Stories from Monday, February 13, 2012

As the ambient temperature dropped into the low 20s, the first Mardi Gras night parade kicked off in Eureka Springs. Rolling through the downtown corridor at 6 p.m. with floats blasting boom boom Mardi Gras music, they were decorated to the hilt in flashing lights...

EUREKA SPRINGS -- When the Eureka Springs School Board meets Thursday, it will hear an update from McPherson & Jacobson, LLC, on the search for a new superintendent. The firm held a series of meetings Feb. 6 with "stakeholder" groups to give input on what they would like to see in a superintendent...

Versie Virginia Kimes, a resident of Berryville, AR was born Sept. 8, 1919 in Arlberg, AR, a daughter of Humbert LaFayette andAnnie Belle (Davidson) Duncan. She departed this life Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012 in Rogers, AR, at the age of 92 years. She was a member of the Southern Heights Baptist Church. ...

BERRYVILLE -- Jack Rogers found his Valentine in a Colorado Springs tavern while serving in the U.S. Army at Fort Carson. It was love at first sight and he proposed almost immediately. The year was 1972, he remembered, and he had gone into town where he found her sitting alone in a bar listening to Johnny Paycheck perform...

Carroll County 4-H Leadership Club installed new officers recently. They include Amanda McCullough, club treasurer, (from left), Rachel Edwards, club secretary, Ashleigh McCullough, club president, and Clare Doss, club reporter. Not pictured are Samantha Richter, club vice-president, and Patti Finch, club photographer...