Stories from Tuesday, May 16, 2017

A new era began when Doug Shott was hired as football coach of the Berryville Bobcats in April. With that came a new slogan: "It's a great day to be a Bobcat." Shott and the Bobcats began spring practice last week and he is encouraged by the progress he has seen so far...

The Berryville Bobcats played short-handed for almost the entire second half of Thursday’s first-round match against Warren, rallying from a 1-0 deficit to tie the score at 1-1 on a penalty kick by Sergio Escobar with 32 minutes remaining. But Warren spoiled the comeback, scoring the game-winning goal with less than 15 seconds remaining...

BATESVILLE — You don’t see too many 9-1 victories in the state soccer tournament. But the Berryville Lady Bobcats got one Thursday, defeating E-Stem in the first round of the Class 4A state tournament in Batesville. "I thought we played pretty good all game long," Berryville coach Aaron Hall said. "They got one. They called a foul on us and she made a great kick. After that, it was all us."...

The Greater Eureka Springs Chamber of Commerce accepted the resignation of its president and chief operations officer, Tammy Thurow, on Wednesday, April 26. Since then, the community has been buzzing about the reason for Thurow’s resignation. This week, the Citizen spoke with Thurow and chamber officials to determine what led to the resignation and whether it really was a resignation at all...

The Berryville Parks Department and the Berryville Public Library are partnering for the second summer to bring “Movies in the Parks,” a series of free family events, to the community. Movies in the Parks are community events consisting of games and a movie. Parks Department manager Renée Allison has coordinated with library director Julie Hall to plan the four events, which will take place on the third Saturday of each month from May through August...

This past Sunday, Gideon and I visited his mom in Fayetteville to celebrate Mother’s Day. We played a game of Catan, drank coffee and talked for a few hours before heading back to Eureka Springs. It was a nice day, but I couldn’t help but miss my mom...

Opera in the Ozarks will have a female focus for its 2017 summer season. The nationally acclaimed summer music festival and training program for the nation’s top emerging opera professionals will kick off its summer season in June with nearly two dozen performances of three of the world’s finest operas featuring strong and independent women, each navigating the complexities that accompanied power during the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries...

Carroll County students will be practicing politics this summer at Arkansas Boys State and Arkansas Girls State. According to ArkansasGirlsState.com and ArkansasBoysState.com, the programs are sponsored by the American Legion Department of Arkansas and immerse high school juniors in civics education, teaching them about the duties, privileges and participation in the functioning of their government by having them live together in mock cities and counties as self-governing citizens...

The Berryville School Board voted at its Monday meeting to hire Donnel Armstrong as the new high school principal. Armstrong is currently the assistant principal at Berryville High school and will begin her term as principal for the 2017-17 school year. She is replacing David Gilmore, who was hired last week to as the principal for Eureka Springs High School...

Carroll County’s roads and bridges might have sustained as much as a half-million dollars in damage during heavy rains and flooding in late April and early May, Carroll County Judge Sam Barr told the quorum court on Monday. Barr said he and county road foreman Devoe Woodworth, as well as other road department employees, spent much of Monday surveying the damage around the county in preparation for a Thursday visit from representatives of the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management...