Stories from Friday, June 30, 2017

June 22 • Juan Ibarra Martinez, 48, Berryville, was booked on failure to pay. June 23 • Gary David Grose, 34, Holiday Island, was booked on court commitment. • Scott Gregory Logan, 33, Green Forest, was booked on possession of a controlled substance and suspended or revoked probation...

“Won’t you help to sing these songs of freedom?” Bob Marley asked a generation. In a few minutes of music he retold the story of African slavery, the continued pursuit of liberty, and quoted a line from Marcus Garvey that is now almost a hundred years old...

Two local residences will be rezoned soon. On Monday night, the Eureka Springs City Council agreed to rezone 38 Prospect and 40 Prospect from R-1 Residential to C-3 Commercial. Planning commission chairwoman Melissa Greene spoke on behalf of Byron McKimmey, who owns the property at 38 Prospect, on June 12, asking the council to rezone the property and saying McKimmey’s neighbors at 40 Prospect didn’t want their property to be rezoned...

Arvest Bank launched its annual 1 Million Meals initiative to fight hunger in the four-state region the bank serves two months ago. Recently, the bank announced that with the help of customers and community members, it has exceeded the campaign goal by raising a total of 1,881,283 meals in the fight against hunger...

According to a Eureka Springs couple, the city could be in hot water over its recent water and sewer rate increases. Joyce and Eric Knowles reported that they are threatening to sue the city over the new rates, saying their lawyer Kent Crow delivered a letter to Mayor Butch Berry describing the potential lawsuit on June 12. In the letter, Crow says there’s pending action against the city for the alleged illegal exaction of the infrastructure and improvement fee...

The Berryville School District will be asking voters to approve a tax increase of 4.45 mills in this September’s school election. The Berryville School Board voted at its Tuesday meeting to submit an application for a permit to issue bonds to the Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) and to employ First Security Beardsley Public Finance as the fiscal agent...