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Easter Services Planned
(Community News ~ 03/30/12)
Easter celebrations are important days to Christians around the world. The Berryville Alliance of Churches seeks to provide opportunities for all Christians to celebrate the sacrifice and victory of our Lord Jesus. The Berryville Alliance is composed of the United Methodist Church, the First Christian Church, Community of Christ, Church of the Nazarene, and the Little Portion Monastery...
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Bible readers needed
(Community News ~ 03/30/12)
This year's 3rd Annual Bible Reading Marathon will be one of many simultaneously going on across the nation. The goal is to encourage people of all ages from all over Carroll County to join together in having all of God's word read aloud on the Berryville Public Square, starting on Sunday, April 29, with Genesis 1:1 and continuing through Revelation until the entire Bible is read aloud, culminating on Thursday, May 3, the National Day of Prayer...
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Three evenings of "Eternity" coming to Berryville
(Community News ~ 03/30/12)
Take a dramatic journey through eternity this month at the Berryville United Methodist Church. Evangelists Aaron and Jeanette Pack will soon bring the drama "Eternity" to Carroll County. "Eternity" takes you on an amazing journey. First you will visit Heaven, where you will see the joyful saints entering with white robes and crowns, reunited with loved ones, and praising God with harps and vials...
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Climbing the corporate ladder, a round trip
(Community News ~ 03/30/12)
While reflecting on the coming Holy Week, I remembered one of my favorite stories. It is a mythical tale written by author, professor, Harley-Davidson rider, and pastor, Robert R. Kopp. As Pastor Robert tells it, a young man named Walter went to work for the largest corporation in the world. The personnel director told Walter he must start at the bottom and work his way up, for that is the way one succeeds...
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Green Forest schools wrestling with rezoning (Local News ~ 03/30/12)
GREEN FOREST -- Rezoning in light of the 2010 census occupied Green Forest School Board members at Monday night's meeting. Two of the zones in the district had slight population increases between 2000 and 2010. According to state code 6-13-631, a district with a minority population greater than 10 percent needs to keep the population differences of each zone of the district within 10 percent of each other... -
Tyson's plant forced to close
(Local News ~ 03/30/12)
Wastewater plant can't pinpoint cause in reading spikes
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Careening car takes out statuary, misses people (Local News ~ 03/30/12)
A car less well built than this 1999 Malibu, and its driver, may not have fared as well when they shot over the embankment onto the walkway at St. Elizabeth's Church on Sunday. As it was, Joseph Meuser was able to be helped from the scene uninjured... -
Carroll County Jail Log
(Local News ~ 03/30/12)
The following people were booked into the Carroll County Detention Center March 22 through March 28: March 22 Tony Lynn Evans, 40, Berryville, was booked in for public intoxication. Christopher Lee McKean, 40, Eureka Springs, was booked in for possession of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance with purpose to deliver, possession of drug paraphernalia, driving on a suspended/revoked license, and driving left of center...
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Two Berryville boys expelled
(Local News ~ 03/30/12)
BERRYVILLE -- Two male students were expelled for the remainder of the school year for undisclosed reasons when the Berryville Board of Education met Monday night. Special hearings were scheduled prior to the regular board meeting to give the students, their parents or representatives an opportunity to plead their cases...
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Pesticide training April 5
(Local News ~ 03/30/12)
The Carroll County Extension Service has a Private Applicator Training Workshop scheduled for Thursday, April 5, beginning at 6 p.m. Space is limited so please call (870) 423-2958 to reserve a seat by April 4. Attending one of these training workshops is required by the Arkansas State Plant Board before a person can obtain a private applicators license. ...
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US. Hwy. 62 widening (Local News ~ 03/30/12)
Work has begun on the U.S. Hwy. 62 widening project west of Berryville that was first announced nearly three years ago when residents were invited to share their comments regarding the proposed route. Now that utilities have been moved out of the way, construction has begun to widen 2.8 miles, from Brashears Furniture in Berryville to the Outpost west of town. ... -
A tasty visit (Local News ~ 03/30/12)
Crescent Dragonwagon signs a copy of her new book, "Bean to Bean," at a book signing event Sunday at The Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow. Acquaintances and fans gathered in the afternoon in Eureka Springs, Dragonwagon's home for roughly 30 years, for a talk and a taste of some recipes from her new book... -
Cravings the place to go to satisfy that sweet tooth (Local News ~ 03/30/12)
Those who've missed the Lovin' Oven will be happy to hear the Eureka Springs Chamber of Commerce has announced a ribbon cutting and goodie-sampling at the new Cravings Bakery and Blingery in the Gaskins' Switch Mall on Van Buren at 5:30 p.m. on April 2... -
Kenneth Paul Williams
(Obituary ~ 03/30/12)
Kenneth Paul Williams, a resident of Berryville, AR, was born Oct. 23, 1946 in Monticello, AR, a son of Paul and Melba Inez (Epperson) Williams. He departed this life Tuesday, Mar. 27, 2012 in his home in Berryville, at the age of 65 years. Kenneth was a lifeline coordinator for Region Services. He graduated from the University of Arkansas with a bachelor's degree...
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Madeline Claire Coburn (Obituary ~ 03/30/12)
Madeline Claire Coburn, a resident of Berryville, AR, was born Mar. 17, 1935 in Vineyard Haven, MA, a daughter of Manuel and Mary (DeCosta) King. She departed this life Thursday, Mar. 22, 2012 in her home in Berryville, at the age of 77 years. Madeline worked as a line worker for Tyson Foods in Green Forest... -
Patric Loy Miller
(Obituary ~ 03/30/12)
Patric Loy Miller, a resident of Berryville, AR, was born Nov. 4, 1959 in Huntsville, AR, a son of Edward Louis Sr. and Wanda Austin Miller. He departed this life Friday, Mar. 23, 2012 in his home in Berryville, at the age of 52 years. Patric enjoyed playing the guitar, working on computers, fishing, camping, crocheting and shooting...
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Walter Roberts Swindells (Obituary ~ 03/30/12)
Walter Roberts Swindells, 92, who came to Eureka Springs in 1972 from Florida "by way of New York, Texas and California," sometime managing editor of The Anglican Digest (1974-1981) and founding editor (Old Stubby Fingers) of the Anglican News Exchange (1978-1985), died Mar. 23, 2012...
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