Stories from Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Missouri-based grocery chain Harter House is in negotiations to open a store in the location formerly occupied by Price Cutter Food Warehouse, a company executive confirmed. Brad Bettlach, who owns Harter House stores in Strafford and Shell Knob, Mo., said Monday that “we are dreaming about putting a store in Berryville.”...

Good Samaritans do exist. Green Forest student Phillip Bowman was worried he wouldn’t see his bicycle again after it was stolen while he was at band practice. “I went to band practice. Thirty minutes before it ended I went outside, and the bike was there,” Phillip said. “Then after band practice, I went outside, and it wasn’t there. I searched around the school premises and it wasn’t there, so I decided to come home. I was quite mad.”...

Eureka Springs Mayor Robert “Butch” Berry is seeking a second term in office. Berry, who was elected in 2014, has filed as a candidate for re-election, Carroll County election coordinator Sherry Cochrane said Monday. Theodore Cottingham has filed as a challenger to Berry for the mayor’s seat...

The key to resilience is relationships. That was one of many lessons Berryville School District staff members took away from a poverty simulation held Wednesday, Aug. 1, in the Bobcat Arena. Bright Futures Berryville organized the training by reaching out to the Bright Futures program in Neosho, Mo...

Voting might be getting a lot more convenient for Carroll County residents. The Carroll County Election Commission voted Friday to approve the Carroll County Vote Center Plan. Vote centers combine multiple precincts and allow residents to vote at any polling site within the county...

I became a Chicago Cubs fan 36 years ago, during the summer of 1982. Like a lot of 12-year-old boys, then and now, I was in love with the game of baseball. And that summer I fell in love with the Cubs for the simplest of reasons: Day baseball. The Cubs played their home games — just as they still do today — at Wrigley Field. ...

Why is this happening? Have the AR DOT people looked at this nine-mile stretch of road between Eureka Springs and the Missouri border? It is recently been asphalted and lines painted. It is one of the best roads to drive on in NW Arkansas.  There are no cracks to fix between Eureka Springs and Holiday Island. They are going to ‘chip and seal’ over the asphalt?... ...

Ms. Jones, The recent asphalt that you mentioned was placed as a leveling coarse that restores the roadway to its original typical section by restoring the crown and removing ruts. Typically this layer averages one inch in depth and adds no structural value to the road. Since we experience crack propagation of about an inch a year and the surface under the leveling coarse was cracked and in need of a surface treatment, the district will typically level a roadway one year prior to sealing it...

Lea Wade, association executive for the Eureka Springs Carroll County Board of Realtors, has announced the selection of B. Kent Turner as the board’s 2018 Realtor of the Year. Turner is a Realtor at Coldwell Banker K – C Realty and serves as president of the Eureka Springs Carroll County Board of Realtors...

Samuel Baker of Holiday Island has been named to the Chancellor's List and Nicholas Engel of Green Forest has been named to the Dean's List for the spring 2018 semester at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. To be named to the Chancellor's List, a student must have completed at least nine credit hours and maintained at least a 3.9 grade point average. To be on the Dean's List, students must have completed at least nine credit hours and earned at least a 3.5 grade point average...

The Carroll County Conservation District has awarded its annual scholarships to Matt Owens, Kelsey Phillips and Keenan Blackburn. All three students are 2018 graduates of Green Forest High School. This scholarship is given annually to Carroll County graduating seniors who are planning to pursue an education in the field of agriculture. Pictured from left to right are CCCD board member Chris Meador, Owens, Phillips and Blackburn...

James Myatt of Cornerstone Bank and Landry Weston of Nighthawk Custom Firearms partake of the breakfast items at First Friday Coffee with the Chamber of Commerce, hosted this month by Kerusso Christian Apparel.

As the school year gets closer, performance time gets closer for the Berryville Marching Band, which is hard at work preparing for another good year.

The Berryville Bobcats have had a week of practice and coach Doug Shott said the team has hit the ground running with some productive practices. "Having visited with all of our kids, I think this is the team that wants to change things to the way it used to be," Shott said. "I know they want to be. They just have to learn to do the things that it takes to get to that point. I believe in all my heart that this group wants to change things around here at Berryville."...

Having depth is an important part of football. The Green Forest Tigers started the week with 13 players and had 19 players suit up at Thursday's practice. The Tigers had 32 players participate during spring football, so coach Bobby Bishop hopes to see that number keep rising by the time school starts...

The Green Forest Tiger golf team only has two players participating this year in Alex Kilbourn and Ashley Farrar. While coach Kyle Farrar said it would be nice to have enough players to have a chance at qualifying for the Class 3A state tournament, Farrar said this will be a great way to work on individual skill sets...