Stories from Saturday, July 28, 2012

UPDATED -- HOLIDAY ISLAND -- In what might be "pie in the sky" hopes, Holiday Island departmental staff turned in their preliminary wish lists for more than $600,000 in capital improvements in the 2013 budget Monday. "Right now, we're $867,000 short in assessments," said Commissioner Ken Ames, referring to payments that would normally be made by this time of year after the assessment billing went out in March. ...

HOLIDAY ISLAND -- Along with a change order on this year's road paving program, the topic of replacing the district office's roof will be on the agenda for Monday's Board of Commissioners business meeting. The roof was one of the capital projects built into the budget this year, with $25,000 set aside for it. ...

HOLIDAY ISLAND -- Holiday Island's search for new accounting software that will satisfy the concerns of auditors and staff about consistency of general ledger entries may be put on hold until mid-year 2013. Reporting to fellow commissioners at Monday's work session, committee member Linda Graves said the Ad Hoc Software Committee had met twice and come up with a scope and approach to pursuing new software...

HOLIDAY ISLAND -- Holiday Island residents need to know that traffic will be affected during The Eurekan Triathlon event, now in its second year. All legs of the Triathlon will be held in Holiday Island, with a 300-yard swim, a seven-mile bike ride and a two-mile run...

Editor's note: As Arkansas is experiences a severe drought along with a problematic national economy CCN reader Kathryn Farwell recently explored her father's memories of both the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl periods, which he survived as a youngster living in Carroll County. Following are Wayne Farwell's recollections of Carroll County during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl era...

HOLIDAY ISLAND -- Holiday Island residents need to know that traffic will be affected during The Eurekan Triathlon event, now in its second year. All legs of the Triathlon will be held in Holiday Island, with a 300-yard swim, a seven-mile bike ride and a two-mile run...

Bluegrass lovers can look forward to another three full days of music and fun during Eureka Springs' annual Bluegrass Festival happening Friday, Aug. 17 through Sunday, Aug. 19. The Bluegrass Festival kicks off on Friday, Aug. 17, in Basin Spring Park in downtown Eureka Springs, with the traditional Watermelon Social at 5:30 p.m. with free watermelon while Tulsa-based string band Grass Crack performs, followed by the HillBenders...

EUREKA SPRINGS -- "The Civil War Came to Carroll County" is the topic for a series of programs the first four Thursdays in August as part of the observation of the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War. History books do not chronicle many of the small battles or skirmishes that were fought across the country from 1861-1865, yet almost every small town or village was touched by some aspect of the war...