Stories from Sunday, June 10, 2012

BERRYVILLE -- Community Blood Center of the Ozarks has issued a Code Yellow Alert for all negative blood types. There is less than a two day supply of this type of blood on hospital shelves. Your donation is needed to help replenish the supply. It takes over 275 donations every day to meet the needs of the thirty-eight area hospitals that use CBCO products. CBCO will be holding drives at the following locations this week:...

EUREKA SPRINGS -- In a special meeting Tuesday, the Eureka Springs School Board approved the hire of five new teachers for the high school and offered a laid-off teacher a position at the middle school. High school principal Kathryn Lavender recommended the five teachers at the start of the meeting. The school board went into executive session for an hour and returned to approve her recommendations...

BERRYVILLE -- The Berryville City Council began condemnation procedures for the second time on a pair of homes that were burned in arson fires just weeks apart in late 2011. The houses at 304 E. Freeman and 319 Pritchard have been through this procedure once already, but a change of ownership and promises to remedy the situation had stalled the process for a while...

HUNTSVILLE -- Withrow Springs State Park will offer kids and teens the opportunity to explore nature, investigate history, and make memories through art, demonstrations, experiments, and adventures for three days this summer at two day camp sessions...

Nicole Clark of Porterfield Killingsworth CPA in Berryville and Cindy L. George of Berryville recently attended the Arkansas Society of Certified Public Accountants 2012 Accounting and Auditing Conference held May 30-31 at the Big Cedar Lodge in Ridgedale, Mo., near Branson...