturday, Sept. 11, 2004, in Berryville at the age of 90. Mrs. Lawrence was a homemaker and a member of the Mt. Olivet Freewill Baptist Church in Blue Eye, Mo...
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