Stories from Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Robert "Bob" Lee Meeks, age 75, of Bentonville, died July 12, 2015, at his home. He was born on November 16, 1939, in the Grandview community in Carroll County, Arkansas, to the late Hal Meeks, Sr., and Ruth (French) Meeks. Bob moved to Bentonville in 1964 from Eureka Springs and worked for Walters Printing Company and later Western Auto. ...

Eureka Springs' annual Bluegrass Festival will take place from Thursday, Aug. 13 to Saturday, Aug. 15. The festival will kick off with a watermelon social at 7 p.m. Thursday at Basin Spring Park. Hosted by the Eureka Springs City Advertising and Promotion Commission, the social will have free watermelon and bottled water. It is an open jam, and everyone is invited to bring their instruments and join in...

The Carroll County Election Commission will meet at 9 a.m. Friday, July 17, in the County Clerk's Office to review the ballot proofs for the 2015 Annual School Board Election.

Alan and Cheryl Wojcik Cox celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Thursday, July 9. The couple was united in marriage on Saturday July 9, 1965 in Huntsville. They are the proud parents of two sons, Alan Jr. and wife Mystina of Springdale; Jason and wife Shelley of Lowell; and one daughter, Sherry, wife of Billy Clark of Bethel Heights. The couple also has three grandchildren: Mallory Clark, Chance Clark and Connor Cox...

The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program (AHPP) will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 16, at the Berryville Community Center at 601 Dr. Spurlin Drive Circle. At the meeting, representatives from the AHPP will propose the creation of a Berryville Commercial Historic District...

Do you recognize the shape of this Carroll County icon? This picture was made in 1966 and has become intertwined with the contemporary history of Eureka Springs. The finished piece stands 65.5 feet high and commands attention from numerous locations around Eureka Springs. (Photo courtesy of the Eureka Springs Historical Museum)...

A Green Forest woman accused of threatening her neighbor's life and property was arrested on three unrelated charges on Friday, July 10. Carroll County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Maj. George Frye said 28-year-old Ashley Pearson was arrested for public intoxication, contempt of court and failure to appear...

This Saturday, I won a first-place award from the Arkansas Press Association. It wasn't the award I had expected to win. Going in, I knew three of my pieces had won either first, second or third place in the state. One was a shared byline with my editor, one was for coverage of education and one was for a column I wrote on domestic violence last November...

New York and California. Florida and Michigan. South Korea, South Africa and Ecuador. These are just a few of the places where singers in this year's Opera in the Ozarks at Inspiration Point come from. Add in Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Pennsylvania and numerous other states for good measure and you truly have a diverse geographic representation at this renowned opera workshop...

Recently appointed interim superintendent of the Eureka Springs School District, Bryan Pruitt thinks he's pretty close to having it all. He lives closer to his three daughters, who attend the University of Arkansas, and finally has the opportunity to show his chops as an administrator at the district-wide level after being the principal of Bergman High School for the past nine years...

A Green Forest man was arrested Wednesday, July 8, in connection with an alleged meth lab operation. According to the Carroll County Detention Center intake log, 34-year-old Jessi Dustin Widner was booked on charges of violating Arkansas Statutes 5-64-443. These statutes cover two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia, one being a Class B Felony and the other a Class D Felony...

The future of Berryville Bobcats football is in grade school right now, but that doesn't mean it's too early to start building a foundation for success. The Bobcats began football camp for kids entering grades 3-7 Monday morning. Coach Austin Winters said the camp is about teaching the kids the fundamentals of the game...

The third annual Green Forest Tiger Booster Club golf tournament was held Saturday at the Carroll County Country Club in Berryville. Nearly 100 golfers played in the two-person scramble benefiting Tiger student-athletes throughout the year. The results are as follows:...

The Major League Baseball All-Star Game is the most meaningless game that means everything in all of sports. When the American League takes on the National League on Tuesday evening in Cincinnati, each league will be playing for much more than bragging rights. They will be playing for the right to have home-field advantage in the World Series...

The Green Forest track and field program will feature some familiar faces in new places next season. Jay Martin, who coached the Green Forest girls track team last season, resigned to take a job at Harrison. Trista Killingsworth, who was the boys track coach, will move over to coach the girls. ...

Aspen Briscoe isn't a pitcher, but she still records plenty of strikes. Briscoe, of Shell Knob, Mo., is on her way to Chicago to compete at the Junior Gold Bowling Championships, which start July 11. She will be competing against thousands of other bowlers for a spot on the under-18 USA Olympic team. Briscoe won the Junior Gold state bowling tournaments in Arkansas and Missouri...

Larry Owen Boss, a resident of Green Forest, Arkansas, was born November 8, 1936 in Douglas, Arkansas, a son of Lester Owen and Mattie (Noris) Boss. He departed this life Friday, July 10, 2015 in Green Forest, AR at the age of 78 years. Larry was a former Green Forest City Councilman. He was of the Christian Faith...