Stories from Tuesday, May 23, 2017

HOLIDAY ISLAND — A quorum of three members of the Holiday Island Suburban Improvement District Board of Commissioners — Chairman Dan Kees, Nita Holley and Linda Graves — unanimously passed a resolution putting the community a step closer to possible incorporation during a regular BOC meeting on Monday, May 22. Commissioners David Makidon and Bill Noonan were absent...

Amanda Nettles has joined the staff of Carroll County Newspapers as a summer intern. Nettles began work on Monday and will continue through July. She will be working at both the Carroll County News in Berryville and its sister paper, the Lovely County Citizen in Eureka Springs...

The Berryville School Board voted at its Monday meeting to accept a bid from Rockin W Excavation for the installation of new sidewalks. “We ran bids for three weeks in the state newspaper, and the bids closed last Friday,” said Dr. Paul Hines, the school district’s director of maintenance and facilities...

Berryville Middle School’s sixth grade class has raised about $1,600 for the Berryville Library, and they aren’t turning the page on the project yet. Literacy teacher Karie Sayer said the sixth grade’s library project came together after the teachers heard the library was looking into constructing a new building...

Green Forest Middle School student Ally Holsted has been recognized as a Promising Young Writer by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). “I got a certificate of participation, which is like an honorable mention because they selected the people who get it,” Holsted said...

The Carroll and Madison Library System (CAMALS) has been selected through a competitive application process to be part of “NASA@ My Library,” an initiative to engage public audiences nationwide in informal and lifelong learning with the excitement of NASA exploration and discovery. In spring 2017, more than 500 libraries applied to participate...

Clare Doss of Berryville, a student at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, was a first-place winner at the recent “Create @ State:  A Symposium of Research, Scholarship and Creativity,” at the university. Create @ State provides an opportunity for students to present original work in a professional setting, and encompasses all six colleges on the ASU campus. Judges for the presentations included local business leaders and ASU alumni...

Vice President Mike Pence spoke at the Notre Dame commencement ceremony on Sunday, and several students silently walked out in protest. Some disagreed with the Trump administration’s actions. Some disagreed with the sentiment behind Pence’s speech. No matter their reason, they all had a right to do what they did...

Over the weekend photographers from across several states were swarming across Eureka Springs, both day and night, taking pictures of most anything that moved and lots of things that didn’t. They were participants in the Mid-America Photography Symposium – MAPSYM...

Although Lea Ann Jackson is retiring at the end of this school year, she is still finding new ways to expand on education in the classroom, or the gym in her case. Berryville Elementary School second-graders have been using Bee-Fit pedometers during Jackson’s gym class to help them learn about science, math and technology while exercising...

The Green Forest School Board voted at a special meeting Monday to approve a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the Campus Visit Project study. Superintendent Matt Summers said the MOU reflects the agreement between the Department of Education Reform in the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas and the Green Forest School District to complete the Campus Visit Project study involving eighth-grade students...

Doug Shott coached his first spring football game as a Berryville football coach on Thursday night. Heading into the game, Shott was hoping to see that the Bobcat players have learned what the coaches have been teaching them. "We have installed five defensive coverages," Shott said. "And I think last year all they ever used was one. We will be looking for our kids to show what they have learned."...

The Green Forest Tigers finished the season 10-6 with a loss in the first round of the Class 4A state soccer tournament in Batesville, but coach Jonathan Bryant is proud of the way his team played throughout the season. "I'm extremely proud of these guys," Bryant said. "They fought hard all season. We came up short of our ultimate goal, but I couldn't be more proud of these guys. They played hard all year. I'm going to miss my seniors. They are a great group of guys."...

Bowlers from the Carroll County Youth Bowling League went to the state tournament in Cabot and did very well “Divas and the Dude” competed as a team in the Bantam junior division and finished third with a handicap score of 2,591. The team consisted of Makayla Durrance, Alley Alvard, Brookelynn Swofford and Brandon Durrance...

WILLIAM EDWARD “ED” SWOFFORD, of Berryville, Arkansas, went to his eternal home on Saturday, May 20, 2017. We know he was met at heaven’s gate by Jean asking, “What took you so long, Dad.” Ed was born July 30, 1929 to John Oscar and Eva Chloe (Plumlee) Swofford...