Stories from Wednesday, November 24, 2004

by David McNeal Man, the winter sports scene is exploding around here. The Eureka Springs senior high basketball teams have already played eight games, with both sporting identical 4-4 records. The Berryville senior high basketball teams started their seasons with a roar as they defeated both Springs, Eureka and Valley last week, to go 2-0...

Even though it was the eighth game for both Eureka Springs senior high basketball teams, it was the Berryville Bobcats and Lady Bobcats that took home victories on their opening night last Thursday. Coach Matt Carter's Lady Bobcats (1-0) used their height and depth to wear the Lady Highlanders (4-4) down on the way to a 68-49 win in their first game this season...

It was brutal last Friday night, as two very good football teams slugged it out in the cold and mud of Tiger Stadium to see who would advance to the quarterfinal round of the Class AAA State Football playoffs. At the end, it was classic Green Forest Tiger football, hard-nosed and grinding, as the Tigers ate up the last 6:38 of the game clock to take a 14-6 victory over the Fountain Lake Cobras...

Week of Nov. 17 November 17 1:17 p.m. ---- Police called the water office to report a leak on Sneed Street. 10:50 p.m. ---- Police transported a suspect wanted on a warrant to jail following a traffic stop. November 20 3:35 a.m. ---- Police were dispatched to a South Thorne Street home to investigate a loud music complaint. The music was turned down...

Week of Nov. 15 November 15 5:32 a.m. ---- Extra patrol was provided at the new jail construction site. 2:57 p.m. ---- Officers responded to skateboarders in the street at Saunders Heights, asking them to stop and noting that it was too dark and dangerous...

Week of Nov. 15 November 15 9:01 a.m. -- Wall St. resident reported hearing what sounded like gunshots near Amity St. Officer checked area, but could not hear any gunshots. 9:31 a.m. -- Officer retrieved dog running loose in traffic on Main St. 11:02 a.m. - Incident report taken on harassing phone calls at subject's place of business...

BLAKE ALAN TAYLOR infant son of Tammy Jo (Franklin) Taylor and Terry Chaney died Sunday, Nov. 14, 2004, in his home at the age of 5 weeks. He was born Oct. 5, 2004, in Rogers. He is survived by his mother, Tammy Taylor of Berryville; his father, Terry Chaney of Berryville; three sisters, Alexandrea Franklin, Bailey Taylor and Emma Taylor; grandparents, Ron and Alice Edwards of Shell Knob, Mo. ...

Grace Marie (Ownbey) Rose, 87, died on Friday, Oct. 22, 2004, in Olympia, Wash. She was born June 20, 1917, in Green Forest, the daughter of John Wesley Ownbey and Janie Ward Ownbey. On Oct. 17, 1944, she married a fellow Green Forest resident, James Albert Rose. After his discharge from active military duty, they moved to Los Angeles, Calif., where they remained for years. They moved to Olympia, Wash., in 1988...

We love Thanksgiving for its televised holiday parades with huge balloons and marching bands, for its wall-to-wall football and, of course, we love this holiday for the endless procession of platters from the kitchen, piled high with foodstuffs which we proceed to scarf down in multiple helpings...

GREEN FOREST ----Maintenance, custodial and food service employees at the Green Forest School were given two extra paid holidays each year ---- the day after Thanksgiving and a day yet to be determined. The Green Forest Board of Education approved the recommendation when it met Nov. 16. Once okayed by the Personnel Policy Committee, maintenance and custodial workers will have nine paid holidays each year, and food service will have four...

GREEN FOREST ---- A fight on the Green Forest town square Saturday night resulted in the arrest of 26-year-old Eduardo Lopez, of Berryville, who allegedly hit one man in the head with a beer bottle and attacked a police officer. Sgt. Brad Handley said he noticed a fight in front of the Brew and Cue tavern while patrolling about 11 p.m...

GREEN FOREST ---- Authorities seized their 34th meth lab of the year last week and charged Kenneth Shane Fultz, 26, of Green Forest with the crime. Fultz was apprehended Thursday by Cpl. Gaylon Riggs after the Boone County Prosecutor's Office asked Green Forest Police to pick up Fultz on a drug-related warrant from that county...