Stories from Wednesday, June 12, 2013

BERRYVILLE -- A half-cent city sales tax has been extended by voters in paltry turnout during a special election on Tuesday in Berryville. Ninety-two residents of 2,062 eligible Berryville voters cast their ballots to decide whether to extend a special half-cent sales tax, or about 4.5 percent of eligible voters -- fewer than half the number that turned out for the city's 2011 special sales tax election...

The Berryville Public Library will be hosting several summer programs for adults to children in the coming months. All the programs are free of charge and will take place at the Berryville Public Library, 104 Spring St., Berryville, AR 72616. For more information visit the website www.carrollmadisonlibraries.org or call 870-423-2323...

Editor's note: Following is a guest commentary by Dr. Luis Contreras of Eureka Springs, in response to a report published in last Friday's Carroll County News. That report failed to take into account the statistical margin of error in census reports, and therefore mistakenly reported that Carroll County's 2012 census estimates showed population growth in each city as well as countywide. ...

GREEN FOREST -- The Poultry Evaluation Team from Green Forest High School's Future Farmers of America club won their statewide competition at the Arkansas FFA Career Development Event held at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville recently. "This is great accomplishment," said said Keith Kilbourn, FFA advisor for Green Forest. ...