Stories from Thursday, August 18, 2005

by David McNeal Boy oh boy, does the football action in the 1AAA Conference look exciting this year. After watching the two high school teams in Carroll County practice for the past two weeks, I'm ready for the games to begin. For those who haven't been out to any of the practices of the Tigers and Bobcats, both squads should make an impact in the 1AAA race. Question is, who else seems destined for the top spot?...

CARROLL COUNTY -- Five new coaches are on the job in Carroll County schools as the 2005-06 school year nears. There are two new faces and one familiar one that have joined the Berryville coaching staff as the 2005-06 school year approaches. At Green Forest, a former All-State and SEC performer is on board. And the Eureka Springs Higlanders have a new head boys basketball coach...

Week of Aug. 8 August 8 3:00 p.m. -- Police investigated a mailbox bashing. 8:10 p.m. -- Police made a traffic stop for a speeder who had a medical emergency. August 9 5:45 p.m. -- Police investigated a pick-up truck hitting a mail box. August 10 8:30 a.m. -- Police investigated a child custody complaint. It was a civil matter...

Week of Aug. 8 August 8 10:22 a.m.-- Incident report taken on theft of flamingos from hotel. 11:15 a.m.-- CCSO reported they were attempting to locate subject with felony warrants driving between Berryville and Eureka Springs. 1:04 p.m.-- Accident report taken on minor incident at lodge...

Week of Aug. 8 Aug. 8 8:00 a.m. -- Officer responded to an attempted breaking and entering at Stubbs Grocery and assisted the detective. 11:35 a.m. -- Officer referred a subject with a problem to small claims court. 10:20 p.m. -- Officer was dispatched to the Sheriff's Office to take photos of a subject involved in a fight in Missouri. Subject went to the hospital...

MAVA MAE WATSON, a retired secretary and a resident of Baker, La., was born May 15, 1927, in Berryville, and died Monday, July 4, 2005, at her home. She is survived by her ex-husband, Harry C. Watson, Jr.; three sons, Michael A. Watson of Baton Rouge, La., Ronald W. and his wife, Nancy Watson, of Williams, Ariz., and Leslie M. Watson of Baker; and three grandsons, Tyler Watson, Wesley Watson and Cody Watson, the children of Ronald and Nancy Watson...

Staff Sergeant Bud Russell, born July 6, 1955, in Amarillo, Tex., a former resident of Green Forest and Osage, died Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2005, at his home in Waldron, Ark. He is survived by his wife, Donna Kay (Connell) Russell of the home; one son, Michael Russell and his wife, Dawnica, of Berryville; one daughter, Courtney Hayes and her husband, Ryan, and grandson, Hiram, of Springfield, Mo.; his parents, Tommy and Peggy Russell; three brothers, Scott Russell and his wife, Sandra, and Derrick Russell, all of Green Forest, Shane Russell and his wife, Michelle, of Branson, Mo.; and one sister, Robyn Goodman and her husband Tim, of Green Forest; a grandfather, Ben McCoy of Berryville; and a host of nieces, nephews, family and friends.. ...

JESSIE CORRINE REINOSO, a resident of Green Forest, was born Aug. 9, 1934, in Red Bluff, Calif., a daughter of Jess C. and Anita (Jaquez) Cooper. She died Saturday, Aug. 6, 2005, in Berryville, at the age of 70. Jessie was a homemaker. She was of the Pentecostal faith...

ARNOLD "BUD" BAKER, 68, of Shell Knob, Mo., died Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2005, in Cave Springs, Ark., while staying with his daughter. He was born Oct. 25, 1936, in Dunlap, Iowa to Leo Baker and Viola Thompson Baker. Bud graduated from Dunlap High School, class of 1955; was a football letterman, and played the trumpet in the school band. He served in the U.S. Army and was a member of American Legion Post #0788 in Shell Knob, and attended Iowa Western Community College...

Stone County, Mo., has a water quality issue that can't be seen but refuses to go away. Carroll County -- Stone County's neighbor south of Table Rock Lake -- has a water quality issue that can't be seen but refuses to go away. How the two counties have addressed the water quality issue is of interest to everyone concerned with getting it right and fixing what's wrong with our water...

In the age of fancy digital cameras and video- and camera-phones, who would want to go back to using the kind of cameras used in the 1800s (and some say even earlier)? Ron Lutz of Eureka Springs would -- and does. His profession is photography and his hobby is pinhole cameras...

A high-speed pursuit with speeds reaching 100 mph ended with the death of 38-year-old Oscar Lopez of Berryville, who crashed the pickup he was driving on a county road south of Berryville Friday evening. Injured in the accident were two passengers in the Lopez vehicle: 51-year-old Arthur Montoya of Berryville, and four-year-old Edgar Cornego, also of Berryville. Both are recovering...

EUREKA SPRINGS -- City business owners got some unwanted "art" last week as vandals spray-painted buildings, buses and parking meters with vulgar language and cryptic messages. By Monday morning, three arrests had been made, according to Eureka Springs Police Detective Morris Pate...