Stories from Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Nearly $1,500 in cash was left unaccounted for after a Carroll County Sheriff's Office deputy resigned in July 2016, and the Arkansas State Police are investigating. CCSO Chief Deputy Maj. George Frye said Monday night that Sheriff Randy Mayfield requested the state police investigation after discovering the shortage. Frye said the money had been allocated to former CCSO deputy Jonathan White to make undercover drug purchases...

The Berryville High School Winter Homecoming Court, from left to right: Yu-chen 'Jim' Hsaio, Audrey Romera, Queen Jeanessa Smith, Luke Sugg, Clara Watson and Cole Parton. (Photo by Charles Chappell/www.PhotoShelter.com/CCImages)

The Carroll County Quorum Court on Monday approved the appointments of five individuals to the newly formed board of commissioners for the Eastern Carroll County Ambulance District. By a vote of 11-0, justices of the peace approved the appointments of David Stoppel, Wendell Coatney, Amy Leivan, JoAnn Griesenauer and Rick Wheatley to the board. Their terms are staggered, from five years for Stoppel to one year for Wheatley...

The Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) District VI Spring Conference just took place on Friday, Jan. 20, at Arkansas State University in Mountain Home, but several Carroll County Students already have their eyes on the state competition. Both Berryville and Green Forest high schools had students win in their categories. These students will be moving on to the state level of the competition this April in Little Rock...

This past weekend, women, men and children all around the world united to march for basic human rights. The Women's March has become one of the largest peaceful protests in history, with citizens from all seven continents speaking up during the worldwide event. This is something to be proud of. It's something I'm proud of, at least...

The College Avenue project is on its way to graduating. Berryville mayor Tim McKinney said the city has been working to widen College Avenue and add sidewalks along the street to improve its safety. Most of the water-line relocations have been completed, he said, and work will begin on the drainage system this week...

HOLIDAY ISLAND -- District Manager Lawrence Blood's monthly report to the Holiday Island Board of Commissioners on Monday also contained comparisons of the years 2015 and 2016. The report should be uplifting for property owners. With only one exception, the district's amenities and services showed increases in revenues generally combined with decreases in expenditures...

Green Forest Intermediate School has announced its list of honor roll students for the second quarter of the 2016-17 school year. The following students made the All A Honor Roll: Fourth Grade: Henry Aguilar, Emma Coley, Brityn Gilliam, Kayla Lozano, Alyvia Newboles, Alivia Norris, Jose Rivera and Alyson Tegley...

Thomas Haydon, a student at the Academy of Excellence in Eureka Springs, won first place at the district level for the VFW's Patriot's Pen Essay Contest. Haydon had previously won first place for the Holiday Island VFW Post 77's annual Patriot's Pen Essay Contest before continuing on to the next level...

Allison Jordan, from Louisiana, had a great time dancing to the bands at the fourth annual Ozark Mountain Music Festival. The event is held at the Basin Park Hotel in Eureka Springs and organizers liken it to camping out indoors with cutting edge bluegrass, folk and American roots music. Bands and musicians came from Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Texas and the 'front range of the Colorado.' (Photo by David Bell/Carroll County News)...

An experimental airplane called an RV 6 taxies from the parking area to the runway after attending the monthly fly-in at the Carroll County Airport on Saturday. It was estimated that 25 to 30 aircraft of various types flew to the airport to have a chili lunch and visit with other pilots from across the region. ...

A wrecker from G&I Towing pulls a 1993 Ford Tempo out of the ditch on Carroll County Road 306 Friday morning after it was involved in a two-car accident with a 2016 Dodge Durango. There were no injuries. Both vehicles pulled onto CR 306 off U.S. 62. ...

Community Blood Center of the Ozarks (CBCO) is on a Code Red Alert for O Positive and O Negative blood types and a Code Yellow Alert for B Negative and A Positive blood types. The community is strongly urged to give blood this week at a CBCO donor center or blood drive...

EUREKA SPRINGS -- After two lackluster performances in the previous week, it was possible the Eureka Springs Highlanders would let homecoming distractions get in the way of Friday night's game against Kingston. Evidently, the Kingston Yellowjackets were the ones getting distracted by the pomp and circumstance, as Eureka Springs got a 64-27 victory...

The Berryville Bobcats got a big win on a big night, defeating the Yellville-Summit Panthers, 63-57. In front of a homecoming crowd at Bobcat Arena, the Bobcats rolled to a second consecutive victory. "First and foremost, that was the biggest crowd of the year, maybe the best regular season crowd we have had in the arena," Berryville coach Brent Compton said. "I was here when it was built and that was as big of a crowd as we have had."...

The Berryville wrestling team hosted the Bobcat Winter Blowout on Saturday and came away with a fourth-place finish. Greenbrier won, scoring 183 points. Individual results for the Bobcats are as follows: 126 pounds: Cesar Martinez defeated Luke Riley 9-6 en route to a third-place finish...