Stories from Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Capitola Irene (Edmondson) Pyatt of Eureka Springs, born February 16, 1920, in Grandview to Charlie “Stout” and Clara Edmondson passed away Saturday, November 3, 2018 in Eureka Springs. She was a homemaker and was retired from Ocoma Foods in Berryville. She was a member of the Rock Springs Baptist Church...

Carroll County Judge Sam Barr was re-elected Tuesday, defeating Green Forest Mayor Charlie Reece. Former Berryville police officer Jim Ross was elected sheriff over Carroll County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Mark Bailey, and Connie Doss unseated longtime County Clerk Jamie Correia...

ELLIS LOWELL NORRIS, a resident of Springdale, Arkansas was born October 1, 1938, in Kingston, Arkansas, son of Tom and Kate (Edgmon) Norris. He departed this life October 30, 2018 in Fayetteville, Arkansas at the age of 80 years.

Berryville High School senior Georgia Belle Patterson has won a 2018 4-H Congress Scholarship. She said she qualified for the scholarship after being named a 2018 Advanced 4-H Record Book Winner by the Arkansas State 4-H Office in April and learned she would receive the scholarship in October. She said the exact amount of the scholarship has not been mentioned yet...

To Whom It May Concern This is an open request to my elected officials of Carroll County to do the right thing and act upon serving per written request for Randy Mayfield to surrender his resignation and officiating capacity as Sheriff, following his “appalling abhorrent bigoted remark” toward District 3 JP Lamont Richie Eureka Springs.Prosecuting Attorney and County Judge “do have the authority” to implement this...

Green Forest senior Lexington Hilton, pictured in a meet from 2017, won the Class 3A state cross country championship on Friday in Hot Springs. Hilton ran the 5,000-meter course in 16 minutes and 38.8 seconds. See complete coverage in Sports on Page 8...

The Green Forest High School gifted and talented (GT) students are planning to fund their own trip to the Youth Education Series (YES) at Disney World in Orlando next June. Program sponsor Laine Smith said the fundraising goal is $23,000 for 21 students to attend the trip. She said Disney’s YES program takes educational concepts and applies them in the park...

Editor’s note: This is the first in a three-part series on the veterans of Carroll County. World War II veteran Rocky Whiteley will never forget that frigid, windy night over Alaska. He and Captain Charles Mundy needed to land their plane, but it wasn’t looking good. The whole landing strip was covered in ice, Whiteley said...

Carroll County Sheriff Randy Mayfield fired Chief Deputy Maj. George Frye on Monday, Frye confirmed. “I have been terminated, and I’m reviewing my options,” Frye said. Mayfield did not return messages on his office and cell phone. The firing came on Frye’s first day at work after a weeklong vacation and less than a week after former District 3 Justice of the Peace Lamont Richie’s resignation. ...

The Berryville Bobcats and their fans celebrate after beating Green Forest 43-6 in the Carroll County Super Bowl on Friday at Bobcat Stadium.