Stories from Tuesday, November 13, 2012

TOP: The day was all about veterans at Green Forest schools' Veterans Day Assembly last Friday. The honored guests were veterans and their guests, seated on the floor level of the Grim Gymnasium, surrounded by a sea of young faces. As part of his presentation to the student body, retired Air Force Maj. ...

CARROLL COUNTY -- Carroll County Justices of the Peace are forecasting a symphony of growling stomachs -- and, perhaps, some grumbling voices -- at this Friday's meeting of the Quorum Court. The monthly rendezvous promises to be one of the longest of the year, with tax rates to be approved, money to be moved about, and -- looming over all -- consideration of the 2013 budget...

CARROLL COUNTY -- In addition to the budget, Carroll County Justices of the Peace will consider a number of other issues at Friday's meeting of the Quorum Court, including an ordinance that would freeze the salaries of elected officials through 2014...

HOLIDAY ISLAND -- Area residents attended a brief Veterans Day service Saturday hosted by American Legion Post 36 at the Pavilion in the Veterans Memorial Park in Holiday Island, with speaker Mike Mercer, pastor of Beaver Lake Baptist Church. Mercer's talk focused on thanking veterans and those currently in the military for their service. ...

BERRYVILLE -- Agents at the Farm Bureau in Berryville have been named part of Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield's Preferred Agent Network, which recognizes top producing, independent agents and brokers. The preferred agents include: Mike D. Ragland, Marty D. Riley and Sandra D. Giles...

EUREKA SPRINGS -- Joe Edwards of Cabot, Ark. has purchased the Brownstone Inn at the end of North Main and plans to reopen it in early spring. The inn was formerly operated as a bed and breakfast, but he's just going to offer lodging. "We're going to put it back as an inn," Edwards said...

We at Carroll County News have pledged to run every letter to the editor we receive -- as long as it does not contain statements we know to be untrue and as long as it does not libel anyone. We also have heard a few murmurs around the county similar to the gist of the letter below, so we decided to publish portions of this reader's letter as well as our response to the writer...

Editor's note: The last portion of this article was inadvertently left out of the print version of the Nov. 13 Midweek edition of the Carroll County News; we apologize for the inconvenience and reprint the article here. When people think of veterans, they often think of warriors, but Hurricane Sandy offers just the latest reminder of the significant humanitarian and often times life-saving work performed by our veterans on a daily basis...

GREEN FOREST -- Creative Writing teachers Ashton Villines and Dawn Anderson, along with 11 of their students, hosted Green Forest's first National Day on Writing Write Around on Friday, Oct. 19 in the school's media center. Eleven students manned seven stations, which allowed all high school students and teachers an opportunity to visit two different stations during their English Language Arts class time...

Berryville's Emily Trowbridge and Green Forest's Tara Harrell helped the West beat the East in Saturday's North Central Volleyball Association All-Star Game.

Berryville freshman Oliver Perez placed third individually and helped the Bobcats to a 5th-place finish in the Class 4A state cross country meet at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs.

HOT SPRINGS -- Fountain Lake capitalized on some early Green Forest miscues, striking for three first-quarter scores, to end the Tigers season in the first round of the Arkansas Activities Association Class 3A playoffs. The Cobras (10-2) scored all of their points in the first half, extending to a 51-6 lead at intermission before substituting the entire second half, a trend the Cobras set during the season...

HOT SPRINGS -- Berryville's Oliver Perez turned in a third-place performance and the Eureka Springs boys claimed second in the Class 1A-2A division at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, host site of Saturday's cross country state meet. Perez ran a time of 17:24.9, 14 seconds out of second place and less than a minute behind race winner Carter Shelton of Valley View (16:37.3)...