Stories from Thursday, April 5, 2012

Holiday Island Board of Commissioners Chairman Linda Griswold receives a check for $45,000 from Carroll County Judge Sam Barr at last Monday's board meeting for the community's road paving program. The judge has committed this payment as a line item in the county budget for the last three years. The money will be set aside for next year's road paving, while the same amount from last year will be used for this year's program...

Anna Mathews, Carroll County Newspapers' longest-serving member of its newsroom staff, has retired after 17 years of covering Carroll County from one end to the other. Taking up the reins covering eastern Carroll County news is Eddie Keever, most recently an announcer for KTHS radio in Berryville...

Native Texan Daniel Coy poses beside his chair, The Planets, on Sunday evening at the Best Western Inn of the Ozarks Convention Center. Coy's chair was one of six up for auction, along with 124 other items, for the Eureka Springs School of the Arts (ESSA) 7th Annual ReArt chairity fundraiser. One hundred percent of the proceeds from the night's auction go into funding ESSA projects...