Stories from Friday, February 23, 2007

HOLIDAY ISLAND -- More than 80 choir singers will join to present a Church Choir Festival on Sunday, March 11, at 4 p.m. The free concert will be at the Holiday Island Community Church, 188 Stateline Drive. Participating are the church choirs of Holiday Island Community Church, First Presbyterian Churches of Holiday Island and of Eureka Springs, the First United Methodist Churches of Eureka Springs and of Green Forest along with some interested individuals...

EUREKA SPRINGS -- Cast Registration for the 2007 season for The Great Passion Play in Eureka Springs will be held on Sunday, March 11. from 2 to 3:30 p.m. on the grounds of The Great Passion Play. The 2007 season is April 27 through Oct. 27. Men, women and children five years of age and older are needed for this year's cast...

GREEN FOREST -- A major break in the counterfeit money case, in which more than 20 fake bills surfaced since late December 2006, came when Green Forest police officers arrested a Berryville man for driving on a suspended license. On Sunday, Green Forest Police Sgt. Brad Handley and Officer Shannon Hill made a traffic stop on South Springfield Avenue which resulted in the arrest of Anthony Brian Delgado, 42...

HOLIDAY ISLAND -- At a special meeting held Feb. 19, the Holiday Island Board of Commissioners (BOC) approved the first reading of Reg. 14, Amendment #2, establishing sewer rates to fund debt service on the construction of the new wastewater treatment plant...

BERRYVILLE -- State education officials have approved construction plans and money amounts for the four main building projects at Berryville Schools, but not the proposed K-2 physical education facility. Superintendent Mike Cox said the K-2 building won't be allowed because of "space calculations" used by the state to determine necessity. ...

Hugh Morris "Cotton" Hyde, 84, who was retired as a traffic engineer with the Florida Department of Transportation, died Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007. Memorial services were held at Lafayette Presbyterian Church in Tallahassee, Fla., with burial at Tallahassee Memory Gardens on Monday, Jan. 29, 2007...

RENA CHARLENE PINKLEY, a resident of Berryville, was born Jan. 12, 1927, in Brushy Creek, Ark., a daughter of William Bradford and Cannie Corsie (Harvison) Lee. She died Friday, Feb. 16, 2007, in Berry?ville, at the age of 80. She is survived by her three sons, Gary and wife Lori Pinkley of Tucson, Ariz., Dale and wife Pam Pinkley of Rogers, and Dennis and wife Christine Pinkley of Rogers; seven grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews; and a host of family and friends...

SPRINGDALE -- The Northwest Arkansas Senior Babe Ruth league will hold an organizational meeting Wednesday, March 7, at the Jones Center (St. Louis room) in Springdale starting at 7 p.m. Scott Burnett, league president, said, "We're looking forward to a great season based off a very competitive 2006 year, possibly the largest returning groups of high school varsity players in years, and league growth (four new teams -- Pea Ridge, Rogers, Boone County, and Farmington, already verbally committed) -- to finish the season in August, the Babe Ruth 16-year-old World Series in Bentonville, of which our league was offered an automatic entry just this week from the National office.. ...