Stories from Friday, May 18, 2018

Berryville Elementary School recently held a Scholastic Book Fair.

The Green Forest School District will have some new faces next year. At a special called meeting Thursday, May 10, the board accepted the resignations of Kay Comer, high school social studies teacher, Josh Dale, coach and science teacher, and Allyson Hartwick, kindergarten teacher...

Holiday Island Elks Lodge 1042 recently honored Brittney Halper (center) as its Eureka Springs Student of the Year. She is pictured with her mother (left) and Elks Youth Program Director Linda Peterson. Harper received a certificate and a check from the Holiday Island Elks Lodge 1041 during a recent dinner honoring students and their families and associates. (Submitted photo)...

During the (2017) Arkansas General Assembly we were constantly told to, “telephone your congressman,” “write your legislator,” “talk to your senator.” So, on Wednesday, March 15, I got in my car and headed to the Capitol at 5:00 o’clock in the morning. On that day, a legislative house committee was scheduled to vote on a “do pass” or “don’t pass” on SB373...

While Bob Ballinger is out campaigning, Bryan King is out slandering his opponent and literally begging voters to give him his retirement term, a term he absolutely does not deserve for his divisive, factually inaccurate tactics. At the end of the day, one thing is certain as far as public records go, one state representative showed up to do the job he was elected to do and another state senator has not.  Bryan King has ghosted voters for far too long on the important issues facing Arkansas.  As a farmer, Bryan King only cares about one farmer and that’s Bryan King.  If elected, Bob Ballinger will serve the people who he was privileged to be elected by, not dodge votes that end up resulting in excuses being made.  If I stopped showing up for work as many times as Bryan King has in his career, I’d be fired. ...

I am grateful to the Carroll County News for the opportunity to respond to an “article” and editorial comment dated May 8 by Scott Loftis. I’m confident Mr. Loftis and I both support the First Amendment of the US Constitution and Article II Section 6 of the Arkansas Declaration of Rights that protect our Rights of Freedom of Speech and of the Press...

When you or someone you love is dealing with a mental health concern, sometimes it’s a lot to handle. It’s important to remember that mental health is essential to everyone’s overall health and well-being, and mental illnesses are common and treatable...

Rickey and Jeanne (Mitchell) Thompson of Berryville will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on May 24.  They were married in Aldrich, Mo., on May 24, 1968, by Rev. Mercer Thomas. They are both retired after serving many years in the public school system.  They still play active roles in the community by serving and leading in several nonprofit organizations such as Berryville United Methodist Church, the Berryville Community Center, and Loaves And Fishes food bank. They have five children: Deborah (Steve) Hinton of Cypress, Texas; Becca (Aaron) Cusher of Edmond, Okla.; Nancy (James) Green of VanCleave, Miss.; Adam (Bonny) Thompson of Carthage, Mo.; and Matt (Jessica) Thompson, of Diamond, Mo. ...

Berryville Rotary Club president Johnice Dominick (left) welcomes new member Carla Mann. Mann is the director of the Carroll County Senior Activity and Wellness Center. (Submitted photo)

It’s time to lace up your running shoes and start stretching those hamstrings, because the challenge has been thrown down:  Who will step up to take home the title as champion of the Annual 5K Race and winner of the ‘Corporate Challenge’ at the 33rd Annual Ice Cream Social in this year in Berryville ?...

By Kelby Newcomb CCNNews@cox-internet.com When Tyson Foods announced plans for a new 200,000-square-foot facility in Green Forest, the Green Forest School District began preparing for the possibility of rising enrollment numbers. So far, said Superintendent Matt Summers, the growth at the district has been pretty steady...

By Samantha Jones Citizen.Editor.Eureka@gmail.com Kevan Flowers has never known life without farming, and it certainly shows. Flowers and his family were recently named Carroll County’s 2018 Farm Family of Year. Flowers said he’s honored to see his family’s hard work recognized in such a major way...

This listing includes individuals who are booked into the Carroll County Detention Center. Charges may be reduced or dropped, and individuals are presumed innocent until being found guilty in court. As of Thursday, May 17, a total of 74 inmates were being housed in the detention center...

With the help of the Leader in Me program, students at Eureka Springs Elementary School are learning all about what it means to work as a team. Fourth-grade students Yaretsi, Kameron, Madeline and Anastasia gave the Citizen an exclusive tour of their school last week, highlighting the different parts of the program. ...

Grace Windle, a senior English major from Eureka Springs, was recently named to the dean’s list for grades achieved during the spring 2018 semester at Harding University in Searcy. To be eligible for the dean’s list at Harding, a student must be carrying 12 or more hours with a 3.65 or higher grade-point average and no incompletes...

The Eureka Springs City Council isn’t getting rid of plastic bags just yet. On Monday night, the council heard from citizens concerned about the council’s vote on April 23 to create a proposed ordinance banning plastic bags in the city. Several business owners said it would cost them more to use paper bags, and even that alternative isn’t ideal for the environment...

Five hundred years ago there was a group of Christians living in Europe known as Anabaptists. These are not to be confused with today’s Baptists, though the groups do share some points of common history. The name Anabaptist was not so much a description as it was a condemnation...

Calvary Christian Academy in Berryville has announced its final honor roll for the 2017-18 school year. Students named to the Pastor’s List (95-100 percent) were Sarah Best, Wyatt Clark, Mariah Cornell, Carson Estrada, Ariana Ines, Gabriel Ines, Matthew Ines, Huy Le, Ellie Villines, Lainey Villines and Tag Villines...

Rhonda L. Thomas of Berryville received two awards from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Department of Rhetoric and Writing during the 2018 Department Writing Awards Ceremony. The ceremony, which celebrates and showcases the work of talented writers, was held Friday, May 4, in Little Rock. Thomas received the Donna Barkan Jensen Writing About Families Undergraduate Scholarship and a second award for her paper, Grant Writing: An Analysis of the Genre...

Mary-Kennedy Jackson of Berryville High School is the recipient of this year’s Berryville Rotary Club Scholarship. She is pictured with Rotarian Doug Carr. Mary-Kennedy, daughter of Judge Scott Jackson and Missy Jackson, will attend the University of Central Arkansas in Conway this fall...

Attorneys for a Carroll County man accused of murdering his autistic older brother in January 2017 filed a flurry of pretrial motions in Carroll County Circuit Court on Thursday morning. Among the 114 pages of motions are requests to transfer 19-year-old Joseph Ian Santiago’s case to juvenile court, to suppress evidence collected after what defense attorneys argue is an unlawful arrest and to bar the prosecution from showing crime-scene photos to the jury. ...

Postal carriers in Berryville did their part during a national food drive last weekend. The local carriers collected 2,673 pounds of food on the their routes, Berryville postmaster James Lucas said, as part of the National Association of Letter Carriers’ annual food drive...

A Berryville resident has filed a class-action lawsuit seeking an injunction that would bar the collection of an $18 fee in six north Arkansas counties included in the Ozark Mountain Solid Waste District. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Carroll County Circuit Court by attorneys Matt Bishop and Wendy Howerton on behalf of Paul Summers, names the solid waste district as defendant. ...

From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible was read on the steps of the Church in the Grove at the Great Passion Play in Eureka Springs during the 9th Annual Carroll County Bible Reading Marathon. More than 130 people participated in the marathon, which began May 3 and continued until May 10...