Stories from Friday, September 27, 2013

BERRYVILLE -- State and city contractors are hard at work improving the roads on which area residents travel in the busiest part of Berryville. The Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department is widening U.S. Highway 62 between Berryville and Eureka Springs and realigning the Highway 62 Spur to the entrance of Walmart...

BERRYVILLE -- The Berryville School District's 2013-2014 operating budget has been approved by the Board of Education. According to Berryville School District Treasurer Cathy Bunch, the operating budget is $13,279,266. This includes $6,511,673 for teacher salaries, $230,000 for facilities costs, $817,270 for debt payments and $5,720,323 for categorical funding and incidental costs such as supplies, maintenance and insurance...

You may not be aware of this, but our planet and its people should be bursting with relieved celebration, because 30 years ago this week, life as we have known it, came perilously close to the end. It was September 1983, and the Cold War was anything but cold. ...

The following people were booked into the Carroll County Detention Center from Sept. 16 through Sept. 24 and charged with the following crimes, for which they have not yet been tried: Sept. 16 Shane Phillip Stephenson, 36, Berryville, was booked for possession of drug paraphernalia and fleeing...

CARROLL COUNTY -- The Carroll County Sheriff's Office has helped find a missing person from Little Rock. The Sheriff's Office received a call from the Little Rock Police Department at around 7 p.m. on Tuesday requesting assistance in locating a missing person...

ALPENA -- There's no party quite like a 100th birthday party. Alpena Pass -- the "Pass" was dropped in the 1950s -- was founded in 1901, but it wasn't officially incorporated until May 1913. To celebrate 100 years of being incorporated, Alpena City Hall held a two-day event last weekend that tied in with the second annual Ozark Byways Buy Days, which featured yard sales in communities throughout northern Arkansas...

BERRYVILLE -- Talk around town is that Friday's Carroll County Super Bowl was the most exciting game played between the Bobcats and Tigers in at least the last 10 years. Berryville's 21-20 victory was the latest example that the Cats are a much-improved team and Green Forest has nothing to be ashamed of. Both teams played well and deserve a big pat on the back...

Eureka Springs' Haley Comstock records a kill in Tuesday's match. The Lady Highlanders dropped a 27-25, 27-25, 25-4 match to Marshall. Comstock had four kills and three blocks, Taylor Little added a kill, Michaela Flannigan had three digs.

GREEN FOREST -- Green Forest made quick work of Marshall Thursday night at Fred Grim Gym to stay perfect in 1-3A Conference action at 7-0. The Lady Tigers returned after a one-way break from action to ease past the Lady Bobcats in straight sets. The Lady Tigers recorded three aces and five kills with Payton Watson and Emily Glassell leading the way with two kills apiece. ...

PEA RIDGE -- Berryville volleyball coach Kristin Whetham said following Tuesday night's win over Farmington that she thought a loss for the Lady Cats might not be such a bad thing. She had a chance to see what kind of atmosphere that premonition would create on Thursday as Berryville dropped a straight-set match to Pea Ridge...

FARMINGTON -- Berryville's Lauren Saab and Austin Carr drove themselves to a berth in the Class 4A state golf tournament at Thunder Bayou Golf Links in Blytheville with qualifying rounds in Tuesday's district golf match in Farmington. Saab turned in a 95 to claim a conference title, the first in Berryville school history for a female, and Carr carded an 86 to earn his third consecutive state berth...