Stories from Friday, February 19, 2016

A few small puffs of smoke were the prelude to 6,000 tons of rock heaving 15 feet into the air before falling back down into a mound of earth and rocks of various sizes. The blast was to create a trench for the relocation of the sewer line south of Southern Heights subdivision on Arkansas 221 in Berryville. ...

Feb. 12 Tanica Ankien, 20, Berryville, was booked on failure to pay. Hollie Anne Burdick, 36, Berryville, was booked on driving while intoxicated, no proof of insurance, driving on a suspended license, criminal trespass and implied consent. James Wayne Evans, 38, Berryville, was booked on failure to appear...

Mid-States Specialty Eggs (MSSE) can continue its construction. On Tuesday night, the Berryville City Council passed an ordinance waiving competitive bidding for the purchase of construction equipment services for 2016. The council declared an emergency to pass the ordinance on all three readings in one night...

Here's what the Outpost store looks like today. The store is relatively new, the highway widened to five lanes and part of the hump in the road lowered. The old rock store was torn down in 1987 and the present facility was opened that same year by Bill Purdom. ...

Green Forest School District administrators can rest easy. The Green Forest School Board extended the contracts for all the district's administrators for the 2016-17 school year Monday night. Superintendent Matt Summers said the board also extended the contracts for Eddie Phillips, transportation supervisor, and Shelly Fultz, food service director...

Though the Berryville School Board agreed to hire a district treasurer on Dec. 14, the board failed to accept Superintendent Phil Clark's recommendation to fill the position Monday night. Board member Chad Hipps asked to table the issue, saying he didn't want to make any decisions that would affect the new superintendent next year. Clark has announced his retirement effective July 1...

Two Berryville residents were arrested Tuesday night after allegedly shoplifting items used to create methamphetamine in Green Forest. A third subject involved in the incident is at large. According to the Carroll County Jail Intake Log, 55-year-old Pamela Jo Thompson and 31-year-old Aaron G. Newberry were booked on possession with purpose to manufacture meth, tampering with physical evidence, shoplifting and possession of drug paraphernalia...

Green Forest Mayor Charles Reece said Thursday that his city will not be without ambulance service after March 30, although it's still uncertain which company will provide that service. Mercy Hospital in Berryville recently informed Carroll County officials that it will stop providing emergency ambulance service in the county by March 30. ...