Stories from Friday, November 27, 2015

HOLIDAY ISLAND--The Holiday Island Suburban Improvement District Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a 2016 budget, reflecting increases in water rates, especially in outdated connection fee rates, during a regular meeting on Monday at the district office...

If you don't like the cold, Pete Snyder has good news for you. Snyder, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Tulsa, reported Tuesday that Carroll County should experience a relatively mild winter compared with last year. This year, Snyder said, winter temperatures will be a bit higher than last year's...

Berryville kindergarten teacher Staci Ray helps make sure her young charges make it to the right bus for the ride home on Tuesday. Here she walks Christopher Donahue to his bus for the long holiday weekend. (Photo by David Bell/Carroll County News)

Berryville, Green Forest and Eureka Springs will host Christmas parades next week. Eureka Springs will kick off the festivities at 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 4. Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism Director Kane Webb will be the grand marshal at the Parade of Lights, which will take place in the historic downtown area of Eureka Springs...

Aldermen during Monday night's Eureka Springs City Council meeting approved on the second reading an ordinance to increase water rates. Under the proposed ordinance, water rates would increase 50 cents per 1,000 gallons inside the city limits and $1 per 1,000 gallons outside the city limits...

Many in Berryville and across Carroll County have passed by the pretty white church east of the square on Church Street. Because of its quaint charm, First Christian Church Disciples of Christ of Berryville has become a veritable icon for small rural churches...

Including more background in the 'Then' picture from World War I reveals that the tank was rolling around the Berryville Square -- note the First National Bank of Berryville (now First National Bank of North Arkansas) in the back. The 'Now' shot, made with a wider-angle lens, shows that this Ford F150 is at close to the same spot as the tank, in front of the Grand View Hotel. What a difference nearly 100 years makes...

Nov. 20 Joe Lee Bass, 23, Berryville, was booked on two counts of failure to appear and on hold for Barry County. Charles Lee Estep, 39, Witter, was booked on possession of drug paraphernalia. Roy Scott McNair, 32, Alpena, was booked on residential burglary and battery in the second degree...

"She laid him in a manger because there was no room for him in the inn," begins the most widely known Advent story. Another one known almost as well begins: "Marley was dead ... there is no doubt whatever about that. Old Marley was as dead as a doornail."...