Stories from Friday, April 22, 2011

BERRYVILLE -- Growth in Berryville over the past 10 years has been steady and even, according to Census figures city leaders have looked at for redistricting purposes. Alderman Cindy George, at the city council meeting Tuesday evening, said she and Administrative Assistant Jay Lee looked at those figures and found that both of Berryville's voting wards had nearly the same amount of registered voters...

BERRYVILLE -- Senator Randy Laverty received high praise when the Board of Trustees with North Arkansas College met at its Carroll County Center campus last week. It was the first time for the board to host its monthly meeting at the Berryville campus -- Northark's satellite college facility that has received Laverty's staunch support...

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My family possesses a noticeable lack of creativity. At least it seems that way; because every time we gather --for a reunion, a holiday dinner, or what have you -- we always tell the same old family stories. I can recite them from memory. There is the yarn about my granddaddy shooting up White's Pool Hall one night, drunk as a wheelbarrow. Or the time my eighty-plus grandmother fearlessly pulled a snake barehanded out of the plumbing of my aunt's house...

Now that the Berryville baseball team has far exceeded its original goals, the Bobcats are turning their attention on going as far as they can in postseason play. With some fine play and a little luck, the Bobcats may be in good position heading into next week's 4A-1 Conference Tournament in Springdale...

The following people were booked into the Carroll County Detention Center April 14 through April 20:

MALCOLM L. "JAKE" CASTERLINE, a resident of Holiday Island, Arkansas, was born May 6, 1931 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania a son of Walter and Margaret (Kirtley) Casterline. He departed this life Monday, April 18, 2011 in Berryville, at the age of 79 years...