Stories from Friday, May 16, 2014

CARROLL COUNTY -- Tuesday, May 20, is Election Day across the state. Voting in the preferential primary and non-partisan elections will run from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. in Carroll County. Berryville voters can cast their ballots at the Berryville Community Center. Voters from the Prairie, Cabanal and Kings River precincts are also instructed to vote there...

EUREKA SPRINGS -- Eureka Springs School District music teacher Chad Martin's contract has not been renewed for next year, he said. He received a letter May 1 from Superintendent David Kellogg informing him of the fact. He was called out of class and presented with the letter by Elementary Principal Clare Lesieur, he said...

BERRYVILLE -- Last month, the screen at the Main Theater saw the last ever film-based movie shine on it from the projection room. "The company that installed [our digital projector system] could start the movie from their base in Kansas," Main Theater owner Kenny Clark said about his newly-installed digital projector...

HOLIDAY ISLAND -- The Carroll County Sheriff's Office has charged Clifford Burkett, 49, of Holiday Island with numerous counts of theft by receiving as well as a parole violation issued the the Department of Community Corrections. Burkett was arrested on March 5 after a lengthy investigation involving thefts from Carroll, Benton and Madison counties, in addition to Stone County in Missouri. Charges are being pursed by officials in those counties as well...

BERRYVILLE -- Carroll Electric Cooperative Corporation will hold its annual meeting on Thursday, May 22, and will review the annual report, re-elect a board member and hear a talk by CEO Rob Boaz. While electricity sales revenue fell between 2011 and 2012, dropping from $144,478,960 in 2011 to $142,587,473 in 2012, the CE annual report for 2013, mailed to members along with ballots, shows a whopping $164,569,158 in sales, an increase of $22 million...

Dellene G. Reed, a resident of Eureka Springs, was born on April 22, 1930, in Modesto, Calif., a daughter of Ralph and Bernice (Holton) Gordon. She departed this life on Thursday, May 15, 2014, in Eureka Springs, at the age of 84. Dell received her master of education degree at Long Beach State in California. She was a third grade elementary teacher for 25 years in Los Alamitos, Calif...

Anna Marie "Ann" Mullen, 93, of Fayetteville died on May 14, 2014, at Butterfield Trail Village in Fayetteville. She was born in 1920 in Coffeyville, Kan., the daughter of Ray and Zoe Herrick Anibal. She was a long time resident of Tulsa, Okla., and later Eureka Springs and moved to Butterfield Trail Village in 1996. She was the widow of Fred Mullen, who died in 1995 after 53 years of marriage...

Harroll Martin Rushing, a resident of Eureka Springs, was born on Nov. 22, 1943, in Bruceton, Tenn., a son of Paul Harroll and Ethel Irene (Horton) Rushing. He departed this life on Thursday, May 15, 2014, at his home in Eureka Springs at the age of 70...

BERRYVILLE -- On Wednesday, May 7, the Holiday Island Baptist Church provided some much-needed items to The Cradle, Carroll County's maternity support center. The HIBC Women's Bible Study Group gathered donations -- both monetary and needed items -- to present them to The Cradle, located at 213 Hailey Rd. in Berryville...

While at a soccer game some time ago, I was reminded of why there is so little peace in our world. Parents from the two opposing teams almost came to blows and bloodshed while watching from the bleachers. This wasn't a game with the World Cup at stake. ...

LITTLE ROCK -- One-hundred years ago, America was still three years away from entering The Great War, Ty Cobb was hitting .368 and Charlie Chaplin's first movie, "Making a Living," was released. At the time, Arkansas was home to about 1.5 million people, most of them involved in farming...

EUREKA SPRINGS -- Last fall The Aud in Eureka Springs was filled nearly to capacity for a special double-broadcast taping of Michael Johnathon's "WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour." Next weekend, Eureka Springs music fans will get a chance to see the PBS broadcast shown on a big screen on Friday, May 23 and see Johnathon in concert along with the legendary Michael Martin Murphey on Saturday, May 24...

Dan White has a passion for alpacas. The retired Springdale firefighter and his wife, Carola, moved to Carroll County and started Arrowpoint Farm to raise the mild-mannered and fine-fleeced alpacas. But as with most fleece-producing animals there's a time to sheer, and with more hands it's easier to do the job. ...