Stories from Friday, July 15, 2016

The Green Forest City Council on Tuesday passed an ordinance vacating a portion of Tyson Drive to allow for Tyson Foods' new plant. Mayor Charles Reece introduced the ordinance to the council, saying Tyson had requested to have controlled access to its facility on Tyson Drive, The company plans to install a gate. To make this possible, Reece said, the city would have to vacate a portion of the street and give control of the vacated area to Tyson...

The season of fresh sweet corn and local tomatoes is upon us, and nothing signifies it as much as the roadside seller with freshly picked corn and wonderful vine-ripened tomatoes. Here Telisha Robinson helps Berryville seventh-graders Lexi Smith (center) and Faith Kelley (right) pick out great ears of the yellow gold. Robinson offered corn, tomatoes, peaches, cantaloupes and watermelons. If you miss the roadside vendors be sure to visit the Berryville Farmers' Market every Saturday on the square. (Photo by David Bell/Carroll County News)

So far, the Eureka Springs City Council has received two applications for the open seat in Ward 3. Kristine Kendrick and Ferguson Stewart have applied for the seat, which recently opened up after the death of alderwoman Joyce Zeller. Both applicants submitted letters of interest to aldermen before the council's June 27 meeting...

The Berryville City Council voted to approve a 5 percent increase to police patrolmen's salaries at its meeting on July 5. The council went into executive session for the annual evaluation of city employees' wages. Mayor Tim McKinney said that wages for city employees are determined by a seven-step scale that factors in job description and performance...

Kids learned how their amphibian friends communicate this Wednesday at libraries in Carroll County. Lilia Beattie, a member of Northwest Arkansas FrogWatch and curriculum chair for the Northwest Arkansas Master Naturalists, led a class teaching kids how to identify frog and toad species by their calls. She visited the Green Forest Library in the morning, the Berryville Library after lunch and the Eureka Springs Carnegie Public Library in the afternoon...

The city of Eureka Springs now has an updated zoning map. On Monday night, the Eureka Springs City Council voted to approve the new map. Mayor Butch Berry pointed out that the map hasn't been updated since 2003, saying the updated version has no zoning changes...

HOLIDAY ISLAND--The trail that was unofficially referred to during its construction as the Community Church Trail has now been renamed the Starlite North Trail. The name change was intended to avoid confusion and let hikers know that it is a public trail and not a private one belonging to the church and its members. The name change was decided upon during a Tuesday, July 12, meeting of the Holiday Island Ad Hoc Trails Committee...

The "Dust Bowl Troubadour" was born more than a century ago this week: Woodrow Wilson Guthrie, better known simply as Woody Guthrie. His songs are legion, his prickly reputation incomparable, and his influence as far reaching as any American musician who has ever lived...

The picture of the two little girls playing on pedal cars in the Midweek edition was taken about 1915. The two sisters are Ruth Fuller Cross (left) and Dorothy Fuller Mathews. The Fuller house they are pictured in front of was built in 1904. A flue fire tried to destroy it in 1979 but the inferno ravaged mostly the top floor, burning from the roof downward, which saved it. ...

The Eureka Springs Police Department has closed its investigation of a former employee of the Eureka Springs School District. No charges will be brought against the employee, who has not been named. Detective Brian Jones said the employee was being investigated for "improper touching." The investigation was in-depth, he said, with children and the employee being interviewed. ...

The Arkansas Department of Health and the Carroll-Boone Water District have placed Carroll County under a boil order after a main waterline ruptured Thursday night. Craig Corder, engineer supervisor for the Carroll-Boone Water District, issued a precautionary boil order notice for the part of the Carroll-Boone system from Eureka Springs to Harrison. ...

The Green Forest Lady Tiger volleyball team is a month and a day away from its first match of the season. As practice begins, Coach Trista Killingsworth is taking this time to work on the fundamentals and transition from where they left off last year, the state tournament in Piggott...

Regardless of your political affiliation, we should all be able to recognize we have a problem with gun violence in this country. I'm not here to blame whites, African-Americans, police officers or any other groups of people in this country, I'm here to make a call for change. ...

The Berryville Commercial Historic District has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Frances McSwain, director of the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, announced Friday, July 8, that the district was placed on the country's list of historically significant properties...