Stories from Friday, May 19, 2017

The Berryville City Council has set its sights on Berryville Works 2020. The council voted at its Tuesday meeting to pass Resolution 1013, adopting the economic development plan for the city. The resolution states it is the opinion of the council that the city must adopt an economic development action plan to effectively sustain and promote economic development opportunities in the city...

Snake World has shed its scales to expand more than once over the past few decades. The exhibit is celebrating its 25th anniversary, and owner and operator Dale Ertel said it has grown and changed since the doors first opened on May 5, 1992. The most noticeable difference, he said, is the variety of inhabitants in the exhibit...

At its Monday meeting, the Berryville School Board voted to hire Brad Nelson as high school band director and Hayley Watson as middle school band director and assistant band director. High school principal David Gilmore said Nelson is currently finishing graduate school at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln...

The Green Forest School Board voted at its Monday meeting to approve the Connect 4 program. The program will provide career and technical training to local students through a partnership between the Berryville, Eureka Springs and Green Forest school districts. The courses will be taught in the former Berryville Readiness Center, known as the old armory...

Community Blood Center of the Ozarks (CBCO) is the local provider of blood for patients at 40 area hospitals in southwest Missouri, northwest Arkansas and southeast Kansas. Sick and injured hospital patients depend on CBCO donors to provide the lifesaving blood they need...

If all goes according to plan — and that’s a mighty big “IF” — this weekend I will be in attendance at two high school graduations. These are decidedly important ceremonies for me and my family. They are for my two oldest sons: Blayze and Bryce McBrayer...

May 11 • Amanda Ellen Henderson, 33, Green Forest, was booked on three counts of failure to pay. • Curtis Dwain Hicks, 55, Bartlesville, Okla., was booked on public intoxication. • Aspin Nicole McCreary, 25, Green Forest, was booked on shoplifting, obstruction of government operations and failure to appear...

Kelby Harness, a 2016 graduate of Green Forest High School, has received the J.L. and Cora Adkins Scholarship from the Arkansas Tech University Foundation for the 2017-2018 academic year. Harness is majoring in physical education and minoring in social studies (middle level) at Arkansas Tech in Russellville. She is a member of the HPEWS Club at Arkansas Tech. She is the daughter of Terri Harness...