Stories from Friday, July 24, 2009

GREEN FOREST -- The school board postponed a decision on whether or not to grant waivers to allow students transferring to compete immediately in athletics. At a meeting Monday night, the board heard from two parents whose children will attend school this fall in Berryville under the state's school choice program...

The Army Corps of Engineers will begin making releases through the hydropower turbines at Beaver Dam today (Friday) to bring Beaver Lake down about five feet to the top of the conservation pool, the Corps announced this week. The high level of the lake was caused by repeated rains during the spring and early summer of 2009...

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Carl Edward Asbury, a resident of Green Forest, AR, was born April 30, 1920 in Treece, KS, a son of George and Edna (Moulder) Asbury. He departed this life Friday, July 17, 2009 in Shell Knob, MO at the age of 89. He was a veteran who served our country in the U. S. Army during WWII...

LITTLE ROCK -- Jigs are tried and true utensils for catching fish of many species in Arkansas, from trout requiring tiny jigs to lead-heavy ones used for striped bass. In crappie fishing, many of Arkansas's better crappie anglers use only jigs. They wouldn't touch a live minnow with the proverbial 10-foot pole. These folks catch a heck of a lot of crappie, often when others strike out...

BERRYVILLE -- "Stimulus" food is making its way to area residents by way of the Obama administration's American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009. The Act added many more food items to both the Emergency Food Assistance Program and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program within the USDA commodity distribution...

BERRYVILLE -- The City of Berryville received 100 percent of what it requested for ice storm cleanup from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. All it awaits now is reimbursement from the state, which is expected to follow shortly. The news was well received when the Berryville City Council met Tuesday night...