Stories from Wednesday, March 14, 2012

EUREKA SPRINGS -- The Eureka Springs School Board will meet a half-hour early this month, at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 15, so that the superintendent search firm McPherson & Jacobson can give a presentation at 5:30 p.m. On the agenda under new business is a vote to accept a student transfer into the school system, an update on the new high school construction project, approval of the school calendar, an executive session and approval of committees...

Heithe Williams of Berryville and his American Quarter Horse, WJ Poco Harley (Buck), a 2004 buckskin gelding, captured the world championship title in amateur cowboy mounted shooting pistols at the 2012 American Quarter Horse Association Cowboy Mounted World Championship Show on March 3 in Houston. ...

On Sunday, May 20, the seventh edition of Northwest Arkansas' own homegrown literary festival will again blossom in the conservatory and in the gardens of the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs. With more authors scheduled to attend than ever before, this year's Books in Bloom offers up something for nearly every taste. ...