Stories from Friday, May 25, 2018

At its Monday meeting, the Berryville School Board voted to accept a bid for $73,900 from All Phase Construction to move and reassemble the existing home-side bleachers to the visitor side of the new football field. The board also voted to accept a bid of $27,790 from Dunk Fire and Security to repair and replace existing parts of the school’s system that were damaged during a lightning storm at the beginning of May...

Cleva Susan Nancy Ann Smith of Berryville will be celebrating her 100th birthday on Friday, June 1. She said it has been fascinating to see how life in the area has changed over the past century. Smith said she was born and raised in Berryville after her parents had come to the area from Tennessee in a covered wagon...

Berryville students have been getting their hands dirty for a good cause. Berryville High School’s agriculture and Environmental and Spatial Technology (EAST) programs and Berryville Intermediate School’s fifth grade Green Team have volunteered at the Berryville Community Center’s Giving Garden, helping get the garden ready for the summer season...

John and Donna Perkins of Eureka Springs celebrated their 50th anniversary on May 18. The couple married on May 18, 1968, in Eureka Springs.

Twelve Step programs use a terrific phrase that I have adapted for my own spiritual journey. It is found in Step Three: “I make the decision to turn my will and my life over to the care of the God of my understanding.” If Meister Eckhart is correct (and I think he is) that the “only spiritual discipline is surrender,” then this deliberate act of “letting go” holds the key to our personal well-being...

The Green Forest School Board voted at its Monday meeting to approve the purchase of 125 Chromebooks and accessories for $57,912.62. Superintendent Matt Summers said the purchase includes the 125 Chromebooks, five Chromebook charging carts, 90 Dell Optical Mice, and 125 Google Management Licenses. He said all of the funds will come from Title I funding...

Jacob Brown of Berryville earned a 4.0 GPA during the spring 2018 semester at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia and was named to SAU’s President’s List. Brown is a sophomore business administration major from Berryville.

Samantha A Simkins of Green Forest has been named to the Dean’s List for graduate students for the spring 2018 semester at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia. To be named to the Dean’s List, a student must have achieved a 4.0 grade point average for the entire semester...

Araceli Gomez of Berryville and Thelma H. Ponce Gonzalez of Green Forest have been named to the Dean’s List for the spring 2018 semester at Missouri Southern State University in Joplin, Mo. The attached list recognizes full-time students from Missouri Southern who earned a grade point average of 3.75 or above on a 4.0 scale while enrolled in 12 or more hours of credit courses...

Several Carroll County students have been named to the full-time or part-time Dean’s List for the 2018 spring semester at North Arkansas College in Harrison. In order to qualify for the full-time Dean’s List, a student must complete 12 or more semester hours with a grade point average of 3.7 or higher for the semester. ...

The Green Forest City Council voted at a special meeting Tuesday to approve the rezoning of the Country Rooster property from Commercial 1 to Commercial 2. Mayor Charles Reece said the planning and zoning commission recommended the zoning change in the interest of helping the current and future owners and their employees take care of pending business in a timely manner and eliminate unnecessary delays...

The Northwest Arkansas Master Naturalists celebrate the first training class held in Eureka Springs on May 9. The members attended at least 40 hours of combined classroom and field instruction in Arkansas geology, plants, animals and conservation. Local experts involved with instruction include Lilia Beattie, Steven Foster, Patricia and Jim Helwig and Chris Fischer...

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 24, a total of 72 inmates were being housed in the detention center...

Polling Captain Nova Hicks explains how the new, electronic voting machines operate.

The Eureka Springs Parks and Recreation Commission still has some work to do on the new downhill mountain biking trails at Lake Leatherwood City Park. Parks director Justin Huss brought up the idea of a shuttle service at the commission’s regular meeting Tuesday, May 15, saying he had originally hoped to contract that service out using a concessionary agreement. ...

Terry Long of the Eureka Springs Public Works Department is this year’s recipient of the Mike Thomason Wastewater Manager Award. The award was presented at the annual Arkansas Water Works & Water Environment Association conference in Hot Springs on April 29. ...

Lynae Strough (left) was recognized for her 19 years of service to Farm Bureau members as a member service representative for Carroll County Farm Bureau. Randy Veach, president of Arkansas Farm Bureau presented the award at the recent 2018 Arkansas Farm Bureau Member Service Representative Conference in Little Rock. The 113 secretaries receiving awards represented 1,854 years of total service to the counties, ranging from five to 38 years of service...

Getting to the Class 4A state championship match will be an experience both Berryville soccer teams will remember forever. Saturday's matches weren't a fun part of the experience, though, as the two teams were outscored 8-0 at Razorback Field in Fayetteville...

The Green Forest Tigers completed spring football last week and while attendance wasn't where coach Bobby Bishop hoped it would be, he believes the Tigers were able to learn a few things. "We didn't have the best attendance with the soccer team at state and then there were some other things going on," Bishop said. ...