Stories from Friday, June 29, 2018

I have always found it difficult to get into professional soccer. I feel like the main reason is because when I tune in, team A kicks it to team B. That is why I have been surprised at the amount of time I have spent watching the World Cup over the last two weeks. Don't tell the powers that be, but I am watching it at my desk as I type right now...

More than 100 runners showed up Saturday in Green Forest for the Rat Race in honor of Tommy Ratzlaff. Lexington Hilton won the 5K race, finishing in 18:00. Rose Dickinson was the first female finisher in 20:08. Dakota Fritts was the second-place male finisher in 19:19 and Jonathon Wood was the third-place male finisher in 21:22. Trista Killingsworth was the second-place female finisher in 22:04 and Renee Hunter was the third-place female finisher in 22:16...

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, June 28, a total of 84 inmates were being housed in the detention center...

Employees of Jimmy Jones’ Heavy Constructors recently excavated, formed up and poured concrete for a culvert under a parking lot on Main Street in Eureka Springs, where a large sinkhole had recently formed.

Imagine that tomorrow you awake to find $1,440 deposited into your bank account. That’s not enough to make you rich, but it’s a nice chunk of change. On the following morning — and the morning after that — you discover the same windfall again. After a week of such deposits you would have more than $10,000...

Carroll County Extension Homemakers’ Council was represented by (from left) vice president Cheryl Hattenhauer, reporter Rosa Thomas, Venita Summers, president Charlene Guidotti and family and consumer science extension agent Tamara Allen at the Arkansas State Extension Homemakers’ Council (AEHC) Convention in Hot Springs the first week of June. ...

Rosa Thomas of Green Forest was honored for 50 years of service at the Arkansas Extension Homemakers Council (AEHC) Convention on June 5 in Hot Springs. Thomas received her 50-year pin and a certificate of achievement for being a 50-year member of the EHC. She has served twice as president, once as vice president and twice as reporter of the Carroll County Extension Homemakers Council. She is also the president of the Busy Bees EHC...

All revenue from the Lake Leatherwood City Park tax will be staying where it is. On Monday night, the Eureka Springs City Council voted to keep the revenue under the parks commission’s authority. The council heard from city finance director Lonnie Clark and parks director Justin Huss before making the decision, with Clark saying the tax money is moved into a fund managed by parks each month. Huss said the revenue is kept apart from other funds...

The long-awaited transition of Carroll County’s 911 and central dispatch services to a new location at the same building that houses the county sheriff’s office and detention center should happen sooner rather than later, the county’s quorum court was told during its June meeting on Monday...

Community engagement specialist April Griffith wore a black dress covered in swirling moons, clouds and stars as she leaned over the library table displaying moon and meteorite rocks. Griffith explained to three children how meteorites enter our atmosphere. Rocks usually burn up in our atmosphere, she said, but when they are made of strong enough material, the rocks fall to the Earth, becoming meteorites...

A Missouri woman died after a one-vehicle accident in Carroll County on Friday, June 22, and the driver of the vehicle is being held in the Carroll County Detention Center on multiple charges including negligent homicide. According to a preliminary fatal crash summary from the Arkansas State Police, Neal S. ...