Stories from Tuesday, October 18, 2016

A 19-year-old Berryville man was arrested Friday in connection with the robbery earlier that day of a First National Bank branch in Eureka Springs. According to the jail intake log, Hunter Cody Chafin is charged with aggravated robbery and failure to pay...

State law requires that Arkansas counties approve a budget for the next calendar year by Dec. 31 each year. The process of putting that budget together typically begins much earlier. In Carroll County, department heads begin preparing their budget requests as early as August. Those requests are then forwarded to the county clerk, who assembles them for review by the county's quorum court...

The Berryville Alliance of Churches hopes to provide more than a free meal with the Open Table mission. They want to provide a community. The group met Sunday for a soup lunch at the United Methodist Church to discuss adopting the Open Table model. Carrie Welch, national director of Open Table, led the discussion and explained the goals and guidelines of Open Table...

The city of Berryville has begun the process of developing an strategic action plan for economic development. Preliminary work has been underway over the past year at the direction of Mayor Tim McKinney, economic development director Chris Claybaker said, with assistance from the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service, the Winrock Foundation, the Arkansas Economic Development Commission and the Berryville Chamber of Commerce...

The Carroll County Quorum Court moved through a light agenda at its monthly meeting Monday night, approving an appointment to the county library board and a routine transfer of funds within the county budget. Before that, however, justices of the peace heard public comments regarding the proposed Eastern Carroll County Ambulance District. A proposal on the Nov. 8 general election ballot would create the ambulance district and a 2.5-mill tax to fund its operations...

The Berryville Rotary Club recently welcomed its October Student of the Month, Layne Chester. Chester is a senior at Berryville High School and plays football for the Bobcats. Pictured with him is Johnice Dominick, Berryville Rotary's vice president/secretary. (Submitted photo)...

Nighthawk Custom has its sights set on expansion. The Berryville Planning Commission met Tuesday, Oct. 11, for a public hearing on a petition for rezoning and an application for a conditional use permit submitted by Mark Stone for Nighthawk and AAA Access Mini Storage, located at 1306 W Trimble Ave...

When I was 6, my mom bought me a Barbie coloring book. I was elated, and not just because I had an unhealthy obsession with all things Barbie. I desperately wanted to color the entire book on my own, from cover to cover, as perfectly as possible. My friends at daycare asked to take a page from the coloring book, and I adamantly refused. ...

First off, the Carroll County Farm Service Agency apologizes to all of those who called in recently to ask if they needed to do anything after receiving 2016 NAP summary of coverage notices in the mail. We told you nothing had changed and to just remember the March 15 deadline we've always had for reporting your 2017 perennial hay and grazing acres. ...

Dear Editor, A support group for people with Parkinson's disease and their caregivers is in the planning stage. Our first meeting will be on Wednesday, Nov. 2, at 10 am in the Community Room of ECHO. If you or anyone you know might be interested in such a group, please share this information with them...

Berryville Intermediate School has been collecting donations to assist the family of Benita Langinbelk, a Berryville woman who was among four people killed in a car accident on Oct. 9. Principal Lisa Geren said that she worked with relatives of Langinbelk to establish an account at Cornerstone Bank in Berryville for donations. Both teachers and students are pitching in to help out, she said...

Penn Castle was built in 1888 as the retirement home of Southern Baptist evangelist, Maj. William Evander Penn. He designed Penn Castle based on European castles he had visited. He first built four back rooms as a simple cottage, then "as the Lord provided," he added the three-story front part of the house. ...

Rotary International World Wide Polio Day on Oct. 24, 2016 is the opportunity for Rotary clubs and members to focus on this international service project to eliminate polio from the globe. The disease remains endemic in three countries -- Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan -- although other countries remain at risk for imported cases...

Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge (TCWR) is an accredited non-profit big cat and exotic animal refuge. Founded in 1992, TCWR has a long-standing history of working to not only save big cats but also educate the public about the struggles of big cats in captivity. ...