Stories from Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Juan Chavez of Green Forest became the county's first Hispanic to be sworn in as a chairman of a county council during Thursday night's quorum court meeting in Berryville. Chavez, who has resided in Carroll County for 14 years, will chair the county's Citizen Corps Council. While other Hispanics have been sworn in as deputies in various county departments, Chavez is the first to chair a county supervisory body...

GREEN FOREST ---- Four acres of land has been purchased on Butler Street for the construction of East View, a 20-unit apartment complex to be developed by the Carroll County Learning Center. Karla Gray, director of the Center, told the Green Forest City Council Monday night that land behind Smith Family Funeral Home was purchased and the center is arranging funding for construction, with a June start date possible...

Charlie Cross has been named Eureka Springs' "Person of the Year." The award was announced during the annual "Best of the Best" banquet Tuesday evening in the Crystal Dining Room at the Crescent Hotel. Cross, president of the Bank of Eureka Springs, was chosen by a vote of the residents of Eureka Springs...

Eureka Springs High School English teacher Kathy Remenar made it into the "Final Four" to qualify for the Arkansas Teacher of the Year competition last week. She was selected as the Eureka Springs Teacher of the Year in the fall, then became a regional winner, one of 15...

Approval for the final draft of Holiday Island's golf course improvement plan was put on hold Monday as the Board of Commissioners asked Golf Course Superintendent Mark Mowrey to seek outside professional assistance. Mowrey presented the five-year plan, which shows $150,000' worth of improvements spread out equally over five years from 2005-09...

Trying to conclude all of this year's business in one day, the Holiday Island Suburban Improvement District (HISID) Board of Commissioners met Monday in both a morning work session and afternoon special meeting to discuss and vote on several issues...

They stand silent, these crosses, all 1,260 of them, representing the soldiers who have lost their lives in the Iraq war. Each is unique, just like the men and women they represent. Standing among the hundreds of hand-tied crosses is one for Michael Goins, a Carroll County man who lost his life on August 15 in Najaf, Iraq...

BERRYVILLE ---- Herbert L. Pharis, an Army veteran who was wounded in the decisive Battle of the Bulge in World War II, was presented with the Bronze Star for distinguished service last Thursday, Dec. 9, for his action nearly 60 years ago, before he was hit by German sniper fire...