Stories from Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Two boys drowned Saturday during a family outing to the Ponca Low Water Bridge on the Buffalo National River. Hunter Taylor, 8, and Dustin Taylor, 12, of Kingston, were last seen "bobbing up and down" in the water upstream of the bridge about 8:15 p.m. while trying to retrieve the eight-year-old's swimming trunks. When the brothers failed to resurface, their nine-year-old brother went for help...

BERRYVILLE -- Thirty pounds and counting. That's the amount of hair the stylists at Attitudes Beauty Salon in Berryville have shipped off to help with the Gulf Coast oil spill disaster. "At Attitudes, we are collecting all the hair that is cut as part of a national effort to use human hair to sop up the growing oil spill off the coast," said stylist April Hernandez...

BERRYVILLE -- The 25th Annual Berryville Ice Cream Social is set for this Friday and Saturday, June 11-12 on the historic Public Square. The theme for this year's social is "Takin' Licks Since '86," referring to 1986, the first year Berryville hosted the event...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article about Berryville choir teacher Judy Bohannon's reasons for leaving the school. She described a climate of interference and harassment by administration officials. Naturally, it didn't take long for someone to ask me, "What about the way they ran off Bobby Bishop?" The former football coach found another job in Missouri, after the administration told him he would have to teach an additional class. ...

The Carroll County Libraries invite all budding scientists to conjure foggy dry ice storms, watch a foam factory at work, create super bouncy balls, and alter sound waves with Steve Cox, the Mad Scientist of Northwest Arkansas. It is their kick-off program for a whole summer of "Splash into Reading" fun...

BERRYVILLE -- Members of the Berryville Kiwanis Club will be busy both Friday and Saturday selling bratwurst dinners on the Berryville Public Square and hosting a fishing derby at George Pond. At the Berryville Ice Cream Social, grilled bratwurst dinners will be available for $5, with delivery on Friday offered -- if orders are placed early by calling (870) 423-2535...

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