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Who doesn’t love curling up with a good mystery book full of plot twists that keeps you on the edge of your seat … or saddle? As part of a new series featuring local authors, the Friends of the Berryville Library will be hosting “Murder with a Local Twist,” celebrating local authors Jane Elzey (The Cardboard Cottage Mystery series) and Amber Camp (the Horse Rescue Mystery series). The free event will be held at 6 p.m. Monday, April 24, at the Carroll Electric Community Room in Berryville.

To create more opportunities for farmers interested in growing fresh fruits and/ or vegetables wholesale, the Northwest Arkansas Land Trust announces a lease program at NWALT Farms-Berryville. The program offers qualified farmers a sublease agreement for one of three 15-acre tracts of farmland on a 100acre property in Berryville.

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After a deadly tornado struck the northeast Arkansas town of Wynne on March 31, a team of Tyson Foods employees went to work to help residents there recover. As part of Tyson’s Meals That Matter program, the company dispatched several teams of employees to prepare and distribute food in Wynne.

Berryville Schools Superintendent Owen Powell said if Mother Nature was going to pick a district building to damage in last week’s storms, she picked the right one. “If we could’ve picked a building for it to hit that would’ve been the one,” Powell said of an older building used for storage which had its roof ripped off during a severe storm on Wednesday, April 5.