Stories from Friday, August 26, 2016

Carroll County residents will have an easier time driving to the fair this year. Regina Williams, secretary of the 2016 Fair Board, said the Carroll County Road Department has paved the road leading to the fairgrounds. "They've paved the road from the highway to about midway through our parking lot," she said...

Tyson Foods, the city of Green Forest and Carroll County celebrated a big step forward in their partnership this week. The company officially broke ground Wednesday, Aug. 24, on its expansion project in Green Forest plant. Doug Ramsey, a Tyson senior vice president, said the company plans to build a 200,000-square-foot facility across the street from the existing plant. Plans call for the facilities to be connected by a corridor, he said...

The Berryville School Board voted Monday night to deny changing the salary schedule of the School Resource Officer (SRO) for the remainder of the 2016-17 school year. Superintendent Owen Powell explained that the SRO works for both the school district and the city of Berryville, so the city and school each pay 50 percent of the SRO's salary. ...

An Arkansas doctor with a passion for aviation has landed a big role in Mercy Hospital Berryville's emergency department. Dr. John Johnson joined the Mercy team on Aug. 1. "As a pilot, I've traveled to a lot of places," said the Melbourne native. "I can say I enjoy small towns the most. You really get to know the people and the community well."...

The Carroll County Quorum Court met in special session Tuesday and passed a series of measures related to a proposed ambulance service district for the eastern portion of the county. First, justices of the peace voted to repeal the ordinance they adopted at the quorum court's regular meeting on Aug. 15 to create the district and levy a tax of 2.5 mills to finance its operation...

This is how the original Berryville water source appears today after decades of inattention. In its day, Mill Creek Spring/Town Branch, as it has variously been called, was a gathering place for people and their animals as they toted water to their houses. (Photo by David Bell/Carroll County News)...

Sometimes I wish I had more of a poet's touch, rather than pounding out these paragraphs of prose for all these years. The ability to say so much with so few words is a lacking discipline in our society (outside of a scarce group of especially creative people on Twitter), so the poets who can weave and wordsmith their way into our hearts with only a quatrain or two have my highest admiration...

The Green Forest Tigers will make their first road trip of the season Friday night when they travel to Elkins for a scrimmage. Gentry will also be there. Coach Bobby Bishop hasn't spent much time game-planning for the scrimmage; instead he has spent time working on things he believes Green Forest needs to work on heading into the regular season...

GREEN FOREST -- The Green Forest Lady Tigers didn't make their second match of the season easy on themselves, but coach Trista Killingsworth will take a 25-13, 25-20, 16-25, 25-18 victory over the Elkins Lady Elks. "I was so impressed with the way my girls got it done in the first two sets, but then in the third set we didn't change a thing, but somehow the momentum changed," Killingsworth said. ...

The Berryville Bobcats are looking forward to playing against someone other than themselves Friday night when they host the Harrison Goblins for a scrimmage. "The kids are excited about it," Berryville coach Austin Winters said. "We just need to go out there, keep working on the things we have been going over in practice and carry that over to Friday night."...

On Tuesday, the Berryville golf team competed at The Creeks in Cave Springs. On the boys side, Shiloh Christian won, shooting a team score of 119. Berryville finished third, shooting a 140. Ty Allen shot a 42 for the Bobcats, while Cole Parton shot a 44 and Rusty Colbert shot a 54. ...