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Scout Clean Energy hosted the first of two planned open-house events on Tuesday, April 11, at the Berryville Community Center to address residents’ concerns over the company’s planned wind-turbine development near Green Forest. Scout, based in Boulder, Colo., plans for its “Nimbus” project to expand over approximately 9,000 acres — about 14 square miles — in Carroll County, much of it along County Road 905 southeast of Green Forest.

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.