Stories from Monday, June 29, 2015

CONWAY-- Melvin Portillo and Caitlyn Smith of Berryville are among 75 incoming first-year students who have been selected by the University of Central Arkansas Norbert O. Schedler Honors College as its newest class of Honors Scholars. The students were selected from a pool of more 250 qualified applicants, of which 120 were selected for intensive full-day interviews on the UCA campus...

In August of 1871 a man sent a letter to his wife claiming that he had been swindled by the Wells Fargo Company. He vowed his revenge. So, he began burglarizing the Fargo stage coaches in northern California. Over the next decade he succeeded in almost 30 robberies...

The west side of the Berryville Square hasn't changed a lot in the last hundred years. But the occupants of the the buildings have been numerous. Of course, the shape of the square has changed as well as the surface of the roadway. Regardless of configuration, the square has always been tree-shaded. (Photo by David Bell/Carroll County News)...

The Eureka Springs City Council voted 4-2 Monday night against directing city attorney Tim Weaver to seek an injunction to stop the implementation of a state law banning cities and counties from passing their own anti-discrimination laws. Alderman James DeVito made a motion to instruct Weaver to take legal action to prevent Act 137 from taking effect on July 20...

A Green Forest woman is free on bond after allegedly threatening her neighbor's life and property. According to the intake log at the Carroll County Detention Center, 28-year-old Ashley Pearson was booked into the jail on June 15 on probable cause for public intoxication, disorderly conduct, battery in the third degree, criminal mischief in the second degree, criminal trespass, terroristic threatening and assault in the third degree...

Five Berryville students will be traveling to Chicago this weekend for the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) national conference. Jasmine Rosales, Hannah Standley, Derek Doss, Rachel Fancher and Kynzie Stogsdill will leave for the conference Saturday, June 27, and return Friday, July 3. According to Berryville High School principal Owen Powell, the students will be competing with more than 3,000 students across the nation...

Children in Carroll County certainly won't go hungry this summer. Through the summer nutrition program, the Carroll County Senior Activity Center offers nutritionally balanced breakfast and lunch daily for children under 18. The meals are hosted at Locust Heights Apartments and at the Berryville Community Center, with breakfast offered from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. and lunch offered from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m...

Mercy Health, the Missouri-based company that operates Mercy Hospital in Berryville, has announced a workforce reduction that will mean the elimination of nearly 350 jobs in a four-state area. That will include some cuts at Mercy Berryville, although the exact number wasn't available Thursday...

On June 25, 2015, the world lost a remarkable human being, Sandy Davidson Goodier. She died unexpectedly in her home. She leaves behind a legion of friends and family who loved her unconditionally, her loving husband Rick Goodier, and her grandson Jacob, of the home. Sandy's four children, Tracy, Clint, Heidi and Ben, all live in Texas. She would boast of her twelve grandchildren and fourteen great grandchildren...

By a 4-3 vote, the Eureka Springs Historic District Commission granted approval on June 17 to the Eureka Springs School District's request to demolish most of the district's old high school to make way for an outdoor venue that would host public gatherings, farmers markets and craft show events...