Stories from Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Jean Templeton McVay, former long-time resident of Eureka Springs, passed away June 19, 2018 in Whiting, Iowa at the age of 99. She would have been 100 years old July 2, 2018. She and her husband, Clifton A. McVay operated the McVay Funeral Home and ambulance service at 55 Spring Street in Eureka Springs in the last half of the 1940s. Mr. McVay died in Eureka Springs in 1973...

GENEVA JOYCE (ATCHLEY) MEADOR, of Shoals, Indiana was born March 1, 1929 in Oak Grove, Arkansas to Raymon and Bessie (Minick) Atchley. She departed this life on Saturday, June 30, 2018 in Shoals, Indiana at the age of 89. She was a teacher in Trinity Springs, a substitute teacher for Shoals Community Schools and in her later years was a homemaker. ...

We are in the middle of a two-week dead period for Arkansas high schools, a time in which the Arkansas Activities Association (AAA) mandates that there are to be no organized practices or team camps. While coaches are looking to get better every day, they also know this is an important time of the year...

The Green Forest school board hired Mike Stokes to assist with the football team along with the boys basketball team on Monday, June 18. Stokes has coached at a number of schools throughout his career, but was most recently the principal at Harrison middle school for 12 years. Stokes had retired for a year before deciding to get back into coaching...

Ryan Sanchez was hired to coach the Eureka Springs Lady Highlander basketball team on June 11 and he is already busy getting the team ready for the 2018-19 season. "We have had four practices so far and I had 12 girls on average for each practice," Sanchez said. ...

The city of Eureka Springs continues its work on Flint Street through the beginning of July. The infrastructure repairs began June 4 and are slated for completion soon. In the meantime, the intersections of Flint and Jackson and Flint and North Main are closed, with one-lane traffic running between North Main, First, Armstrong and Douglas streets...

Sage Tresler runs an agility drill at a recent Berryville basketball camp.

Eureka Springs Magician Wyatt Beck performs a special, one-of-a-kind magic show for all three Carroll County Libraries on Monday, July 2nd. The Harry Potter- themed demonstration titled ‘Magic with Professor Phineas Brown’ kept the audience both captivated and in fits of laughter...

The Greater Berryville Area Chamber of Commerce welcomed another new business to town with an official ribbon cutting on Thursday, June 28. It was held at noon at the Sprott, Golden & Bardwell law office, located at 915 W. Trimble Ave. in Berryville. Company officials were joined by staff, family and members of the Berryville Chamber Board for the ribbon cutting...

Before Carol Wright moved to Eureka Springs three years ago, she considered several different areas to relocate. Wright, a member of the City Advertising and Promotion Commission, said she chose Eureka Springs after receiving the visitor’s guide and a handwritten note describing the area...

Rob Hiaasen. Gerald Fischman. John McNamara. Rebecca Smith. Wendi Winters. Those five names might not mean anything to most of you reading this column, but they mean a great deal to me. Those five individuals were the people who were senselessly murdered last week at the office of the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Md. ...

The Carroll County Health Unit will host a back-to-school immunization clinic from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, July 27. To participate in the immunization clinic, please call soon to make an appointment. “Immunizations are an important way to keep us, our families, and our community safe and healthy,” said Lisa Holt, Carroll County Health Unit administrator. ...

Peggy Lodewyks Haas, new president of the Holiday Island Rotary Club, is shown honoring outgoing president Nyle Carrothers with his past president plaque at a banquet June 23 at the Holiday Island Elks Club. Other members were also honored for their service to the club. Keith Williamson was honored for his long-term service to Rotary. The Club meets for breakfast at 8 a.m. every Friday at the Elks Club...

As of June 2018, about 1,600 Arkansans are still waiting for either assessments or reassessments from the Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS) for their home-based care needs. Pulaski County Circuit Court Judge Wendell Griffen ordered Monday, June 25, that, as a result of its “willful defiance” of a previous court order, DHS must publish statistics on its website reflecting the number people it has failed or refused to reassess each month for home-based care needs since the court’s initial ruling on Feb. ...

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who is seeking a second term as the state’s chief executive officer, and challengers Jared Henderson and Mark West engaged in a markedly polite, almost collegial debate on Friday, June 29, in Eureka Springs. The debate was held in conjunction with the Arkansas Press Association’s annual super-convention, and a crowd of approximately 100 journalists and newspaper leaders were on hand to watch at the Inn of the Ozarks...

The editorial staff of Carroll County Newspapers had a strong showing in the Arkansas Press Association’s annual Better Newspaper Editorial Contest, winning a total of 35 awards. For the second consecutive year, the Carroll County News was awarded first place for general excellence among medium-circulation weekly newspapers...

The Eureka Springs Historical Museum hosted its third annual Birthday Stroll on Saturday, June 30. The event commemorates the establishment of Eureka Springs in 1879. This year’s stroll featured actors in period costumes portraying some early citizens of Eureka Springs who resided in the Mearns Park area...