Stories from Friday, November 24, 2017

Berryville saw a significant drop in the revenue collected from the city’s 1 percent sales tax in October. According to the city financial report, the city received $94,737.76 from the 1 percent sales tax in October 2017, compared with $117,720.37 in October 2016 — a decrease of 19.5 percent...

The Meals on Wheels program is making sure no senior goes hungry over the holidays. Carla Mann, director of the Carroll County Senior Activity and Wellness Center in Berryville, said the Meals on Wheels program is the biggest service the center provides...

The Berryville School District will soon begin issuing bonds for its construction project. Dan Lovelady, representing First Security Beardsley, spoke to the Berryville School Board at its Tuesday meeting about the bids received for the sale of bonds, which will be used to fund the $24 million construction project. Lovelady said Raymond James and Associates Inc. was the low bidder with a 3.51 percent interest rate...

Main Street Eureka Springs is working to ensure that visitors and locals have a holly, jolly Christmas. The organization hosted its Christmas Kick-off on Thursday, Nov. 16, inviting business owners in downtown Eureka Springs to hear about the events happening during the holidays this year. Jack Moyer, chairman of Main Street Eureka Springs, said he’s excited about everything the organization has in the works...

When it comes to the renovations at the hospital, the Eureka Springs Hospital Commission is in business. The commission agreed on Wednesday, Nov. 15, to choose Bates Architects and Johnson Architecture to manage the project. The commission’s other option was Morrison Architecture and Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects. Both architectural groups presented their qualifications and plans for the renovations to the commission on Nov. 13...

Holiday Island Elks Lodge 1042 recently selected its Students of the Quarter for Green Forest.  Certificates were presented by Linda Peterson, youth activities chair. Pictured from left to right are Esbeidy Jimenez, Peterson and Elber Lopez.

A friend of mine rarely gets within the shadow of a church steeple. Regularly he explains to me his aversion. His family attended mass each Sunday, the whole family shoved into a single pew, and the priest would personally take the weekly offering. The father had a collection basket on a long pole that he would send down each pew and pull it back “like reeling in white fish,” my friend says. ...