Stories from Friday, November 9, 2018

Green Forest’s junior high football team put the finishing touches on an 8-2 season last Thursday with a 20-6 victory over Elkins. Bryan Soto scored two touchdowns and Barrett Phillips added another touchdown as Green Forest fought back from an early 6-0 deficit...

The Berryville Lady Bobcats won 32 games last season and advanced to the state tournament semifinals for the third consecutive year — with one senior on the roster. To say expectations are high for this year’s team would be a bit of an understatement. And that’s just fine with the Lady Bobcats...

By Scott Loftis CarrollCountyNews@cox-internet.com Green Forest cross country coach Bradley James says senior Lexington Hilton has just one speed in practice: fast. His race-day speed is even faster. On Friday, Hilton won the Class 3A boys individual championship, covering a muddy 5,000-meter course in Hot Springs in a time of 16:38.80 to win by seven seconds over the runner-up at the state championships...

Before his team faced Green Forest in Friday’s Carroll County Super Bowl, Berryville coach Doug Shott predicted that if his team played to its potential everything would turn out just fine for the Bobcats. He was right.

A Eureka Springs man was killed Thursday morning in a one-vehicle accident in Holiday Island. According to a preliminary report from the Arkansas State Police, Nicholas R. Godard, 34, was driving a 2006 Honda northbound on State Line Road west of Summit Drive at 6:40 a.m. when he lost control of the vehicle in a curve. The vehicle crossed the center line and ran off the road, striking an electric pole, according to the report...

Eureka Springs High School senior Hayden Nance, son of Diana and Johnny Nance,  has been named the Eureka Springs Rotary Student of the Month for September 2018. Nance is a National Honor Society Gold Renaissance student and maintains a 3.9 GPA.  Nance’s hobbies are drawing and making short films. His art is displayed on the Art Wall in Downtown Eureka Springs. He has had work displayed at Brews and has received first place two years in a row at the Youth Advisory Council  (YAC) art competition for charity. ...

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, Nov. 8, a total of 89 inmates were being housed in the detention center...

“We all know things are bad — worse than bad, they’re crazy,” began the fictional Howard Beale in the film entitled, “Network.” An emotionally disturbed news anchor whose life had begun to unravel, Beale revitalizes his career by “articulating popular rage.”...

Jason F. Tennant, president and chief lending officer at Cornerstone Bank, has announced the promotion of George Purvis to the position of VP/facilities director and special assets/appraisal coordinator for the bank. “George has been an asset and ambassador for our bank as he has shown his commitment and is most deserving of this promotion,” Tennant said in a news release...

Rhonda L. Thomas of Berryville was recently awarded a Mentored Signature Experience Research Grant from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. The grant is designed to inspire UALR undergraduate students to conduct research and design creative projects that will enrich their academic experience, Thomas’ research project will span the 2018-19 academic year under the tutelage of Dr. Heidi Skurat Harris, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, College of Social Sciences and Communication...

The Green Forest Education Foundation held a Trivia Night fundraiser on Tuesday and awarded scholarships to Green Forest High School seniors. Pictured are (front row, from left) Allison Fancher, Trinity McMahan, Miranda Harms, (back row) Carter Boggs and Rhett Powell. Fancher, McMahan, Harms and Boggs were selected at random and received $500 scholarships. Powell received a $200 scholarship for being a part of the winning team...

The Carroll County Youth Leadership Academy (YLA) kicked off last Tuesday, Oct. 30, and local freshmen have begun setting goals not only for the leadership program but also for their futures. Family and consumer science (FCS) agent Tamara Allen said the Carroll County Cooperative Extension Service is hosting the program to teach participating freshmen about themselves, their community, local needs and local issues. ...

The Berryville City Council voted Tuesday to approve Ordinance 1043, which sets the salary for the city attorney at $26,000 per year, effective Jan. 1, 2019. Mayor Tim McKinney said the council had raised the salary a year or two ago and wanted city attorney Clint Scheel to know they appreciate his work...

Editor’s note: This is the second in a three-part series on the veterans of Carroll County. When he entered the Navy in 1968, Mike Warkentin was promised three things: healthcare, education and a place to be buried. Today, Warkentin said, those services are disappearing. There’s not much more space at the Fayetteville National Cemetery, Warkentin said, and the United States Department of Veterans Affairs doesn’t serve everyone it should...

Carroll County Judge Sam Barr was elected to a sixth term in Tuesday’s general election, defeating Green Forest Mayor Charlie Reece. In final but unofficial results, Barr received 4,663 votes (52.2 percent) while Reece got 4,269 votes (47.7 percent). The outcome was a repeat of the 2016 race, when Barr received 57 percent of the vote...