Stories from Wednesday, November 10, 2004

In another extended session, the Eureka Springs City Council gave first readings to ordinances covering noise, sidewalks, special events, reinstating the city clerk's job to full-time; appointed a new commissioner for the City Advertising and Promotion Commission (CAPC) and heard proposed changes in the definition of "gift shops' for the CAPC Monday evening...

One man walked into the Eureka Springs Arvest Bank on Highway 62/23 south Saturday morning, presented a note to the teller and walked out with approximately $1,400 in cash in the first "live" bank robbery here in many years. On July 31, two men placed a fake deposit box at the drive-up station at the Bank of Eureka Springs, across the highway, and got away with deposited funds. They did not interact with bank employees or customers...

Johnson Troillett Architecture of Eureka Springs has been named for an Honor Design Award for the renovation of The Round House on North Main. The award was presented Friday evening, Nov. 5, during the Annual State Convention of the Arkansas Chapter of The American Institute of Architects at the Fort Smith Convention Center...

The Holiday Island Suburban Improvement District (HISID) will not have a "balanced" budget in 2005, but at least it will be able to stay close to its hoped-for projected loss, if the Board of Commissioners implements changes discussed at Friday's budget work session...

BERRYVILLE ---- Election results were not certified Monday as planned, after a computer glitch was discovered that skewed results from the JP District 2 race between Rocky Whitely and Duane Coatney The glitch was discovered by Carroll County Election Commission members when they met to certify election results Monday at the Berryville courthouse...

Authorities dismantled four meth labs over the past several days, bringing the total number of labs confiscated by the county this year to 33. Lab number 30 was found Thursday after a citizen reported seeing an abandoned lab in a field near a home in the northeast portion of Carroll County. According to authorities, no arrests were made but the investigation is continuing...

Two Berryville men were implicated in a cattle rustling operation that reportedly involved the theft of cows from Harrison to Oklahoma. Brent Lesley Foster, 19 and Chance Ryan Biggerstaff, were arrested along with a 23-year-old Harrison man, Doyle Ray Scrivner...

BERRYVILLE ---- Medical imaging has reached new heights at St. John's Hospital ---- Berryville. The entire x-ray department has been updated to include equipment that is less than two years old. The latest arrival, however, has the staff excited. A brand new, $325,000 fluoroscope arrived Oct. 25 and the first patient benefited from its advanced technology two days later...