Stories from Sunday, December 18, 2011

EUREKA SPRINGS -- City council held a workshop Dec. 8 to begin work on putting together a budget for 2012, and plans to hear from each department head before they approve a budget before the end of January 2012. Planning Commission Chairman Beverly Blankenship offered observations about the budget to council, saying she has learned in workshops put on by the Municipal League that a city budget is different from the budget of a business. ...

Paola Arrizon reached for a gift while sitting in Santa's lap when he visited the Carroll County Learning Center in Berryville. Santa was there with his elves to distribute gifts to 162 youngsters at the center and another 20 gifts to young adults participating in the Learning Center program. Members of Holiday Island Elks Lodge #1042 coordinate the effort each year...

EUREKA SPRINGS -- "She has a wonderful disposition. She's already very protective, and none of our other dogs are," said Bev Wright of Babe, a dog she and husband, Jim, adopted from the Good Shepherd Humane Society shelter a month ago. Babe's story begins with a harrowing tale: someone dumped her, pregnant, into the middle of Table Rock Lake in mid-September...