Stories from Friday, November 4, 2011

CARROLL COUNTY -- Voters statewide are headed to the polls to decide a bond issue to fund interstate highway restoration and improvement projects. Election day is Tuesday, Nov. 8, with all 14 polls open across the county from 7:30 a.m. until 7:30 p.m...

Photo submitted Members of the Carroll County T.R.E.K.S. 4-H Club recently predicted the weather by examining the parts of persimmon seeds. According to their prediction, lots of heavy, wet snow will fall in Carroll County this winter. Their prediction is based on the presence of a spoon shape in all of the 20 seeds they dissected. ...

The following people were booked into the Carroll County Detention Center Oct. 27 through Nov. 2 Oct. 27 Christina Ann Alexander, 25, Shell Knob, Mo., was booked in on a hold for another agency. Ronald Wayne Ellis, 25, Berryville, was booked in for residential burglary and theft of property...

Crescent Dragonwagon back at WCDH Author and former Eureka Springs resident, Crescent Dragonwagon, will be at the The Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow for the Poetluck on Thursday, Nov. 10. Fans are encouraged to come between 3:30 and 5:30 p.m. for a meet-and-greet with Crescent Dragonwagon, and to bring a dish to share at the monthly Poetluck potluck at 6:30 p.m. Dragonwagon will prepare some of her own favorite Nouveau'zarks recipes in the kitchen at Dairy Hollow to share at Poetluck...

The Eureka Springs' senior high basketball teams took to the road on Wednesday afternoon, but returned home with mixed results. The senior boys, however, emerged with a 51-33 victory. "We played well," head coach Nolan Helder said. "St. Paul is a very good team."...

Head coach Brian Rambo took his senior high girls to St. Paul on Wednesday, but was unable to take advantage of the opportunity, as they were defeated 46-28. "We played well," Rambo said. "We just couldn't get the points when we needed them." When the Saints came out and pressed the Eureka girls, it presented the team with a challenge...

On Sept. 9, I wrote that Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa may not return -- I was right and wrong. With the way that the team had been playing, along with his ongoing health issues, I thought that he would step down. He is stepping down, but for other reasons...