Stories from Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Robert Clay Kile, Sr. of Eureka Springs, Arkansas was born May 11, 1932 in Berryville to Levi and Bertha (Davis) Kile. Robert passed away January 2, 2021 in Harrison at the age of 88. Robert was a member of Church of God Holiness. He enjoyed working on watches, talking on CB radios, and playing the harmonica...

This week's Pets of the Week are Cagney and Lacey.

The Eureka Springs Community Center unveiled its new outdoor walking trail in early December, and it’s already become a popular part of the facility.

I’m not a good mover. I hate it.

From the looks of it, we were all excited to leave 2020 behind us last week.

The Arkansas Legislature will convene Jan. 11 in Little Rock and our own state Sen. Bob Ballinger is likely to be among the more high-profile legislators. A couple of things about that statement — first, I say “our own” because the District 5 seat owned by the citizens of the district and currently occupied by Ballinger represents a large portion of Carroll County, although Ballinger is no longer a resident of the county. ...

Scott Miskiel, interim director of the Eureka Springs Parks and Recreation Department, met for more than two hours on Wednesday, Dec. 23, with parks commissioner Kevin Ruehle and grounds and natural resources manager Dave Renko to review preliminary budget figures for 2021.

The Eureka Springs City Auditorium recently received a $73,707.45 grant through the Arkansas Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. Rick Bright, finance director for the city advertising and promotion commission, said he heard about the grant just before Jan. 1. There was additional funding available through the CARES Act, Bright said, that needed to be spent before the year ended. Bright said the grant specifically targeted convention centers and auditoriums...

Eureka Springs resident McKinley Weems spent a good chunk of his life building things, tearing things down, and finding new uses for the odd bits and bobs left over.  On Saturday, Jan. 2, he celebrated his 100th birthday.  The most well-known project Weems worked on was the Christ of the Ozarks statue on Magnetic Mountain near his hometown. The 67-foot-tall statue — which turns 55 this year — has an arm span of 65 feet and is the largest depiction of Jesus in the United States. ...

A Green Forest man who was arrested in August 2019 after allegedly threatening a circuit court judge suffers from mental disease but has the capacity to understand the legal proceedings against him and to effectively assist in his defense, according to a doctor who examined him last month.

For the past 40 years, Pastor Keith Butler and his wife, Carol, have served the community through their leadership at Church on the Hill in Berryville.

An undisclosed number of Carroll County turkey growers have been informed that their contracts with Butterball LLC will be canceled within 90 days.

According to numbers released by the Arkansas Department of Health on Monday morning, there were 123 new cases of COVID-19 in the county since last week, with no additional deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus and more than 130 reported recoveries.

This listing includes individuals who have been booked into the Carroll County Detention Center. Charges may be reduced or dropped, and individuals are presumed innocent until being found guilty. As of Monday, Jan. 4, a total of 97 inmates were being housed in the detention center...

The Carroll County Quorum Court will push its monthly meetings back by an hour for the next two years.