Stories from Monday, September 29, 2014

The Eureka Springs volleyball team achieved a milestone Thursday night -- for the first time in the program's four-year history, the Lady Highlanders won a match. Eureka Springs' five-set victory over Marshall was proof of what Coach Penny Pemberton says has been consistent improvement by the Lady Highlanders...

The Carroll County Quorum Court worked quickly through a light agenda Friday morning. The county took a major step with the adoption of a new code book, but the justices of the peace required little discussion before approving this ordinance. This final step completed a process that enlisted the help of the Association of Arkansas Counties to eliminate obsolete ordinances and assemble the remaining ordinances into a standardized format. The new codebook will be easier to search...

Christine Faye Stephens, 86 passed away on Saturday September 27, 2014 at Hospice House of the Hills in Harrison, AR. The daughter of Tom and Alice Bailey was born on September 10, 1928 in Alpena AR where she married Dewey Ellis Stephens and later relocated to the Monterey Peninsula in California shortly after World War II where she resided for 40 years. ...