Stories from Friday, September 12, 2014

Loaves and Fishes Food Bank and Mercy Foundation are working together to battle child hunger in Carroll County through the food bank's Operation Food For Hungry Children. On Wednesday, Mercy Foundation's Kristy Estrem and Cody Qualls presented Loaves & Fishes with a $10,000 check to help with the program...

When Tyson Foods bought Ocoma Foods, a poultry processing plant in Berryville, in 1972, Jean High had already been working at the plant for eight years. Forty-two years later, High is still there. On Tuesday she celebrated 50 years of working in poultry processing...

The city of Green Forest will hold its annual coat and shoe drive beginning next week. The Green Forest City Council discussed the project at its meeting Monday night. The coat and shoe drive has several sponsors from Green Forest and the surrounding area. Several local banks are among the businesses that have signed on to help sponsor the event, which will be primarily co-sponsored by the city of Green Forest and the Green Forest 4-H Club...

In July 2013, after the drowning of free diver Michael Burton, the Carroll County Sheriff's Office and the Tri-County Search and Rescue team discussed the need for a dive team. They reached this decision after spending approximately three weeks looking for Burton, exhausting several area dive teams and having to wait for other dive teams to respond because of schedules and traveling times...

From CCN wire services Carroll Electric Cooperative has been recognized as a 2014 Tree Line USA utility by the National Arbor Day Foundation and in collaboration with the National Association of State Foresters. This is the first year the cooperative has earned recognition for utilizing proper tree-trimming and right-of-way maintenance practices by the foundation. ...

BEAVER -- It was during a trip to Biscayne Bay, Fla., that Beaver Park Committee member Roger Shoffit got the idea to make a kayak and canoe ramp for the RV park's waterfront on Table Rock Lake. "I saw all these canoes and kayaks being launched on this kind of ramp at a park so people could paddle back into the mangrove swamps," Shoffit said. "It was on a Corps of Engineers lake, so I figured if it was accepted there, it would be all right here."...

Local civic leaders met with a state legislative subcommittee on Friday, Sept. 5, to discuss the importance of tourism to Arkansas' economy and to seek support for state investment in tourist destinations such as Eureka Springs. Eureka Springs Chamber of Commerce Director Mike Bishop joined Jack Moyer, vice president of operations and development for the Crescent and Basin Park hotels, and Dr. ...

A suspect was arrested Tuesday after law enforcement officers reportedly found drugs, drug paraphernalia and items consistent with the sale of narcotics at a business in Green Forest where the man is a co-owner. Timothy Brown, 49, is on parole for a previous offense. Parole officer Suzanne Villines visited the business Tuesday, accompanied by Green Forest police officer Chris Jones, Deputy DJ Harlan of the Carroll County Sheriff's Office and Harlan's K-9 partner...

A 28-year-old Eureka Springs man is free on bond after being arrested Aug. 28 for allegedly having sex with a 14-year-old girl. According to a Eureka Springs Police Department report, Jonathan Zovack admitted during an interview with Detective Paul Sebby that he had sex with the girl on more than one occasion. Zovack also said that the girl's mother was aware of the relationship and condoned it...

I was in the hardware store when I first heard the news, though I did not know what I was hearing. As the cashier tallied my purchase, I overheard a reporter on the store's radio make the peculiar announcement that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. At the time, I thought of it as little more than a curiosity. How wrong I was...