Stories from Thursday, July 26, 2012

EUREKA SPRINGS -- The Eureka Springs School District is looking for an assistant superintendent, but the job has not been created yet and has not been budgeted. An open position notice was posted on the bulletin board at the administration office two weeks ago, said Cathy Martinek, administrative assistant to the superintendent. Also listed as an open position was "high school principal."...

GREEN FOREST -- The Green Forest Police Department and a K-9 unit from the Carroll County Sheriff's Office cooperated in the arrest of a fleeing man last week. GFPD Officer Todd Noftsger stopped a vehicle behind the Exxon station at about 10 p.m. on July 17. Moments later, he radioed that he was in foot pursuit of a subject who had fled from the vehicle...

EUREKA SPRINGS -- Carroll County residents demonstrated their passion for the written word at the kickoff of the Community Writing Program, which was hosted by the Writers' Colony Saturday. Thirty-seven writers and aspiring writers from Berryville, Holiday Island, Eureka Springs, and parts in between and beyond gathered to learn about the new opportunities to hone their writing skills...

CARROLL COUNTY -- Sheriff's deputies may have solved, at least in part, the case of the missing road signs. Carroll County sheriff's deputies were investigating a complaint on CR 420 late last week when investigators Daniel Klatt and Mark Bailey observed what appeared to be stolen Carroll County road signs hanging in the garage of a residence, they said. Sgt. Klatt obtained a search warrant for the residence, according to a press release from the Sheriff's Office...

Sen. Mark Pryor meets with school officials from Arkansas recently in Washington, D.C., to discuss the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Pictured are, from left, Maribel Childress of Springdale, Jimmy Cunningham of Hampton, Sen. Pryor, Eureka Springs Elementary School Principal Clare Lesieur of Holiday Island, Melanie Churchill of Jacksonville, and Benny Gooden of Fort Smith...

EUREKA SPRINGS -- Eureka Springs High School officials expect to add more students once the new 88,000-square-foot school building opens for students in January. Enrollment dropped by about 75 students in the previous school year. "We're having a campaign going on this summer and we have started gaining a few students," said Curtis Turner, Superintendent of the Eureka Springs School District. ...

RUSSELL POINT -- A homeowner in southern Carroll County burning a brush pile accidentally started a forest fire that burned 7.5 acres Tuesday before it was extinguished, officials said. On Tuesday at about 1:30 p.m. a call was received by the Carroll County 911 dispatch center regarding a forest fire that had escaped from a brush pile. Homeowners had lit the fire the previous night and left the area believing that the fire had burned itself out...