Stories from Tuesday, November 2, 2004

The Green Forest United Baptist Church, located at 106 Olive St., in Green Forest, will be hosting a homecoming on Sunday, Nov. 7. The all-day event will begin with Sunday School at 9:45 a.m., worship at 10:45 and a basket lunch at noon. Special guest singers for the day will be the Ascension Quartet, featuring Roger Howerton, a Green Forest native...

BERRYVILLE ---- William "Bill" Rotramel, the last survivor of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor from Carroll County, died Thursday, Oct. 28, at his home north of Berryville. Mr. Rotramel was 87, and he is survived by his wife of 52 years, Betty (Perkins) Rotramel...

Holiday Island artist Dee Landerman has received national and international attention for her work against child exploitation. She and artist Pam Steinke started V.O.I.C.E., Visual Outcry Illustrating Child Exploitation this summer. Together with Holiday Island artist Sharon Brinlee and others, they organized an event in Eureka Springs at Basin Park to showcase the works of artists involved in the endeavor to depict abuses and exploitation of children in China and other third-world countries who manufacture cheap American goods.. ...

Residents of Suntop Lane were a lot happier Friday than they had been a week earlier when they complained to the Holiday Island Suburban Improvement District Board of Commissioners they had no water pressure. At Friday's continuing work session on the 2005 budget, District Manager Kevin Crosson announced Mike Mathis of MCA Engineering was present to discuss water pressure problems on Suntop Lane...

The Town of Beaver still has no new mayor since Jim Young resigned in September. The town clerk, Mary Hill, has been acting mayor since then. The council was to have appointed a mayor to fill Young's vacancy Monday night, but voted after executive session that the people should have a say...

Members of the Eureka Springs City Advertising and Promotion Commission (CAPC) want to remove all connection with the city business licenses from the definition of "gift shop" in the city's enabling ordinance defining collectors of the 2 percent gross sales tax...

Coach Ben Lairamore and the senior high Bobcat cross country teams made the long trip to Conway last Saturday for the Wampus Cat Invitational races at Hendrix College, with both boys and girls teams earning second place finishes on the 5K course. The senior boys were second to Russellville with 62 points. The Cyclones scored a low 49. Hot Springs had 120, Little Rock Catholic 121, and Harrison 123...

It was three-and-out for the Green Forest Lady Tiger volleyball team at the Class AAA State Tournament in Harrison on Tuesday as they fell in three games to one of the tournament's top teams, the Westside, Jonesboro, Warriors. Westside made it all the way to the championship game last year, only to lose to Valley View. They are determined to make it to the finals again this year, and showed why against Green Forest, who finished 12-13 for the year...

The Harrisburg Hornets volleyball team plays in one of the state's toughest conferences and it showed on Tuesday when they eliminated the Berryville Lady Bobcat volleyball team in the first round of the Class AAA State Tournament in Harrison. Berryville (24-2) may have been a No. 1 seed from the 1AAA conference with a sparkling season record, but Harrisburg has to play against teams like 2003 state runner-up Westside Jonesboro, Valley View, and Trumann...

As a male, I have to admit this book makes sense. Released at the same time as Zondervan's book for adolescent boys, The Naked Truth, this book partners to clarify misunderstanding between the sexes that have haunted relationships for millenniums, and, in all honesty, will probably continue despite the best efforts of women's and men's liberation...

This year's Community Thanksgiving Service, sponsored by the Eureka Springs Ministerial Association, will be hosted by Pastor Phil Wilson of First Christian Church, 763 Passion Play Road, on Nov. 18 starting at 7 p.m. Purpose of the service is for families, freinds and neighbors across Eureka Springs to gather together and give thanks for the many blessings of their lives, according to association secretary Caren L. Holiday,...

A mistrial was declared late Thursday afternoon in circuit court action in Berryville in the "shaken baby" case against Arthur Joseph McFarland, 35, of rural Green Forest, who was charged with domestic battery in the first degree. After about three hours of deliberation, the jury sent a question to Circuit Judge Alan D. Epley concerning a videotape of an interview with McFarland conducted by Arkansas State Trooper Ted Grigson, who worked for the ASP's Crimes Against Children Unit...

A love of music is the driving force behind a new venture based in Berryville, the Carroll County Community Orchestra. There are very few communities of this size that can support such an undertaking, but the volunteer orchestra already has more than 25 skilled musicians, and is seeking more experienced players, according to organizer Chrystal Thompson...

GREEN FOREST ---- Skeletal remains discovered Oct. 13 in a Green Forest field have been identified as those of David Klutts, a 32-year-old Carroll County man who was reported missing by his family in late May. Green Forest Police Chief John Bailey said he was notified by the state medical examiner's office on Friday that the remains were positively identified as those belonging to David Klutts...

Recommendations to the Arkansas Legislature, from the Circuit Court Apportionment Commission, could have a significant effect on legal procedures in Carroll County's two courthouses. The recommendations, if adopted, would abolish dual county seats for the purpose of determining venue in circuit court, giving the option to hold court wherever in a judicial district is more efficient...

Long-time Carroll County attorney Lewis Epley, now residing in Fayetteville, received a very rare honor during the homecoming half-time show at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville last Saturday. Away from his customary seat in the south end zone in Don Reynolds Razorback Stadium, Epley was in a sky box when the Marching Razorback Band spelled out his name on the field, one of only three times in the last 35 years that it has been done for an individual...